Outdoor lighting: How to make your garden glow this summer

Whatever your budget, your garden can deliver a soul-stirring, light show

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By night, your whole garden can be a glowing stage with layered in various lighting that’s both ornamental and discreetly practical.

Setting up permanent mains lighting or draping out solar luminaries, we look at the basics of getting this lighting planted out and flourishing.