That old saying, ‘if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing properly,’ is very applicable to illuminating your garden. Go at it like a bull in a china shop and the result is likely to be as haphazard as your thoughts. If you’re at a loss for ideas or you’re not very good at visualising final results, start a notebook in which you keep magazine pictures, quick sketches, or written descriptions of what it is you wish to attain.

You will soon begin to notice a sort of coherence in the ideas and pictures you’ve collected, discovering what you like in terms of garden design as well as, perhaps even more importantly, the things you don’t like.

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