Property News · February 2, 2024

Want to transform your garden in a weekend? Try some paint


From black to sorbet-pink, cover your fences, walls and furniture with colour – and your plants will sing against themWell, that really was January, wasn’t it? I hope you survived it relatively intact. Most of my rather gentle new year’s resolutions were either broken within a week or have not yet begun (I vowed to work my way through Rachel Roddy’s An A-Z of Pasta and become a kind of carb champ in the process). But one of them – spend more time in the garden – actually kind of came off. It’s still light at 5pm now, new shoots are appearing and I’m starting to think about the horticultural year ahead.If you’re not quite there yet, it’s a good time for some instant gratification. This is rare in gardening, a pursuit that largely hones patience and delights in anticipation: we sow things three months before they flower, we plant bulbs six months before they bloom, and we put skinny little saplings in the ground knowing decades will pass before they really take up space. But paint? Paint can transform your garden in a weekend. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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