There are so many different types of garden lights that if you had just one of each of the main styles you could easily blind your neighbors and draw traffic to a stop. It’s easy to go overboard when adding lighting to your yard and garden, but restraint is one of the hallmarks of good décor. Find the lights you love the most and use them sparingly to get the biggest effect and impact, for a truly impressive nighttime garden.
Novelty, Shaped and Unique lights
Garden gnomes are kind of old hat, but have a few in your garden with glowing lights in their noses or bellies and add a bit of fun to your garden. Gnomes that glow at night are far from the only novelty lighting shape available. Turtles with lights in their shell, and shapes that glow from within are popular and common solar garden lights. You can find almost any variety in low-voltage lighting, too.
String lights are fun and come in truly funky styles, but it’s almost more of a surprise to see a lovely little garden statue turn into a light fixture at night, particularly if the light is colored or very soft. Solar fixtures tend to burn less brightly than LED solar lights or low-voltage lights, so if you’re going solely for mood, solar novelty lights are perfect.
One of the best ways to determine which novelty lights are best for you is to look around your garden in the brightest part of the day. Do you really want to see a bunch of plain stakes marking your walk in the daylight? What about a decorative lantern instead? Instead of a row of UFO-shaped fixtures that detract from the look when the sun is up, choose some small hanging lanterns, small lighted statues or other means of illuminating your garden path.
A striking type of light is one that embeds into a brick walkway and lights up alternating bricks down the center or each side of your brick path. You can find stakes and garden accessories and ornaments shaped like animals, birds, insects, flowers, lighthouses, cottages, fairies and almost anything that you would enjoy in your garden. So you get a pretty ornament in the daytime and a practical and beautiful light at night.
For truly whimsical additions, shaped and novelty string lights that people typically use on patios can be used in a garden. Get a solar string of lights and twirl them around a garden trellis, a garden fence, a lamppost or other decorative fixture. Whatever look you’re going for, rest assured that the variety of lights/”>garden lights available will help you meet your decorating needs.
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