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Getting your outdoor lighting right will make a huge difference to your garden. From providing additional security, to illuminating paths and accenting your garden features, lights can completely change the mood, look and feel of any outside space.

Let there be light! Garden lighting is easy to overlook, but the right outdoor lighting system can completely transform your outside space – from increasing safety and practical night time garden navigation, to adding mood and texture to the space.

Autumn is here, and as the weather starts to turn, its a great time to look at cost-effective ways to protect your car from the elements over the colder, wetter months ahead. If you are lucky enough to have a driveway, but dont have a garage, then carports can provide an easy, cost effective alternative that will provide year round protection for your vehicle.

Ok, so it might only be October, but winter is coming “ and if the newspaper reports are to be believed, it could be one of the coldest weve had in a generation or more!

With summer ending, theres never been a better time to explore the idea of enhancing and developing your outside space, so you can make better use of it all year round. This month, well show you how you can add value to your home, extend the outdoor entertaining season and protect your car from the elements with high quality, cost-effective patio covers and carports from Palram.

You might think its a little early to start thinking about barbecues and long summer days spent enjoying the garden “ but think again! Spring is nearly here, and theres never been a better time to start preparing for 2015s ˜bbq summer (you read it here first!). To celebrate, we look through three of our favourite garden furniture ranges from UK manufacturer Hartman.

Summer has come to an end and the nights are already drawing in, but that doesnt mean you cant continue to enjoy your garden this autumn. Here is a list of five outdoor lighting options to ensure your garden looks as good at night as it does during the day, and that you get the most from it this season.

We can all enjoy our gardens throughout the daylight hours, however when the evening draws in we are often left with restricted views of our outdoor areas.

It's true! Keengardener have selected some of the most popular garden lights and teamed 6 of them with a transformer and enough cable to create the perfect outdoor lighting for your garden.

Solar powered garden lights utilise the light of the sun to provide stored energy through the use of integral batteries by converting sunlight into electricity.