Blue Sea Holly is a striking, architectural, often silverized annual or short-lived perennial thistle you will want to grow from seed. Often seed in designer gardens, blue sea holly brings a bold dramatic effect to any garden.
How to Choose the Best Lighting for Your Garden | Gardener's Path
12.06.2023 - 01:02 / gardenerspath.com
How to Choose the Best Lighting for Your GardenFrom 500-watt security lights to a dozen or so strategically placed tea lights on the decking, lighting your garden can be an illuminating business.
So why bother to brighten your garden at night? Well, it’s a cliché but true all the same – many of us now see the garden as an extra room, an extra living space that we want to use and enjoy.
So it stands to reason that we want to spend as much time in it as possible – even when the moon’s out.
There’s a number of different ways you can go about lighting your garden and most of them you should be able to complete with only minimal (although vital) professional help.
Of course you could call in the professionals to do the lot. Mains-powered units are certainly impressive but installing them means a lot of upheaval and mess, as the armored cables need to be buried at least 60cm under your borders.
There’s the cost as well, and don’t forget the impact it will have on the electricity bill.
Solar – the cheapest, quickest, and simplestSolar lights are a good choice and relatively cheap to buy. They’re also a solution if you don’t have an electricity source for the garden and are also very at the end of a long garden, where cables may not reach.
Mounted on spikes, solar units can be easily moved around the garden (best to site them in a sunny spot!) and nowadays are decently bright due advancements in battery, solar panel, and LED bulb technologies.
Whilst they may not powerful enough to brighten up very large features and walls, they’re great used for lining paths, showing where the steps are, and even as spotlights to highlight small to medium landscape details.
I find that many of the units sold at the big box stores are cheaply
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