When it comes to creating a beautiful garden, it’s not just about stunning greenery and stylish furniture. Lighting is an essential part of your garden, especially when it gets dark. With the right lighting, your garden can become a safe space to enjoy all hours of the day.
In this blog, we’ll take you through some of the best garden lighting ideas and how they can be used to meet your practical and aesthetic needs.
For brilliant indoor and outdoor lighting solutions, check out our range at Vision Lighting where we offer options like our LED floodlights that can have a multitude of uses.
Light Up Your Pathway
Lighting up pathways is important to ensure safe walkways but can also become a beautiful aesthetic feature in your garden. There are a number of different outdoor lighting ideas you can utilise along your garden path.
One brilliant option is solar-powered lights. You can purchase lights that stick into the ground and absorb natural light during the day and at night produce soft lighting. These lights are great if you want lighting that isn’t too harsh and they come in a range of stunning designs.
Lower-wattage floodlights like 30w LED floodlights are another great option. Their compact but powerful illumination means you’ll only need to use a few lights to light up your whole path, making a great money and space-saving option.
Evenly space a few out along your pathway edge to create a consistent light source for safe walking in the dark.
Alternatively, why not consider ground light fittings or bollard lighting, depending on the aesthetic you want to create?
Security lights for your garden
Floodlights are usually used for practical purposes rather than aesthetics and are a key element of garden security and safety. This type of light provides illumination across larger areas of your garden, allowing you to see all areas clearly at night. This not only acts as a deterrent to intruders but also makes any security or safety issues easier to spot.
100w or 50w LED floodlights are ideal for lighting up bigger areas like patios, driveways, or gardens due to their powerful lumen output and energy efficiency. For some practical garden lighting ideas, place the floodlights at the top of your garden and angle them facing towards the very bottom of your garden. This should ensure that the full span of the area is lit. If your garden is much longer rather than wide, place some extra floodlights at the halfway point or close to the end of your garden to ensure full coverage.
To save energy and create an easy alert to movement in your garden you can also purchase motion sensor floodlights. These lights won’t stay on all the time but instead will light up the garden to make any intruder visible, from hedgehogs to humans. This is not only great for spooking pests but will also deter any misfits.
Stylish Strip Lights
For some more modern garden lighting ideas, utilising strip lights is a great option. LED strip lights can be placed underneath almost any surface to give you light from beneath.
If you’ve got wooden decking or wooden steps in your garden you can place strip lights along the sides and under each step. Not only does this help you navigate safer in the dark but it offers a hidden lighting option as opposed to lots of lanterns or bulbs scattered across the garden.
For some unique outdoor lighting, if you’ve got a garden table or you’re lucky enough to have a back garden bar, you can stick LED strip lights of any colour underneath the surfaces. Strip lights are easy to install and will create a stylish lighting effect that is great for impressing guests during parties and BBQs.
String lights
There are so many different styles of string lights that can all create different beautiful lighting options for your garden.
Fairy Lights
Fairy lights have a range of uses both indoors and outdoors and can be used just about anywhere in your garden. Wrap them around the branches of any trees in your garden to create a stunning light feature at night. You can also hang them along your fence, door frames or any outhouses like sheds to give your garden a warm and inviting feel.
You can also choose from battery-operated, rechargeable, solar-powered and mains-powered fairy lights so you can choose the right power option for your garden.
Festoon Lights
These feature larger bulbs and offer more powerful lighting than fairy lights. Hang these lights from tree to tree or overhead from one end of the garden to the other and secure them to the fence on each side. This will create a stunning overhead archway effect that gives you lighting from above.
Natural flame lighting
For an energy-efficient, cost-effective lighting option you can use natural lighting from flames. Candles are a brilliant, long-lasting option and will burn bright throughout the night. Use tea lights lined along your table or steps for a stunning gentle glow. You can also purchase candle lanterns that you can place and candles inside. This protects them from rain and allows them to be hung from above as well. Always remember to be safe and sensible when using flames.
Another option is to use a fire pit. This option is perfect for nights chatting around the fire with friends and family. You can purchase wood-burning fire pits or ones that run on fuel.
Garden Lighting at Vision Lighting
Vision Lighting offers a great selection of lighting options for use in your garden from stunning LEDs to practical floodlights. Whatever lighting solution you choose, you’re sure to receive high-quality, long-lasting products that keep your garden bright and beautiful.
Not sure where to start with your garden lighting? Speak to one of our experts and we can lead you in the right direction based on your personal lighting needs.