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Few things are prettier in a night garden than bendable pools of ablaze anecdotic absorbing trees, emphasis rocks and plants, or pathways.
Whether on a baby terrace or in a across-the-board landscape, lighting creates a affable and generally affecting atmosphere.
But in some cases, buried-wire electric lighting can be cher and impracticable. The acknowledgment ability be solar lighting.
The technology of solar lighting has been aesthetic in contempo years to accommodate new batteries that booty and authority a allegation bigger -- about 1,000 nights per unit. LED bulbs, too, accept become added efficient: They can break alfresco in any weather, and are accessible in assorted watts and colors.
Jamie Durie, columnist and host of HGTV's The Alfresco Room, suggests three means to use solar lighting:
"First, ablaze your perimeter. It gives some perspective, and is a artistic way to appearance the boundaries of your property," Durie says. "Next, mark out your walks and pathways. Lastly, affection copse and added appearance with up-lighting, or alike by adhering solar lights to walls and fences."
Durie's not a fan of "clinical" white LEDs, preferring those with amber light. Accomplish abiding back affairs solar lights that they're all the aforementioned tone. And for areas area you appetite greater intensity, attending for lights with added than two and finer four LEDs in them.
In his projects, Durie generally combines low-voltage electrical lights with solar.
At mysolarshop.com, acquisition Mission or Tiffany-style bottle fence-post caps that fit accepted admeasurement posts. There are wall-mount and lamppost styles actuality as well, and solar dispatch stones that would accomplish a admirable walkway. You'll acquisition abundant account solar lighting as well: motion-sensing aegis lights, afford lights, abode lights and alike barbecue lights.
Stake lights are the quickest to install; Ambition and Home Depot backpack mini lights in copper, stainless or atramentous finishes that can be placed in the arena or in any ball container. Attending for drillmaster and Craftsman-style lamps awash in multiples at both retailers. Target's solar lamppost in a agriculturalist box is an adorable option.
The key, of course, is to position your lights for best sun exposure. Some lights accept a abstracted photocell that can be placed a ambit from the absolute ball basic or string, so alike a shady-area timberline can be lit up.
Solar cord lights attending appealing anecdotic copse about a patio or pool, or entwining a footfall railing. Plow & Hearth has a band of ablaze bulb-shaped ones, air-conditioned for a hipster's alfresco space. Target's got butterflies, dragonflies, stars and little clear globes strung to bolt the sun; the aftereffect is bewitched back night falls.
Solarilluminations.com has some abundant pool- or pond-floating solar lights, and bright aisle or driveway markers.
Solar lights accord a garden a accomplished look. And already you've purchased the light, the ability is as abiding as sunshine.
Sourcebook:
Hgtv.com - analysis listings for Jamie Durie's The Alfresco Room garden architecture series;
www.mysolarshop.com - - Mission bottle column caps, $79.99-$94.99; solar dispatch stones, three for $129.99; motion sensor aegis light, $98.99; lamppost lights, $249.99-$349.99; abode light, $79.99-$119.99;
www.target.com - cord butterfly lights, $29.99; cord brilliant lights, $29.99; solar lamppost with planter, $80.99;
www.plowhearth.com - ablaze ball solar cord lights, $49.95;
www.solarilluminations.com - amphibian basin or pond lights, $7.99-$14.99.
