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Garden Lighting > Learning Center > Different Styles of Lighting for your Garden
The most basic style of lighting is the tiered or pagoda lighting. These lamps have a covered lighting element that directs its intensity downward in order to provide ambient light to the surrounding area. Depending on your tastes, these can be found with multiple tiers or shaped as domes or triangles with the element completely covered for subtly. Bollard lamps are very similar to tiered lights. These small fixtures provide 360 degree lighting, are low to the ground, and have rounded plain tops for minimal visual effect. These types of lamps can provide lighting to a garden without drawing attention to themselves. If you have a walkway in your garden, you can find tiered lighting that is angled to cover a pathway; bollard lights can work as well. A more advanced device are lit steps, called pavers, that provide underground illumination, which create minimal interference, although they require a more complex installation and wiring. In ground, which requires a similar effort, can be used to light a pathway as well as draw attention to specific feature of your garden. Spotlights, either fixed or adjustable, can do likewise. These lights are usually angled up from a low position, and while providing ambient light, draw attention to or add needed light to areas of the garden. Placed near the walls of you home, they can illuminate the garden and your home for decorative or security needs. Finally, more elaborately styled lights, such as post lights, which imitate old fashioned street lamps can be added to increase luminosity in your garden and to give a sense of personal taste. More obvious lamps, such as post lamps, which stand a few feet off the ground, can signify edges of walkways or points of interest in your garden such as a pond. With all of these styles you can find a different array of elements – florescent, LED, or even fiber optic. Each has a different lifespan and luminescence so shop according to you needs. As an added possibility, many of the bulbs can be found in different colors. Solar powered lights in all these styles can be found to minimize wiring costs and labor. Related Information |
 
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When shopping for garden lighting it can seem that there is an endless variety of styles to choose from. This might be true on some level, but in reality there are only a few distinct styles with an immense diversity within them. What you know about the products available can guide you on how you imagine your final lit garden will look like.