Lighting Your Garden

by | May 4, 2019 | Home design

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You’ve spent a great deal of time preparing the garden in your yard. Now, it’s time to illuminate it so that you can clearly see when someone tries to damage it at night and to keep people from stepping on the garden when they visit your home or when your family is outside. When you begin looking for a garden post light, consider the size of the space that you want to illuminate as well as the designs of light fixtures that you enjoy.

If you don’t want to worry as much about turning lights off and on or about whether the lights will impact your utility bill, then consider solar lights. You can get these lights to use as a garden post light instead of positioning them in the ground. There are numerous designs to choose from including butterflies, fairies, shapes, and flowers.

When you position the lights in your garden, you can put them around a pathway to illuminate areas where people should and shouldn’t walk or as a way to highlight areas of your garden, such as certain flowers. Larger garden lights can be positioned so that they shine on the front of your home or the back of your home, offering more protection for your family as more lights can act as a deterrent to crime. Create a beautiful and unique lighting design by placing bulbs inside hollow logs. The logs can then be positioned in various areas around your garden as a way to brighten the area and as a way to make a clear pathway. There are also larger planters that you can get for taller flowers and plants that you want to keep together because they are of one certain kind instead of planting them in the ground and putting them in the same area of your garden.