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What garden lighting?
Hi everyone,
Im new here and would really appreciate some help! Basically, after spending to much money getting our garden re-landscaped about 3 months ago I'd really like to add some character for evening use. I don't know if anyone has any advice but our garden designer recommended some lighting & in particular a brand called Hunza... The lights certainly look very nice but I was really wandering what everyone thought about them? Are they worth the money? He showed me this site: www.engineeringwithlight.com - has anyone used it or brought from here? Any advice is very much appreciated!!! Thanks everyone, Rich |
What garden lighting?
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from Richy Rich contains these words: Hi everyone, Hi Im new here and would really appreciate some help! That's what we do best... Basically, after spending to much money getting our garden re-landscaped about 3 months ago I'd really like to add some character for evening use. I don't know if anyone has any advice but our garden designer recommended some lighting & in particular a brand called Hunza... Nice apricots... The lights certainly look very nice but I was really wandering what everyone thought about them? Are they worth the money? Sort-of nouveau riche to naff, IMO He showed me this site: www.engineeringwithlight.com - has anyone used it or brought from here? Any advice is very much appreciated!!! Why put lights in at all? If you're in anything like a rural area the sky is *AWESOME* If in town/suburbia, there's too much feral light already. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
It depends what you want to do with the garden after dark. Are you planning to spend time out there partying are do you just want an effect to view from the house? I think a movement-activated light on the back of the house is very useful, both for seeing where you're going and for security. Beyond that solar-powered lights look good are very cheap and only need occasional replacement batteries. Anything else would, I think, require a qualified electrician to lay cables, so why not ask their advice?
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What garden lighting?
Sacha wrote:
On 24/10/08 17:55, in article , "Rusty Hinge 2" wrote: The message from Richy Rich contains these words: Hi everyone, Hi Im new here and would really appreciate some help! That's what we do best... Basically, after spending to much money getting our garden re-landscaped about 3 months ago I'd really like to add some character for evening use. I don't know if anyone has any advice but our garden designer recommended some lighting & in particular a brand called Hunza... Nice apricots... The lights certainly look very nice but I was really wandering what everyone thought about them? Are they worth the money? Sort-of nouveau riche to naff, IMO He showed me this site: www.engineeringwithlight.com - has anyone used it or brought from here? Any advice is very much appreciated!!! Why put lights in at all? If you're in anything like a rural area the sky is *AWESOME* If in town/suburbia, there's too much feral light already. I'm with Rusty on this. I love a clear night sky with nothing to diminish it and if you're living in an area that doesn't have that - well, don't add to it. OTOH, if you're expecting a lovely warm summer next year, I think I'd go for candles, storm lanterns, braziers - things that are used when needed and then doused. IMO, these are both more tasteful and more full of real character rather than 'artful' lights placed among stones and ponds and designed to look like rocks. Natural is good, IMO. Sacha, I have to disagree. I have 'rock' lights around my pond, and a lantern hung over the middle. Looks beautiful at night. I've posted pics before, but they don't do it justice. Rich.......you have money to burn?? What's wrong with the selection in B & Q? :) -- Pete C London UK |
What garden lighting?
