Splash a Little Color on the Landscape with LED Lighting

With beautiful flowing streams alongside the verdant radiance of the plants you have spent so much time and effort cultivating, a cool mist enshrouds your landscape. Yet you can’t see a single bit of it.

 
Light are important additions to your landscape if you want to expand the amount of time you can truly enjoy the scenery. Of course there are the simple utilitarian lights such as HPS flood lights and LED lighting for pathways but there is so much more that can be done with just a little thought.

I propose that garden and landscape lighting should be for more than merely seeing.  LED grow lights  come in a wide variety of colors that can be used as accents to the plants and elements you have on your property. These colors can be easily changed throughout the year to reflect the seasons and to highlight them. Use warm colors in the summer that complement the flowers they fall on. Avoid contradictory colors or else everything will just look brown.

This is the reason that red is not a good idea as it is the natural contradiction to green. Green is a color that has a tendency to crop up in gardens from time to time.

During the winter, when your perennials go into dormancy and your garden is dusted with a blanket of snow and ice, bring out the cold colors and turn your property into a winter wonderland. You can even play with the blank slate that the pure white snow can be and use playful colors that dance around. With the right lighting setup you can program color shows that swirl and flow. If you plan to do this you really need LED lighting since it offers the most colors, highest programmability, fastest cycling between on and off and their efficiency is not affected by low temperatures or repeatedly being turned on and off like many other lighting solutions.

Why only enjoy your landscape during the summer and for only a few hours a day? With the right lighting solutions you can get a lot more out of your hard work.