Garden Solar Lighting

Garden Solar Lighting to Reduce Your Energy Bill

Gardens are great places to be during the day and in the evening. You can hang around with your family and friends over lazy weekends and enjoy some quality time together, particularly if you are not restricted to using your outdoor spaces during daylight hours. Invite friends over for the evening and your solar lights will be ideal to make sure you don't all have to go indoors as soon as the sun sets.

Night times need not be a time to neglect the pleasure of your garden.

Although the colorful flowers may not be seen, you have still have shrubs, trees, plants, fences and possibly a fountain. You can decorate these with lights to bring you garden to life even at night.

Besides the beauty aspect, there may be genuine needs to use solar powered outdoor lighting, especially if you have your patio or the walkway passing through the garden.

Wild Grass Solar Outdoor Lighting

Wild Grass Solar Garden Lights

These are the decorative kind of light. The unit consists of three LEDs, three spring grass, a 0.2W solar panel, and an AA battery.

The solar panel is designed to collect and store solar energy during the day to be used to power the LEDs. The unit also has a sensor mechanism by which the lights get turned off during the day and power up only during evenings and nights.

These LEDs operate in two modes – blinking and steady. The blinked mode may be used during the festive season while the steady one can be used to decorate your garden on regular days.

Garden Solar Lighting - Sunforce

Sunforce Solar Garden Lights

The Sunforce 86115 solar garden lights are more of a pathway lighting system. This unit comes in a pack of ten lights that can be used to light up your walkway from the gate up to your door step.

The amorphous solar cells mean that the light is practically maintenance free. What’s more, these lights are very simple to install.

Like most garden lights, these lights turn on automatically in late evening, so you don’t have to bother about switching them on / off. The lamps contain super bright LEDs giving sufficient light at night.

Garden Solar Lighting - Moonrays Verona

Moonrays Verona Style
Solar Powered Plastic Path Light

These are similar to the Sunforce garden lights as in that they can be used to light up walkways. This solar outdoor lighting is made of durable plastic so it is tough and yet light.

The plastic is also ideally suited for outdoor installation as it can withstand all weather conditions. The unit is powered by NiMh rechargeable batteries.

These batteries are charged by solar cells. Even these lamps use bright, white LED. At 10.5” above the ground, these are at ideal height to make the walkway visible.

Customers who have used this product have been impressed by the price for the units.

For most customers, these lamps are good value for money. However, these lights are just bright enough to light up the borders of the walkway to guide you through the garden. If you are looking for street lamp kind on intensity, then these are not the ones you should choose.

Thus we see that there are several variations of solar garden lights. The common ones are the ones used to light up the walkway or pathway in the garden.

These are relatively low in height and produce just enough light intensity to guide you through the dark. The more fancy ones are for decoration. These may come in various shapes and sizes.

Another interesting thing about these fancy lights is that they can be used to create a miniature garden in the balconies of high rise buildings.