Outdoor lighting extends the time that you can spend enjoying your garden by allowing you to appreciate your plants and water features after dark. In winter, outdoor Christmas lighting is a nice way to spruce up your winter landscape design, especially as this is the most difficult time of year to keep the landscape interesting.
All year round, simple spotlight can do wonders. Picture a sundial, rising up out of a blanket of snow, or gleaming from the dark on an evening when crickets fill the air with summer song. That little highlight can make the garden into a wonderland all year round.
Of course, outdoor garden lighting is what you'll want during the summer months. But for outdoor garden lighting, you'll probably want more subtle, decorative lights rather than spotlights. The idea is to be able to enjoy your garden more fully, rather than to show it off to others. You'll want to install a garden bench and enjoy the ambience while dining outdoors.
In the summer, you can enjoy candles at night by setting tea lights in decorative containers so they can't be knocked over. Coloured glass holders give a fairytale gleam while tin holders with star, flower and moon shapes cut out of them cast bright lights in the appropriate shape, like a medieval disco ball!
To double the effect, put candles near mirrors. If you are eating outdoors, small hand mirrors packed with candles on the table make a stunning display, or set your tea lights on rocks and put a piece of shiny metal, or even tinfoil, behind and under them, to increase their light power.
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