How to Create a Perfect Landscape Ring
This tutorial is part of our Lamp Post Makeover project. If you read that post, you'll remember that our old lamp post stuck crookedly up out of an unruly bed of growth contained by a lopsided "circle" of rocks.
Once we pulled out all of the old growth and removed the stones, we saw that the lamp post wasn't even centered in the "circle."
Since the original circle wasn’t quite circular, and since the post wasn’t centered in the not-quite-perfect circle, Handan put her brain in gear and came up with a good plan for a wider perfect circle with the lamp past in the exact center. She tied a rope around the lamp post, ensuring that the knot was loose, so the rope could turn about the post without winding. She then secured the other end to an edger.
We removed the sod, leveled the area with some patio base, and then I started laying in the landscape bricks. In order to keep the perfect circle with the bricks, I used the same rope that Handan used for the edger. Each time I laid a brick, I pulled the rope over the center to see if the rope was perpendicular to the brick. And that's all it took to get a perfect circle of bricks!
You can see all the process pictures to illustrate how we created a perfect landscape ring on our blog. 
If you'd like, check out our other outdoor projects like this DIY waterdrop solar light. It is very easy to make and delightful to watch at night.
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Thanks for reading!
-Greg
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I was kind of hoping your hostas would come back... were they used elsewhere? The end result looks amazing.. Now I'm heading over to see the teardrop thingy.. can't wait to read all about it!
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Thank you very good idea. Amazing beautiful
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Just beautiful! Does your lamp come on automatically? I have a lamp like that but I can't figure out how to turn it on! I was told there is a switch but was never shown. Thanks for sharing!