Solar Garden Lighting - Saving You Money and Lowering Your Carbon Footprint!

Solar Garden Lighting Can Save You Money


For the green thumb and gardening enthusiasts, proper lighting for your beloved garden is truly a serious endeavour.  Appropriate and well-planned lighting can make a big difference in illuminating and highlighting the best features of your garden.

It brings in a stroke of magic as it brightens the garden and makes it alive even at night.  The perfect choice of lights and their proper installation as ground lights, up-lights and water highlights or even floodlights can produce different moods and dramatic effects.

However, there are several things to note and consider when deciding for and choosing a good lighting system for your garden. It needs to be planned accordingly and must abide by Australian state safety standards for electric use (SA, VIC,WA etc). It is best not to attempt to do any major lighting plan and installation on your own.  You may need to consult an electrician or a lighting expert for specific jobs that would need expert knowledge and experience.

Lighting installation doesn't have to be very sophisticated and costly.  However, a major decision on whether to opt for electricity-powered or solar-powered lighting needs to be made as part of the final design that you want for your garden.  Here we discuss how solar garden-lighting, despite its relatively higher price would be the wiser option compared to wired and electricity-powered garden lighting.

Modern age gardening technology has made it possible for solar lighting to be almost as good as wired and powered setups because some models now have the capability of charging power enough to produce light during the entire night time period. The first advantage of the solar powered lighting system is its safety, as no extensive electrical wiring is needed and solar batteries are usually easier and safer to install or pre-installed.

Solar garden lighting is also more flexible and is ideal for those that usually tend to rearrange their garden set-up occasionally.  Since there is no need to connect the fittings on sockets and wirings, it is very easy to mount and set-up.  Some may even be used as portable lights that you can carry around your garden. 

Modern models of solar powered garden lights have also been made to be more effective and almost the equivalent of electrically powered lighting, in terms of quality and brightness. Although the highest intensity of lighting may not be produced and generated from most solar garden lighting, this is not a major concern for most gardeners.

The most obvious and practical advantage of the solar powered lighting over the traditional wired ones is that it enables the user to save considerable money, year after year, and, although solar powered garden lighting may sometimes be more expensive than the regular powered lighting system, it is usually more cost-efficient in the long run as it will save you money on your regular electricity bills because it totally sources its power from the sun.

Technology has really made it advantageous and more cost-efficient for the modern gardener to maintain a beautifully well lit garden, affordably. With solar powered garden lighting, traditional garden lighting which makes use of electricity may soon become a thing of the past.

Here's to a Green Garden! :)