Landscape Lighting

A Garden with low-voltage Landscape Lighting can bring a whole new setting to the home and provide the perfect spot for outdoor entertaining. Landscapes emerge at dark under slight lighting to create wonderful shapes in impressively beautiful sculptured drama. Night time use of a landscape requires good visibility. In landscape lighting it is not essential to highly illuminate all areas, but highlight specific areas like steps, entry areas and walkways to eliminate shadows and dark spots. Dark and light contrasts, shadow patterns are much more interesting with night lighting. Lamp grids or shields can be used to make well defined light patterns that are not possible in the daylight.

Well-placed low-voltage landscape lighting along walkways and near hazards shows thoughtful concern for guests and adds safety to your garden of light. But to achieve this beauty created at the flick of a toggle it takes more than moon spots in trees. Lighting a landscape can extend the use of outdoor space while providing safety, atmosphere and space definition. Lighting can also accent areas of a landscape or create patterns and contrast. The goal is to accent focal points subtly, then use additional fill light to illuminate pathways and add texture and shadow.

A landscape can come alive in the evening hours with just a few lights in appropriate places. Special lights can create color accents and glows. Flowers may take on new hues, pools and fountains have a special glistening and moon glow lights create a feeling of a moonlit landscape. Landscape lighting is most effective when use in limited, subtle ways. Use lighting sparingly and in specific spots and a landscape will come alive in a whole new way. Most landscape lighting makes use of miniature Low Voltage Lighting fixtures.

A low voltage system is mandatory to ensure greater safety and to reduce risk from electrical shock, as the fixtures and wiring are often operated under wet conditions. Landscape lighting fixtures include the use of illuminated bollards. Usually landscape lighting is placed on a control system that turns the system on or off at specific times. Alternately a system might use a photocell control, turning the system on at dusk and off at dawn.