Get your outdoor setup looking lovely with our tips on the best materials and methods for installing outdoor string lights.

“A string is just a loop drawn in space”, offers Lee Smolin, in Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001). It is not made of material at all. It is what material is.

As lawn and garden equipment goes, none seems to have as many names as the noble weed trimmer — aka weed wacker, weed eater, weed cutter, string trimmer, strimmer or, in some circles, brush ...