On 27/10/08 20:33, in article , "Pete C"
wrote: Sacha wrote: On 24/10/08 17:55, in article , "Rusty Hinge 2" wrote: The message from Richy Rich contains these words: Hi everyone, Hi Im new here and would really appreciate some help! That's what we do best... Basically, after spending to much money getting our garden re-landscaped about 3 months ago I'd really like to add some character for evening use. I don't know if anyone has any advice but our garden designer recommended some lighting & in particular a brand called Hunza... Nice apricots... The lights certainly look very nice but I was really wandering what everyone thought about them? Are they worth the money? Sort-of nouveau riche to naff, IMO He showed me this site: www.engineeringwithlight.com - has anyone used it or brought from here? Any advice is very much appreciated!!! Why put lights in at all? If you're in anything like a rural area the sky is *AWESOME* If in town/suburbia, there's too much feral light already. I'm with Rusty on this. I love a clear night sky with nothing to diminish it and if you're living in an area that doesn't have that - well, don't add to it. OTOH, if you're expecting a lovely warm summer next year, I think I'd go for candles, storm lanterns, braziers - things that are used when needed and then doused. IMO, these are both more tasteful and more full of real character rather than 'artful' lights placed among stones and ponds and designed to look like rocks. Natural is good, IMO. Sacha, I have to disagree. I have 'rock' lights around my pond, and a lantern hung over the middle. Looks beautiful at night. I've posted pics before, but they don't do it justice. Rich.......you have money to burn?? What's wrong with the selection in B & Q? :) I just don't like lighting in gardens, except if you're in them, using the light to eat or read by and that's rare in this climate. It's a form of pollution, IMO. Scads of children don't know what a clear night sky looks like because of street lighting and other artificial light so my vote is for the 'no lights' brigade. Each to their own and all that. The only time we light our garden is when we have a church 'do' in the tea room and people have to find their way up the path from the church! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon (new website online) |
What garden lighting?
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from Sacha contains these words: I just don't like lighting in gardens, except if you're in them, using the light to eat or read by and that's rare in this climate. It's a form of pollution, IMO. Scads of children don't know what a clear night sky looks like because of street lighting and other artificial light so my vote is for the 'no lights' brigade. Each to their own and all that. The only time we light our garden is when we have a church 'do' in the tea room and people have to find their way up the path from the church! Years ago a lad of 12/13 was staying with me in the wild Norfolk Outback and we had been out somewhere and returned late. It was even later by the time we'd fed the wabbits and I'd milked the seven in-milk goats, and going back to the house Steven looked at the sky... We spent a good hour looking at the brilliant stars in the black velvet canopy. His first remark was "We haven't got stars in Harold Wood!" I explained about light pollution (heavy pollution in the case of Harold Wood innit) and pointed out constellations, connected them (where i knew) with legends, showed how to locate Polaris (the Pole Star) from Cassiopaea and the Plough / Great Bear, where the ecliptic was, and which points of light were planets, and which I thought they were, and to cap it all (which was why we spent an hour or so) we saw several meteors. I'd never seen him so excited - more so than when we spotted the tracks of a big cat in the snow a couple of years before that. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
What garden lighting?
On 28/10/08 13:07, in article
, "Rusty_Hinge" wrote: The message from Sacha contains these words: I just don't like lighting in gardens, except if you're in them, using the light to eat or read by and that's rare in this climate. It's a form of pollution, IMO. Scads of children don't know what a clear night sky looks like because of street lighting and other artificial light so my vote is for the 'no lights' brigade. Each to their own and all that. The only time we light our garden is when we have a church 'do' in the tea room and people have to find their way up the path from the church! Years ago a lad of 12/13 was staying with me in the wild Norfolk Outback and we had been out somewhere and returned late. It was even later by the time we'd fed the wabbits and I'd milked the seven in-milk goats, and going back to the house Steven looked at the sky... We spent a good hour looking at the brilliant stars in the black velvet canopy. His first remark was "We haven't got stars in Harold Wood!" I explained about light pollution (heavy pollution in the case of Harold Wood innit) and pointed out constellations, connected them (where i knew) with legends, showed how to locate Polaris (the Pole Star) from Cassiopaea and the Plough / Great Bear, where the ecliptic was, and which points of light were planets, and which I thought they were, and to cap it all (which was why we spent an hour or so) we saw several meteors. I'd never seen him so excited - more so than when we spotted the tracks of a big cat in the snow a couple of years before that. It is truly magical to see a clear and unpolluted night sky. In the Lavezzi islands they were so clear and so huge I felt I could reach out and grab them and the shooting stars - wow!! If economies force councils to turn off lights and people have to start using torches to walk out in the evening, as they do round here, it will be a Good Thing, IMO. We sit here on dusky evenings and watch the bats and then "who sees the first star" etc. It's glorious. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon (new website online) |
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