You can still enjoy the beauty of your landscaping after the sun goes down; a few well-chosen and well-placed lights can highlight the most striking parts of your garden as it provides light for your outdoor evening events. An entire bank of floodlights will simply throw a flat glare over your garden, but some simple spotlights that are placed in a strategic manner are elegant and can save cash when it comes to installation as well as consumption. Read on for more tips about the effect of lighting on your landscaping.
When you consider the fact that people need to see the path they’re walking upon, you see that a little low lighting can be an effective and necessary addition to your garden. Solar landscape lights are a great addition to ensure that your guests won’t trip on their way from your house to their cars in the driveway. Be sure that the light is shielded on top to ensure that the light will be directed down, and your guests won’t be blinded. Keep the lights spaced just far enough so that there is no chance that your guests will be able to see the path clearly.
When you’re lighting an area with a larger fixture, be sure that you don’t light the source of the illumination; keep the fixture itself camouflaged with plants or stones, and if the pole is going to be visible, ensure that it’s painted a matte black or slate color–that will ensure that it remains inconspicuous. Glossy fixtures are very conspicuous, and it can draw just as much attention as having a light directed on it.
If you’re trying to highlight flowers, you’ve got some options, but the best way to do it is to mount your light from above; it will replicate the natural light that occurs in the daytime, and you can mount a spotlight from the eaves of your house, the side of your chimney, or form a nearby tree, which would provide natural camouflage.
