Pond Lights – Double Your Enjoyment

Pond lights can really set the mood to your water garden. They make the pond accessible during the day and the evening. Once you install pond lights you’ll find a whole new atmosphere by which to enjoy your water garden. There’s something quite lovely about spending warm summer nights admiring your beautifully illuminated water garden.

These days there are so many options with pond lights, you might not know where to start. The best place to start is by looking at how your pond integrates with the rest of your garden. This is especially important if you have a still pond. Don’t make the mistake of focusing your pond lights on the pond itself. Unless you have crystal clear water, this will only draw attention to any sunken impurities in your pond. Either focus your pond lights slightly upwards, or focus them on the surrounding garden.

Pond lights come in lots of different forms and colors. You can get pond lights with different colored lenses, either as individual lights or in groups of lights. Some lights even come with interchangeable colored lenses. The great thing about pond lights is that they are easily disguised. You can get rock lights that are shaped like animals such as frogs and turtles. These house the lights inside the body of the animal, so that during the day you don’t see any unsightly metal casings. You can also get submerged lights (which sit at the bottom of the pond), and floating pond lights that are shaped like bowls.

Electricity and water don’t mix so to play it safe it’s best to go for a 12 volt lighting system. You might even want to consider solar lighting. Not only is solar lighting safe, it is also energy efficient and free of any unsightly cords and cables.

During the day the floating solar pond lights will use the power from the sun and then when the day becomes dark a feeler switches the lights on.  These floating pond lights usually come in a pastel blue or with the more standard white light. The rate of illumination of the solar pond lights depends on how much money you wish to spend.  The illumination time of this type of pond lighting depends on the storage capacity of the solar pond lights.