Solar Landscaping Lights
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Until recently we had never thought of using solar landscaping lights and now I wish we had used them a lot sooner.

Instead we had stuck to the more common motion sensor lighting.

We had one sensor light positioned at our back door, but on the front door it posed a problem from being set off by people passing by on the street.

We had also tried just leaving a light on at the front door but that tended to attract too many bugs.

As a result, we decided to take a look at landscaping lights.

Landscaping lights come in a wide variety of types, some packaged in sets, others sold individually.

Prices are typically around $25 per light but are generally cheaper the more you buy. One source I found online has a good range of quality solar landscaping lights in their Outdoor Lighting section.

Another online source has over 10,000 items for the garden, patio and outdoor decor including solar landscaping lights under Outdoor Living - Landscape Lighting.

Solar landscaping lights are also best if you want an alternative to lights run from power lines.

We have two puppies who are still at the stage where they like to dig and we were worried that they might chew through power cables buried in the garden.

We liked the solar landscaping lights because we would not have to run power cables in the garden. The saving in installation cost and time would help to make up for the initial greater cost of some solar landscaping lights.

Four landscaping lights designed for the top of fence posts were placed along the fence on the approach to the front door.

The solar landscaping lights have a battery that is charged by sun light.

The lights come on automatically at dusk and stay lit for 8 to 12 hours.

Lighting times depend on the type of light and the amount of sunlight they get during the day to recharge their battery.

The lighting would also not cost us anything in additional charges on our electricity bill.

Since solar landscaping lights have their own rechargeable battery and are self contained, you have complete freedom to place them where ever you want.

With normal cabled electrical lights you can only space them as far apart as the length of the cord that's supplied.

We purchased eight pagoda style solar landscaping lights that were made of aluminium and on stakes that you pushed into the ground.

We placed them around the borders of the garden amongst the shrubs, making sure that the solar cell, that gathers light to recharge the battery, was facing north.

We find the landscaping lights to be very practical as well as being attractive.

They turn on and off automatically and not only provide for safety, but make our garden look extra special at night.

The landscaping lights low to the ground along the borders, do not seem to attract bugs. The lights on top of the fence posts are far enough away from the front door that bugs they attract do not cause problems when coming in or out of the house.

These landscaping lights make the garden look so much better at night. So much so, that we are going to experiment by adding a few strategically placed foot lights to shine up the base of some of our ornamental trees.

The fact that we can move the solar landscaping lights around the garden when ever and where ever we want means that we have complete freedom to try new lighting schemes.

I only wish we had tried landscaping lights a long time ago.

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