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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Lighting For Landscape Gardens

Landscape lights are a better idea for beautiful landscape. This is a great way to heighten a landscape design after the sun goes down. It also helps to enjoy special features of your landscape design, blooms, trees, and plants.

Landscape garden is generally located in front or backyard. In day time it looks very good when sun set off it turns dull. So to overcome from this problem, landscape lighting is introduced. There are many advantage of landscape lighting:
  • Increases the usability of the areas outside your house
  • Builds an entertainment hub for children
  • Helps to increase the safety aspect of your front or backyard
  • Helps to notice potential hazardous areas like abrupt changes in the elevation of the landscape, obstacles on the walkway
  • Help in increasing the value of the property

Types of lighting
There are many types of landscape lighting and many of them come with motion sensors as well as timers. They are as follows:

Architectural Lighting
These lightings are used to accentuate the variations in texture as well as architectural features in brick and stonework, and fascia.

Path Lighting
You can illuminate your walkways and driveways in various beautiful designs to beautify your landscape garden.

Down Lighting
It is also known as moon lighting. This decorated on the building or the branches of trees. It helps to cast shadows of various patterns on the surface of the ground. This kind of light mainly used to light up driveways, lawns, patios and decks, and walkways.

Up-Lighting and Ground Lighting
This type of lighting is used to cast light in an upward direction to highlight the features, color, size, and texture of various landscaping.

Variety is the major key while choosing the landscaping light. A wise selection of lighting can create an elegant look of landscape garden.


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