January 23, 2013

illuminate your landscape


It’s the time of year when our days are short and the nights are long. Why not try landscape lighting to illuminate your home? I have seen a trend to incorporate lighting into the landscape plan because my clients can see the benefits.  Lighting can do many things for your landscape. Although the benefits this time of year are obvious, landscape lighting can be amazing in the summer too!

My top 5 list of lighting benefits:

  1. It will give visitors a visible path to your front door and helps with safety during those dark nights and mornings.
  2. Extends the hours you will enjoy your landscape
  3. Illuminates features in your landscape such as trees, shrubs and structures
  4. Creates ambience for your outdoor entertaining
  5. Creatively crafted lights can be decorative features in and of themselves

There are many different styles of lights available: up-lights, wall lights, path lights and down-lights, brick lights and even lights that can be submerged in water.

To make things easy low voltage landscape lighting can be installed with a controller that allows you to set the time of day that lights turn off and on.


In recent years LED landscape lighting has been added to the lighting options. This alternative significantly reduces energy consumption without losing the great effects that lighting brings.

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