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Because solar lights are increasingly in demand, manufacturers are vying with each other to produce more beautiful and sophisticated accessories for garden lighting. It is no longer just a question of purchasing your lights from a well-known manufacturer. Instead, careful comparison of wares and prices is necessary in order to avail of the best possible equipment for the value of your money.
It would seem a good option to have your landscape done by a professional. However, not all people are inclined to do that, for some reason or another. Some would rather take the risk of doing their garden lighting on their own. In such a case, there are guidelines that can help them.
1. Get a good picture of your garden as it exists now
Devote the two days you have on a weekend to tidying up your garden. Remove plants that you won't be wanting in your new landscape. Get your garden into the state that they should be in when the lights are installed. Once complete, you can get a clearer notion of what types of lights to use and where to locate them.
After cleaning out weeds and unwanted plants, step back and take a good look at your garden. Flower beds may need to be reshaped as they were originally or given a new flair. Don't mind the trees as yet. Those are slow-growing plants that won't significantly change in shape after the lights are installed. It is enough that you know they are there.
2. Think about the places you have to accent or mark
Wherever you see a spot in the garden that seems isolated from the rest, you should bring it into the big picture by placing accent lights there. You wont have to alter anything either just to make the area project itself; no shrubs to plant or uproot, no foliage to cut off. The accent lights will do it all.
Accent lights consume the least amount of power because the light they provide is subdued and they have fewer LED crystals to consume the power.
Accent lights are not only aesthetically useful, but they also serve to mark areas in your garden that you need to remember for some reason. It may be that the garden faucet is located there. Alternatively, the area may present some danger to people who have seen your garden for the first time. For instance, accenting a large rose bush with lots of prickly thorns makes it easier for you to warn your guests about it. It will also help them to remember just where that danger location is,.
3. Light up the garden paths
Path lights project a brighter light than accent lights do. They may be LED lights on short metal rods that you will need to stick into the earth alongside the path. Alternatively they could be small solar rocks.
4. Use LED lights to focus on things
Focus lights need to be brighter than accent or path lights. The reason being that focus lights will have to draw the attention of your guests to a notable feature of your garden, such as a fountain, or to exotic and expensive plants that you may have. If you have beautiful orchids or a strip of rose bushes that are rare, you should highlight them with focus lights.
5. Install spotlights
Spotlights are one of the most powerful LED garden lights. They also cost more than accent or focus lights. They may be attached to a metal stand that is driven into the ground. Alternatively, could be fixed onto walls.
Your spotlight(s) serve to unify your garden lighting. When these lights are on, they should illumine most of garden. Because they need to brighten larger portions of the landscape, these lights are more powerful. The result of that is that their batteries can lose power fast.
