Lighting in garden design

A garden is not just for daytime and there is more to lighting your garden than putting up a floodlight to deter intruders. Garden designers see (or rather should see) the gardens they are designing as a ‘picture’ and that idea is often reserved for daylight hours. But if we ignore the outside after dark we often pass up an opportunity for a more dramatic ‘picture.’
The point is illustrated by this garden that we have recently designed using new energy efficient LED lighting:

It should make no difference if your garden is large or small, modern or traditional - adding lighting can make an enormous difference. To create an extra 'room outside,' that popular expression in garden designing these days, a good lighting scheme can transform the daylight scene to something practical without compromising beauty.
All this assumes, of course that there is something worth emphasising in your out door room. The before picture of this same garden will illustrate the point:

Like so many people, the owners put the shed at the bottom of the garden (see previous blog on this subject) and would probably not want to have their shed subtly lit! Must better the elegant silver birch as a focal point.

But where is the shed now?

Hidden behind the bamboo!

For more information on cost saving low energy lighting contact Adrian@haysham.co.uk