Author: Staff

Outdoor spaces have a way of quietly letting us know what we did wrong. An algae-covered patio, a driveway with tire tracks, and a fence that no one wanted to be gray. These things don’t break all at once; they slowly go away. In the UK, where the mornings are damp and the winters are long, outdoor maintenance is less about making things look nice and more about keeping them from falling apart. Most people remember when they first saw it. The first warm weekend in April, maybe, when garden chairs come out and the stone under them looks new.…