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

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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
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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?

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
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
(new website online)

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

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)

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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
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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)