LilBlossom..our flowerbeds were already established when we moved here in 2005, complete with 1980's scallopped brick edgers. One flowerbed is over 5 ft. wide and I have to have stepping stones laid out to get to the back of the flowerbeds. Don't make your flowerbed too wide. Mine are straight and boring. We live in a gated community and can only have foundation flowerbeds and I think I know the reason the one flowerbed is 5 ft. wide, because if made 4 ft. wide, there would have been a foot of grass for the landscaping people to mow, next to the sidewalk, so the original owners got permission to extend the flowerbed beside the garage to the sidewalk. I would like to have some curved beds, but that is more trouble and work, so I stick to the straight, boring existant flowerbeds; scallopped pavers and all! If we took up the scallopped pavers, I'd have to find a way of getting rid of them or move them elsewhere to other beds(like the flowerbeds in back of house)and that means digging trenches for them. It's a lot of extra work so they are going to stay where they are for now.