Blog – LED Landscape Lighting

Take your patio, deck, garden areas, rock croppings and shrubs from blah to beautiful with a touch of colour. 

We spend a lot of time outdoors this time of year, enjoying our outdoor living spaces and entertaining. There is nothing like a touch of colour to draw the eye to your landscape creations and this can be quickly accomplished with easy to install LED landscape lighting. If you’re thinking of enhancing the ambience of your property this summer, we have some suggestions that are cost effective and energy saving. So where do you begin? If you’re not a professional landscape artist, and most of us are not, that doesn’t mean you cannot create a beautiful design with just a bit of effort and imagination. Step outside after dark and take a close look at the landscape. What areas are stunning in daylight that is completely lost in the dark? Do you have a water feature, a rock cropping, or shrubbery that you would love to enjoy as you’re sitting outside with the family on a warm

summer evening? Imagine tiny star-like flecks of red, green, blue, amber or white light peeking out from amongst the ground cover or greenery. Our tiny LED Microstar is perfect for this task. It is highly reliable and is even covered by a limited lifetime warranty. The Micro stars are single LED lights and operate at 12VDC. A simple two wire connection to a low voltage transformer is all that is required. And for those decks and hand rails, there is a complete line of three LED clusters packaged to function in specific environments. Take a look at the options. There are flat, face mount clusters, back and bulkhead mounts, ball-shaped clusters, and even an elongated Tri-Cluster with a flexible stalk. Made with simple LocLine parts, you can shorten or lengthen the neck as you desire, and point it in any direction. These are great for focusing in on shrubs and other plantings. How many and what kind of LED landscape lights will you need? Keep in mind that a little light goes a long way after dark. We suggest that you start small. You can always add more lighting, but once installed, it’s not so easy to take away the excess. If in doubt, work with one of our technical sales people. If you do start small as we suggest, and decide to add later, we honour any price break that you would have received had you purchased everything at once. If you’re thinking in this direction, please be sure to contact us for advice on your power supply. You will want to initially purchase a power supply that will have enough capacity for everything you may install when all is said and done. The kind of power supply you need will depend also upon where you will locate it. We’re happy to help you with these choices so it’s all good the first time. Not only is LED landscape lighting beautiful to behold, but it’s easy on the electric bill. You can leave your lights on all night, every night and probably not even see a blip on the radar. Let us help you get started today.

By: Mary Wecker