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Top 3 Solar Landscape Lighting Options For Your Garden

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Top 3 Solar Landscape Lighting Options For Your Garden

Gone are the days when you had to choose electrical switches, lights to glow your garden at nights. Solar garden lights are new rage which is extremely popular, energy efficient and easy to install. These solar lights are charged by sunlight and don’t require electricity. These lights also get rid of irritating wires and electrical switches scattered here and there. Although, these solar light are low voltage lights so you need to think wisely before placing them in your garden. Unlike electrical lights you need to place these solar lights bit closer to each other.

Nowadays, there are some big lights available too which can turn the night into day with their powerful lights.  So, if you planning to install landscape solar lights in your garden then this article will help you in determining top landscape solar light design. Please leave me a comment and let me know your favorite solar lights for your landscape garden.

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Solar Spotlights: Spotlights are great way of enhancing the looks of your garden. Solar powered landscape spotlights have good white or yellow light for your garden. You can optionally choose and install small spotlights under the trees and big plants. Placing lights under the trees or big plants creates magical view with the look of greenery all around the garden especially if the trees are located at the corner of garden bed and pathways. Moreover, spotlights with their crystal clear light serves as an additional security. You can also place spotlights at the edges of the garden besides your fence to create a beam of boundary look along with fence.

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Foot Lamps: Foot lamps are also an ideal option for the landscape gardens. Nowadays solar powered landscape foot lamps are available which can easily be installed on the front or backside of the garden bed. These foot lamps are very popular because these can be placed easily on the pathway or even on the garden stairs. You can install solar powered foot lamps on the unpaved path which leads to your home or the backyard. All you have to do it ensure that the lamps are not in shadow and can receive maximum sunlight during days to charge efficiently. Depending upon the light emitted by foot lamps you can place them in a row with a minimum distance of six to seven feet from each other. Most of the modern solar powered foot lamps can be placed anywhere and removing and reinstalling isn’t a pain.

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Ambient Lighting: you can also purchase solar powered ambient lights especially if you are interested in evening garden events. Only drawback is that you can’t simply place them at your favorite place. You need to install solar panel which will connect to all these solar powered ambient lights. This big solar panel can either be placed at the roof or backyard from where you will connect all the ambient lights in the garden. Usually these lights are installed on poles which are bit higher than foot lamps or any other landscape garden lights. The height of the pole helps in spreading the light equally around the garden. Typically these lights are chosen if you have quite a big garden with some extra lighting options. It requires you to dig up a hole and get the pole permanently placed at the desired location which is costly than any other landscape solar garden lights but it has its own advantages also. You need to focus on the length of the poles along with the distance which separates them. So, if you opting for solar powered ambient garden light then be prepared to spend some big bucks on the installation. However in longer run these will still be cost efficient than any other electrical garden lights.

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