Garden light takes a carefully curated outdoor space and transforms it into a magical nightscape, offering safety along paths and highlighting features with a warm glow. From the use of lighting to define borders to more modern options that wash hedges and walls with light, there is a wide array of ways to enhance a landscape at night.
One of the most common types of garden light are lampposts. These lights are similar to a standard streetlight but designed specifically for garden settings. Often they are installed in the ground and stand tall like a post – hence their name. Lampposts are great for lighting up taller plants and can also be used to highlight features or pathways in a garden design.
Another type of garden lighting are spike lights, which are a little like small spikes that are pushed into the ground at the desired location. These can be mains, battery or solar powered and are a great way to illuminate borders, planters and other hardscape features in your garden at night.
LED (light emitting diode) garden lighting is a newer form of landscape lighting that uses energy efficient bulbs to reduce power consumption and emissions. This kind of lighting is also much cooler in temperature than traditional halogen bulbs so it doesn’t damage foliage, and is ideal for use around plantings.
There are many different styles of garden lighting to choose from, so you’ll be able to find a fitting that is perfect for your garden design. For example, these Stone Globe Lights are disguised as solid stone spheres by day but when they’re lit up they create beautiful orbs that look stunning in any garden border ideas.