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Major improvements in both solar cell technology and low energy consumption outdoor LED lights mean that solar garden lighting is now a viable and valid choice for modern outdoor garden lighting. But it's not all sweetness and light - solar powered LED outdoor lighting does have some drawbacks...
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Outdoor LED Lighting first started appearing as part of the range of low voltage garden lighting systems only just a few years ago, but has since become extremely popular. LED garden lights deliver beautiful after dark effects while being very easy to install, safe for plants, animals and children, fairly inexpensive to buy and very cheap to run.
Traditionally, garden lighting has relied on normal incandescent bulbs and halogen spotlights and as a result can overwhelm many normal sized family gardens. Also, unlike low voltage LED outdoor lighting, the range of effects possible is more ...
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Outdoor LED Lighting first started appearing as part of the range of low voltage garden lighting systems only just a few years ago, but has since become extremely popular. LED garden lights deliver beautiful after dark effects while being very easy to install, safe for plants, animals and children, fairly inexpensive to buy and very cheap to run.
Traditionally, garden lighting has relied on normal incandescent bulbs and halogen spotlights and as a result can overwhelm many normal sized family gardens. Also, unlike low voltage LED outdoor lighting, the range of effects possible is more limited, and even ...
It is a long established doctrine of garden design to consider outdoors as simply another room (or set of rooms) and the basic principles for creating effective home lighting broadly apply to garden lighting also. There are however a number of crucial differences between indoor and outdoor lighting to be aware of.
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Which low energy light bulbs should you buy? CFLs are the easy option, but in terms of how much they will actually save you, they simply don't hold a candle to LEDs. And that's just for starters. Did anyone mention environmental impact?
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Consider how your garden or deck might instead appear if you simply trained a whole series of uniform bright floodlights on it? The effect would simply be a flat, harsh, less appealing version of the day time garden with most of the color washed out.
The whole point of
outdoor led lighting is that it presents a fabulous opportunity to have a second garden - the night garden, which has its own character and is related to, but clearly distinct from, the daytime garden. You can for example enhance garden features ...
... night time look that is often quite different to how the garden looks during the day. Consider how your garden or deck might instead appear if you simply trained a whole series of uniform bright floodlights on it? The effect would simply be a flat, harsh, less appealing version of the day time garden with most of the color washed out.
The whole point of
Outdoor LED Lighting is that it presents a fabulous opportunity to have a second garden - the night garden, which has its own character and is related to, but clearly distinct ...
