What Landscape Lighting Can Do For You?
If you take pride in your grounds - the tasteful trees, the statuesque shrubbery, the beautiful garden - why not enjoy them by night as well as by day? The right outdoor lighting allows you to derive the full benefits of your costly landscaping after the sun goes down. It also provides better safety and security.

• Turn your garden into a wonderland at night
• Make your home stand out in the neighborhood
• Expand outdoor living and entertaining after dark
• Improve safety and security on your property

Aesthetic Benefits
• Show off the beauty of your home after dark
• Highlight favorite flowers and shrubs
• Dramatize trees, pool, fountain, masonry texture, statuary and other focal points
• Relax in your backyard or entertain on your patio or deck

Practical Benefits
• Safety: good lighting on steps, walks and driveways helps avoid accidents
• Security: floodlighting and other landscape lighting will deter prowlers and vandals. Prowlers will avoid a well-lit yard.
• Investment: Grounds which are dramatically lighted at night look like a luxurious estate, increasing the resale value of your property.

DESIGN EFFECTS OF LANDSCAPE LIGHTING

Accent or Spot Lighting
These lights focus a controlled intense beam to highlight the focal points in your garden: flowers, small shrubs and statuary. This creates sparkling islands of interest in your landscape lighting plan.

Shadowing
Light the object from the front and below to project intriguing shadows on the wall or other vertical surfaces.

Grazing
Positioning the light close to an interesting surface can bring out the texture of tree bark, a masonry wall, wood shingles or an attractive door. Grazing of smooth surfaces is not usually recommended.

Silhouetting
When you conceal lights behind and below a tress or bush, you achieve that same wondrous effect as seeing it on a ridge silhouetted against the sky at dusk.

Pool and Pond Lighting
Underwater lighting creates dramatic effects in pools and ponds. Install a dimmer for turning lights up to add excitement. Note: Water may be used as a mirror by lighting the area behind the reflecting surface.

Downlighting or Cross Lighting
Mount lighting units high up in trees or on the house to cast broad illumination over wide areas. Floodlighting enables you to entertain in your backyard or outdoor area after dark, and does double duty for security and safety. For highlighting flower beds, paths or steps, the downlight is positioned close to the ground.

Uplighting
Lights aimed upwards (sometimes buried in the ground) create a highly dramatic effect akin to the theater. Use it with interesting trees, a statue or textured wall surfaces. Autumn leaves or swirling snow provide spectacular views. Focus the light on the key plants or objects in your yard.

Driveway
Highlighting your driveway with light also improves safety and security, while the delineation creates an attractive pattern.

Rear Yard
Floodlighting from house or trees helps discourage intruders and vandals. Where you can't conceal the light source, select units which look attractive - not industrial. Arrange for automatic timers, photocells or motion sensors.

Front Entry
Provide a warm welcome after dark. Select a wall bracket which casts adequate illumination on front steps, as well as lighting the keyhole and house numbers.

Steps and Pathways
Frequently neglected, but also important to avoid accidents in dark locations, are low path lights, post lanterns and lights attached to the house.

Inground or Well Lights
Burying these fixtures flush with the ground conceals the light source. Use for uplighting trees and shrubs, and grazing textured walls.

Timers, Transformers and other Accessories
Automatic timers, photocells, or motion sensors which turn lights on at dusk and off at dawn make landscape lighting convenient and energy saving.

Benefits of a low voltage lighting system vs. 120 Volt system.
• Lower overall cost
• More energy-efficient and often more light output per watt
• Little or not risk of shock or other electrical hazard
• Minimum disturbance to lawn and garden (Cable can be buried without conduit and junction boxes or it can be left above ground)
• Easy relocation of fixtures when desired. As plants and trees grow, simply move the fixture back to maintain proper illumination. Low voltage fixtures typically mount to the ground with a stake.