Garden Lighting Can Add Another Dimension To Your Garden.

Over recent years garden lighting has become more cost effective and available to a lot more gardeners. Garden lighting is a great way to add another dimension to your garden, with some experimentation you can create what seems to be a totally different garden at night with lighting.
Here are some of the top garden lighting tips from the GardenAdvice Team
1. When building or creating a new area in your garden its worth laying some 6 core armored cable in path ways and around garden borders.  This is not to much of an additional cost and saves loads of time later when you have finish the garden and wish to install lights.
2. Consider lighting features in your lighting plan with up lighting to create the structure of your lighting plan. These features can be such items as mature trees or a group of pots. You will find these features will often not be key to the gardens structure during the day but at night they will stand out and provide very strong structural features within your garden creating that additional dimension to your garden at night.
3. Light paths and steps softly – do not use lights that are to strong – use a light that shows the path or step so people visiting the garden at night feel comfortable but do not over light these areas as it can detract from your overall lighting scheme.
4.  Using grasses with lights can often have a great effect especially in light breezes as the grass moves. One of the best effects we achieved with lighting was with grasses covering in a light air frost in winter with small up lighters.
5. As well as light do not forget dark in the form of shadows, using structures such as large stones in your garden you can create interesting shadows adding to the depth of your lighting effects.
6. Garden lighting, the fixings and the bulbs such as the next generation of LED bulbs are always changing so its worth doing some research on the Internet with the suppliers web sites