Why only enjoy your beautiful landscaping during the day?
Earth Wood & Flowers Landscaping can bring your landscape to
life at night!
We can illuminate your best features and leave
dark those areas you wish to conceal.
Aside from it's obvious
practical functions of security; safety around stairs, paths, and changing garden and patio levels; and opening the landscape
to nighttime use, lighting used skillfully is a basic means of enhancing your landscapes aura of seclusion and sanctuary.
With garden lighting you can illuminate whole areas or accent attractive features such as flowering plants, strong-textured foliage,
statuary, water features, or architectural details.
At the same time your landscape is
visually isolated from the dark world outside, intensifying the feeling of a private world.
Lighting also enables you to enjoy the scene from indoors in any weather season.
What could be more striking than
a softly illuminate, snow-covered landscape.
Kinds of Landscape
Lighting:
Much outdoor lighting is done with spotlights and floodlights
or low-voltage lighting.
We try to conceal the lights themselves, under
the eaves of the house or behind trees and shrubs, to avoid attracting insects by keeping the bright lights away from sitting
or dining areas.
Garden areas: and low features are often lighted from above, and down-lighting has the advantage of suggesting moonlight.
We are careful to be sure it doesn't cast harsh shadows and that they are positioned
so that strollers in the garden don't pass through it's beams.
Lighting from below: can bring out the forms and textures of
higher features, such as the deeply-cut bark and heavy, sprawling branches of an old oak or peeling bark of a River Birch
trunk.
The lights are generally positioned out of sigh, either
above eye level or directed away from the vantage points of the people in the garden.
Back-lighting: shows off the silhouette of a feature with an
interesting profile, like a small, contorted tree or a gracefully proportioned stone lantern, and this can create some extremely
dramatic nighttime effects.
Statues, specimen plants, or other
special features can be spotlighted from whatever angle you prefer. Many garden ornaments are best lighted from more than
one angle, as long as the lights don't shine into the eyes of the viewers.
Diffused lighting: makes use of a translucent material like fiberglass
or frosted glass, overhead, in a wall panel, or in a lantern, to create a soft, non-glaring light. Much the same effect can
be achieved by indirect lighting, created by shining light onto a reflective surface such as a solid overhead.
With a little experimentation Earth Wood & Flowers
Landscaping can determine and reveal which special lighting effects will work best in your landscape.
