Garden Lighting for Every Taste

Garden lighting provides evening not only for safety, an elaborate garden lighting your garden is also full of atmosphere in scene and is a great design tool. We show beautiful examples and we provide tips & tricks.

Evening all gardens are gray? No! A garden lighting sets the garden in the evening full of atmosphere in scene and opens up completely new perspectives, so that you can experience twelve months a year and enjoy the garden and enjoy the view from the living room window a unique light show!

A garden displaying plants and lighting objects from a completely different angle than nature can!

Tip: The garden lighting is best placed so that by it during the day you can see nothing and it only comes to the evening show to life. And then act at once plants also interesting that one has hardly noticed during the day.

The pictures grown tree shows through the garden lighting from an unfamiliar site. 
How-to: Explore initially with a flashlight the best place for a garden lighting. This allows you to determine the most interesting objects and plants and try out different angles before installing garden lighting fixed. It is important in all cases that the lights do not dazzle.

Types of garden lighting

Garden lighting for individual plants:

During the day, lamps are hidden behind rocks or in the undergrowth and awake until the early evening garden lighting to life. And then plants are in an interesting context, one during the day no attention at once.

Most lamps are simply inserted with spears in the earth. This anchors the lamps firmly in the ground, but they can still be arbitrarily place often new. Who wants to set individual objects in the right light, accesses special radiators, whose head can be rotated in all directions.

Garden Lighting for Seats:

A garden lighting at your seat meets two requirements: First, it makes him with torches or lanterns really comfortable, on the other hand give brighter lamps sufficient light to the evening still be able to read a book. Make sure that the lights do not dazzle.

Meanwhile, there are also beautifully designed as floor lamps garden lighting, similar to the living room lamps,  but are weatherproof.

Garden lighting for paths:

Who has not ever stumbled on unlit garden paths? To illuminate pitfalls, there is a wide range, usually assume base or bollards up to 1.5 m height, the lighting of garden paths.

Who far and wide has no outlet, and wish to transfer and no cable in the ground, may have recourse to a garden lighting with solar lights that fill up during the day and light up at night.

Garden lighting for ponds:

An impressive garden lighting also transforms the water garden until late into the night in a fairy tale world: Mysterious light shines out of the water, the fountain changes color, and floating on water balls that illuminate their surroundings. Such balls look like giant bubbles that seem to float in the wind over the water surface.

Garden lighting underwater: underwater spotlights are simply plugged into an existing fountain pump. With superior filter discs, the water then even changes its color.

Lighting effects in the garden:

Fairy lights, paper lanterns, lanterns and outdoor candles provide atmospheric lighting accents as garden lighting and are the perfect complement for garden parties or summer evenings. Outdoor Floating candles dip the pond or pool in atmospheric light. Illuminated with LEDs planter or even garden benches are very special eye-catcher.

With waterproof lamps, garden lighting also sets pond shore in scene and lights if desired, even under water. 

Garden lighting: various possibilities

Garden lighting with electricity, solar or candles: The possibilities are as varied as the garden itself crowns of trees, effectively illuminated from below, or single beds, immersed in atmospheric light, bringing more depth and put the plants an impressive scene.

Outdoor Lights in homely design 

A garden lighting by indirect light often achieved surprising effects: Red light , for example, enhances the foliage color of copper beeches, brilliant white light helps hochgewachsenem pampas grass to an outstanding appearance. The brightness of the garden lighting is important, because the light from many lamps works hard and unkind. Indirect garden lighting or backlighting leads to exciting light and shadow and sexy silhouettes.

Garden lighting: What you should note

Electricity in the garden: protection classes

• Make sure when garden lighting for all devices on the protection class, which is characterized by the two-digit IP code, for example, IP 55 The higher the number, the better the protection. The first digit represents protection against ingress of solid foreign objects.
• Required lighting equipment: house number and doorbell at night should be clearly visible. Paths, steps and stairs to the front door by Mark glare spots or light stones.
• Short cable: as close as possible Install the electrical outlets at or lamps, otherwise the cable can quickly prove to be stumbling blocks.
• Installation: To place outlets for the garden lighting in the lawn and flower beds, moved to underground cable spade safely in 60 cm depth.
• Heat: Please be careful when lamps that are hot, adequate space to plant.
• Low-voltage technology: LED, optical fiber and most halogen lamps, need very little energy and are also safe to use if margins. For the garden lighting they are therefore to be preferred. 
• High voltage systems ( 220 V): The installation is best left to the electrician.

Solar lights for garden lighting

Ideal solar lamps are if you have no outlet for power within reach. However, problems can make dirty solar panels in cloudy weather, which should show due south and have to be now and then wiped with a damp cloth. After re-energize in brightness, a built-in light sensor, the garden lighting switches on automatically once it gets dark. Another bonus is that solar lights do not burden the current credit.

A garden lighting creates hours of atmospheric moments on warm summer evenings. 

Regarding the power consumption, so the illumination of the garden needs to be no costly affair in general. In addition to solutions with solar and halogen lights now come for outdoor use energy-saving and durable LED lamps and optical fibers or strips for use. You can rely on the experience of professionals peaceful garden designers. They are on the cutting edge of technology, develop individual concepts and even put a sample illumination, so you can get an idea of the effect in advance.