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paint. Paint is formulated to provide
rich, beautiful colour - but don’t
expect it to do a primer’s job. High
quality primers are rich in resin and
provide a firm base for paint to
adhere.
Here’s a little secret from the
pros: By tinting your primer
towards your paint colour, you’ll
use less paint - plus get all the
benefits of priming. Just ask your
paint store or home centreassociate
to add the same colourant they use
to mix your paint.
Remember, if you want to paint
like a pro, prime like a pro.
THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2008. PAGE 27.
(MS) — For gardeners
everywhere, finding enough
landscape to start a dream garden is
often a big hurdle to clear.
Unless you live on a farm or own
a large amount of property, your
landscape is likely more limiting
than you’d prefer.
But a lack of landscape doesn’t
mean you can’t have the lush garden
you’ve always dreamed of. Instead,
it simply means you’ll have to pull a
few tricks out of your gardener’s cap
to get the most out of the land you
do have.• Use containers: Containergardening has grown especiallypopular in recent years, as the size ofmost people’s yards has shrunkthanks to more building throughoutthe country’s suburbanneighbourhoods. Plant whatever
you’d like in containers, which take
up less space than a traditional
garden and also offer more
flexibility, as the containers can be
moved around at will.
Containers can also be moved
around for parties or placed at
different places in the yard if you’d
like your landscape to have a
different look every now and then.
• Consider the colour: Much like
the paint you choose for a room can
give the illusion of that room being
bigger or smaller than it really is, the
colour of your garden can offer a
similar illusion.
The colour blue is known for
making gardens look larger than
they are, so keep these cooler
colours at the back of the garden to
give the impression that they are
more distant.
Consult with a local gardening
professional, be it your landscaper
or a salesman at a nearby gardening
supply store, for advice on which
plants will best match your needs.
• Build up, rather than out: A
raised bed for your garden won’t
take up as much space, but will still
allow you enough room for an
attractive, landscape-
complementing garden. Some can
even be built atop moveable
structures, making them similar to
container gardening with respect to
their flexibility.
Follow
the pro’s
painting
secrets
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Lack of landscape doesn’t
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