As stars are the light and decoration in the night sky, so are lights in our gardens. Flowers, furniture, accessories, and other plants may all be decorations for our backyard, but lightning is the finishing touch. The cherry on top is letting us enjoy our gardens at any time and making them shine brightly even on the darkest nights. Shining a new spotlight and revealing a different aspect of our garden is possible with proper lighting. But what to use at which place when combined with various plants? Don’t worry because we got you covered!
1. Dangling Rope lighting
Clinging on to the stars analogy rope lighting can shine a spotlight from above. If you don’t wish to disrupt your garden with anything and install elements in, around, or beneath, going up and above is how you handle your situation! Rope lighting can be stringed across, from wall to wall, or a tree to a pole. It can extend in parallel lines, or you can make an intersection. The area above your garden is free for your creative thinking and inspiration!
2. Romantic lanterns
A touch of romance with a hint of Asia could be the oriental infusion your garden needs. Lanterns are versatile, and you can dangle them above your plants, make them float, or plant them firmly beside them. If you wish to provide maximum authenticity, you can use candles and oils inside your lanterns, but we suggest going with a bit modern. Electrical lanterns are easier to maintain, their light is more durable, and you don’t have to worry about any gusts of wind blowing them out.
3. Portable Solar lights
Our gardens are a green, lush, peaceful, and calming oasis. As such, they function as tributes to nature, and we can keep them that way with eco-friendly and quality garden solar lights, installed to help us appreciate the world around us.
Solar lighting pays for itself in the long run, and you can use it anywhere. There’s no need to hustle yourself with wires or batteries, and you can cover each part of your garden. Solar technology has come a long way, and this modern light can shine bright through the night. And if you ever get bored of them, you can always move them to your fancy.
4. Decorative and Security lights
Light can provide several functions, and your garden can become a multi-practic utility. If your garden starts in front of your home, or at its side, you can go for illuminated house numbers, making your decoration begin at the doorstep. The more lights you have, the more secure your home is, because security lights deter burglars. Garden decor can be considered everything around and outside your home, so the options for you to show your creative side only rise, with the area you get to cover!
5. Light up your water
Water reflects light and multiplies the effect. Combining your garden lights with water fountains, streams, and ponds will thus increase the effect you wish to make. Create a fairy tale in your backyard, where lights can flicker over the water surface, creating a mystical, romantic, and fairytale-like atmosphere when you install lights beside and around your water installations. At first glance, water and electricity don’t mix, but modern water lights are all waterproof, so you don’t have anything to worry about.
6. Along the paths
Treat your garden as a sum of individual elements. Plants, beds, furniture, walls, buildings, and paths, can be considered some of the basics, and people forget the latter. Paths guide you and your guests alongside the tale you wish to tell and showcase individual parts of your design. Subtle and adjustable, they can complement the idea you are trying to convey around your pathways, leading inside the deeper parts of your garden. During late nights, they are ideal to safely guide you alongside familiar paths and let you explore wherever you wish to go!
7. Walls and fences
Even more unused space is on bare walls and fences surrounding your garden. Blank canvases stretching around your plants can be ideal surfaces for stringing up outdoor lightning or placing some on top. Walls and fences are usually sturdy, made from wood and or stone, so you can pretty much hang anything you can think of. Decorating the top of the fence, or doing multiple lines across, seeing your walls shine up the first time you light them up will make you appreciate the effort. Such sprawling and spacious surfaces should not be left alone, as they are unused potential!
8. Bambo and wicker lamps
A bamboo stick with a wicker lamp on top is the ideal eco-friendly lamp. Combine it with a solar bulb, and you have a recipe for ecological success. Lightning bamboo sticks are fully portable, durable (because bamboo is used in Asian construction), and eco-friendly. You can use these solar landscape lighting and wooden elements around your garden, complementing your garden design choices and subtly implementing them into your vision. Wicker lamps are handmade from organic materials, so they go well with anything outside your home. They can host lamps, as they can be made in any size or shape imaginable.
9. Furniture lights
Why leave your tables, chairs, pergolas, and garden desks naked? We’ve spoken about unused surfaces and you should change the way you look at your garden elements. Why? Because you’ll discover new and great ways to utilize its potential and shine a bright light in otherwise dim spots. Pergolas are perfect for stringing lights around their poles and above (also across). Tables and chairs can have lighting below them or on the table surface. Imagine a scene where your lit pathway leads you and your guests to your bright dining table in the evening, while a bright pergola welcomes everyone!
Garden lights are there to highlight the synergy of your garden elements. You may have picked the perfect flowers, and correct pots, and mixed them with adequate bushes, but if people can see your handiwork, what’s the point? Even more so if you can see and enjoy it during the quiet nighttime. And that’s when your ideal garden lights come to the rescue!
