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Five ways to ready your garden for a party
Company's coming! Here's how to spruce up your garden
**1**. Turn a dark corner into an outdoor room by laying down random flagstone, combined with some decorative pale pebbles and stones. A small table and a couple of chairs, a large urn and perhaps a sculpture will immediately give this shady spot function and appeal.—*Philip Nortjé, PNLAdesign, Black Point, NS*
**2**. Bring your garden to life at night with easy-to-install solar or low-voltage lighting. Well-placed path lights provide a romantic stroll, while uplights illuminating accent trees add drama.—*Philip Nortjé, PNLAdesign, Black Point, NS*
**3**. Go to your local garden centre and buy some lush flowering annuals or perennials in pots or hanging baskets, the more the better, to freshen up entryways and seating areas and fill in gaps in the garden.—*Marius de Bruyn, Aesthetics + Design, Oakville, ON*
**4**. Paint or stain a weathered old fence, preferably in a dark shade. This can make a big improvement to a fence made of pressure-treated wood.—*Joel Loblaw, Earth Inc. Designed Landscapes, Toronto*
**5**. Injecting a “hard” element such as an urn, sculpture or bird bath into a flower bed will change
the composition and interest within the space.—*Stuart Webster, Stuart Webster Design Inc., Montreal*
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