Add Homely Charm To Your Landscape With Outdoor Lighting For Trees

Creating an attractive light scheme for your house is really a process of keen artistry. Outdoor lighting, when done thoughtfully, can engulf the entire landscape and the unique architecture of your home in a soft ethereal glow, even after sunset. Outdoor lighting is also a wonderful way to showcase your cherished trees, garden and the curb area as well.

A combination of lighting techniques, light intensity, and the varied warmth of the lighting source all affect the aesthetic presentation of your trees.

Add Depth To The Landscape By Uplighting Trees With Outdoor Lighting
Uplighting is one of the most common techniques used to add drama and appeal not just to lit the trees but also to surrounding walls, shrubs and gardens. An uplight mounted in the ground wonderfully illuminates flowering trees and multi-stemmed trees, showing of the myriad blossoms, leaves and the steady trunk.

Creating room for more light
To achieve the appealing effect of light glowing against the deep greens of a tree, it is important to allow adequate room for the installation of outdoor lighting fixtures. Creating more space around the trees allows the light to illuminate the entire plant without being blocked by lower stems. If cutting some trees to create space is not an option, you can place the uplighting source a couple inches away from trees. Directing the uplights toward the trees allows for even illumination from the top to the bottom of the plant. Luma Lighting offers a wide selection of recessed halogen and metal halide, which are ideal for landscape uplighting.

Use Silhouette Lighting To Create An Ethereal Landscape Effect

Few homeowners explore silhouette lighting, yet when done right, this outdoor lighting technique can create an elegant and dramatic effect for your landscape.  Silhouetting entails lighting up a structure, typically a wall, which then reflects its luminosity onto nearby trees and other plantation. To achieve a vivid silhouette, the smooth reflective wall needs to be behind the trees. Ground fixtures are installed parallel to and facing the wall to pull off the desired shadow effect.

Requirements for silhouette lighting
Ideally, this technique works for trees with less dense canopies. This way, the light reflected by the wall can seep through the trees to create a warm and shadowy appeal throughout the outdoors. Silhouetting works especially well if you have trees growing too close to the curb area or along the patio. Lighting a nearby wall using ground fixtures will do a great job of illuminating the plants.


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