Solar Lighting For Enhanced Garden Landscaping

Also: Home and Garden Lighting, Garden Lighting - Lanterns

Despite its many attractions, the use of solar power in homes and gardens has been quite limited. It's cleanliness and environmental credentials have not been enough, yet, to make it a mainstream source of power.

However, there is one area in which solar power has made some inroads, and has the potential to make substantial further progress in energy supply. That is in garden lighting.

One of the problems for using solar sources to supply the main power to a home is the size of solar panels and their initial costs. Where solar power can be used effectively and easily is in individual lighting units in the garden. This brings solar into the convenience category for those who want to add lighting to their garden landscape, whether for security reasons, simply because a garden lit at night can be very attractive, or a combination of the two reasons.

When it comes to landscaping a garden, those who are serious enough about having a landscaped garden are likely to want lighting sources that are also attractive and to their taste. The look of hidden lights, concealed in a shrubbery for example, may not be too important; in that case the type, color and projection of the light is most important. If, however, you want to install more conspicuous lights for decorous as well as lighting purposes, then you will no doubt be looking for a style of light or lantern whose design fits in with your overall garden landscape.

Luckily, modern solar garden lighting need not mean having a central solar power source, through large solar panels, to supply power for the garden lighting in the evening and overnight. Individual lights and lanterns are now often manufactured with an inbuilt solar panel, so that it is self supporting. That is a big boon to landscape designers, as outdoor wiring can be avoided, should you wish.

Those garden lights with individual solar panels are now coming in an increasing range of designs, replicating many of the designs we may be familiar with in conventional garden lighting. The top picture, for example, brings together a vintage look carriage lantern design with the modern technology of solar power and the use of LED's , or Light Emitting Diodes. Such designs will please many garden landscapers, as well as ordinary house owners who just want a bit of outside lighting to light their own way, and that of visitors, to the house.

The middle picture is of a solar stake light which again has a tradtional appearance, hinting at none of its solar credentials. these types of low level, but off ground, lights are useful for lighting driveways and footpaths leading to your front door, but can of course be used for many other situations. The final picture is of a solar light built into an artificial rock, providing a more contemporary look for those who perfer such designs, or want to use ground level concealed lighting.

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