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outlandish colour adds an instant sense of style.
Here’s a handy hint: in a small garden, painting your fences white works a treat.
Not only does it boost light levels for your plants, it makes the area look bigger.
Varying the heights of plants will add depth and interest, and, strangely, make your garden look bigger, disguising the edges and pulling the eye to the centre.
The aim is to hide where your boundary begins and ends.
It’s an evolving process, so there’s no need to worry about getting it right straightaway.
As time goes on, you might want to fill a bald-looking spot with a new plant — plug these gaps with annual flowers for the season and tinker as your plants mature.
There’s also the option of hanging plants. to hook over a fence or balcony rail.
Securing coloured pots in a pattern across a wall is an excellent way to add interest and increase growing space.
Climbing, quick-growing evergreen plants such as jasmine are perfect for old fences and boring expanses of wall.
Try throwing in a bit of honeysuckle or clematis for good measure — they will magically make your garden smell like a posh perfume department in spring and summer, but they’ll also make it look as if it’s been there for a long time.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, your plants will need something to climb up.
Stretching lengths of wire along your fence or wall horizontally, at regular intervals, is the answer.
Fixing a trellis to the top of a fence will add height and support, too.
A bit of honeysuckle and clematis will magically make your garden smell like a posh perfume department in spring and summer.
Milk churns. Old barrels. Boring plastic pots painted bright colours with exteriorpaint tester pots.