Brighten Up Your Garden: Simple Ways To Incorporate Lights Into Your Back Garden

Gardens are one of the most desirable house features, and homeowners spend countless hours and plenty of money keeping their garden fresh, beautiful, and up to date with the latest gardening trends.

Here are some simple ways to brighten up your back garden with one of the most stylish garden trends of today; decorative lighting.

Light The Way

Paths provide the perfect opportunity for outdoor lighting in a garden. If you have a paved or decked garden path leading through your backyard, why not incorporate some lighting so you can see the way?

The options are endless, with dedicated upright posts topped with LED lamps to dot the way down to sunken spotlights, up-lighting the path at every step. You will be able to find a style that suits you and your budget.

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Highlight Your Green Fingers

Gardens can be beautiful spaces, and if you like spending a few hours over the weekend hoeing, mowing, planting, and weeding, then you should have some wonderful blooming features to show off.

When lighting a garden, think about back lighting your flowering plants and the horticultural features that make your garden special. This allows you to appreciate them in the evenings and at nighttime, as their pretty petals are illuminated.

Adding LED up-lights to raised planters is a great look and works just as well with a vegetable plot as a flower bed. Showing off your green-fingered success with some spotlights helps give your garden character through the night and the day. You have put in all that hard work, so why not?

Combine LEDs With A Water Feature

Electricity and water do not mix well, but light and water can look stunning at night. With the help of a qualified electrician, anyone can successfully blend these two elements into an eye-catching feature.

LEDs are perfect for this application, as they are low-power devices letting you limit the amount of electricity fed to the water feature. They also allow you to add colour to the mix, and there are water feature friendly LED lighting kits that are ready to install straight out of the box.

Up-lighting a fountain, and using a remote to change colour schemes, can be a fun feature to show to friends. If you want to take a subtler, more minimalist approach use LEDs to illuminate running water that falls into a small pond or tank. Even an old bucket or sink can be turned into a feature like this.

Upscale Your Decking Or Patio

One of the best additions to any garden is a decked area or paved space that lets you relax in the sun during the day and enjoy some al-fresco dining in the evening. If you add the right lights, you can carry on eating and drinking into the small hours of the night.

Small up-light LED spots are great to establish the perimeter of the space. This can be a safety feature at night. A lip, step, or drop at the edge of your deck or patio may be hard to see in the dark. The addition of a few spotlights not only looks good, but also helps protect you, your family, and your guest from a trip or fall.

If you want to make the most of your outdoor eating area you need to install a little overhead lighting. This can come from a nearby wall, or you can make a feature out of it and create a lamppost or two that keep your garden lit when you are entertaining.

Make A Magical Forest

Trees look great when illuminated. Using strings of outdoor fairy lights, you can bring an old tree to life at night, and children love it. They bring a magical touch to late evenings on the patio, eating a family meal.

It is not as simple as throwing some lights up into the leaves, it will take some planning and a careful installation, as well as some trial and error to get the look you want. Use zip ties to attach lights and secure their wire to branches.

Be prepared to lose your lights to the tree over time. As the seasons pass, the bark will slowly start to grow around and envelope the zip ties and cables. This is not a problem, and the lights will still work, but after a few years you may not be able to uninstall the lights; the wiring will be a part of the tree.

Bringing light to your back garden helps you get more from the space and makes the garden a functional feature of your home the whole family can enjoy.