Landscaping - the need to design an attractive site. One of the important techniques includes the illumination of trees and shrubs. Such manipulations can give the night landscape an attractive look and good mood. When designing any site in a central place are plants that are often not visible in the dark. But in order to maintain the attractiveness of the entire garden and various decorative plantings, designers use the illumination of trees. It allows you to emphasize all the highlights of the design.
The main tasks and types of garden lighting
Landscaping includes many important components, among which one of the first places is lighting of the territory. All lighting elements can be divided into 2 categories: decorative and functional.
Functional or utility lighting
Functional street lighting is designed to safely move around the area at night. This includes the front and entrance areas, the main paths in the garden. When designing functional lighting, be sure to consider such factors:
- Lighting devices must be arranged so that the boundaries of the site are visible. This contributes to psychological comfort.
- The equipment should be high-quality, durable, frost-resistant, but simple and easy to operate.
- It is imperative to maintain harmony between the lighting of paths and other objects of the garden. After all, it’s rather inconvenient to first move along an apparently lit path to the entrance to the building with dim light. It is more comfortable to go from a less lit place to a bright object. Good lighting should be located in accent places - arbors, building facade, decorative compositions.
Decorative lighting
The night garden can be unusually beautiful. Properly organized, thoughtful lighting can create a special charm for a personal plot. In this way, you can unrecognizably transform the unique beauty of the surrounding nature, which is radically different from the daily image of the garden.
The main task of decorative lighting is to embellish the territory, emphasize all the advantages of plants, which we often do not notice during the day. But you should also consider such points:
- The spacious area can be zoned using lighting fixtures. A small garden can, on the contrary, be visually expanded in this way. When choosing lighting fixtures, it should be borne in mind that cold light visually moves objects away, while warm light brings them closer.
- Lighting devices in places for rest is better to choose with soft diffused light. So you can create an atmosphere of comfort and warmth.
- Would you like to use multi-colored lamps in lighting the territory? Then give preference to 2-3 colors that will harmoniously complement each other. Carefully choose a bright white light. It can take your garden life. With brown and red light should also be careful.
- LED ribbons, garlands will help create a festive atmosphere. They should be used dosed so as not to oversaturate the space. Experts recommend the use of such lighting elements for individual objects.
Lighting benefits
Proceed with the illumination of plants is necessary immediately after completion of all work on the improvement of the territory. All lush greenery must be highlighted. This is a necessary and uncomplicated matter. The main thing is to choose the right lighting fixtures and place them in the right place.
Lighting alleys, gardens and trees can solve, as we already learned, several tasks at once:
- Decorative, aesthetic. Good light perfectly decorates the homestead area with the right accents.
- Functional. Lighting of the territory allows you to navigate well in space.
There are several options for lighting home gardens. Everyone knows that street lighting of trees refers to landscape lighting. Therefore, ideally, it should be combined with other light sources.
Methods of mounting tree lights
To date, there are many options for highlighting trees. But from the whole variety there are 3 most common methods of installing lighting fixtures:
- Lighting sources are placed in foliage. In this case, lamps of different colors are often used - belt light.
- Lighting of plants occurs with the help of lamps and spotlights. The latter are suspended from special supports or placed on the ground. Lamps are often placed on the ground. Their design is reliably protected from moisture.
- LED backlighting is especially true on New Year's holidays. Use light garlands play-light, clip-light, etc.
All lighting fixtures must be securely fixed. Some of them are on the ground, supports, adjacent structures, and others on crowns and trunks.
Features of lighting trees with spotlights
A suitable way to illuminate trees with spotlights is selected depending on the chosen target. For example, if the main goal is to emphasize the texture, strength and beauty of the tree trunk, then the lighting device must be placed on the ground closer to the trunk. In addition, it is better to choose a cool white light. Such decorative illumination in the direction from the bottom up for trees with several trunks looks fantastically beautiful.
Trees with a dense crown or ate better to illuminate from afar. Such large trees can demonstrate their greatness and beauty. If you spotlight them from different directions from the lawn with several spotlights, you can get an incredible picture at night. Often, experts use about 3 spotlights.
If you find yourself a happy owner of a large garden, you can use several types of tree lights with LED, silhouette floodlights. For this, it is enough to install the lighting device behind a shrub or behind a tree. This way of highlighting creates a romantic atmosphere.
Some designers use a way to illuminate the plant from the inside. For this, the lighting device is installed in the center of the bush. When lighting a tree, one of the most attractive and aesthetic branches is chosen. It should also be noted that this method provides only partial illumination of a particular fragment of the plant.
Thinking about romantic landscapes at night, do not forget that during the day the trees will look very different. Therefore, you should carefully consider all the ways of supplying power to the spotlights. Everything should be aesthetically pleasing and attractive.
Flashlight
The traditional and familiar way of lighting is to illuminate the trees from above. For this, lanterns are often used. It is mounted on a reliable and stable support. Often use LED or metal halide floodlights.
Tall, voluminous trees are hard enough to light from above. Therefore, they often illuminate the lower part of the crown of the plant. Sometimes a ray of light is directed from the lawn to a specific fragment of the plant.
Illumination of plants with a lamp
First you need to decide which side you plan to direct the light from. A spotlight to illuminate the trees is directed from below, so that the stream of light falls at a certain angle. To achieve the best effect allows the use of multiple LED or halogen sources. In this case, there are many options for the direction of the light beam.
To date, the spike lighting fixture is especially popular due to its ease of use. It consists of a sharp wedge that sticks into the ground. "Spike" is used to illuminate small plants. But they well emphasize the necessary sides of shrubs or small trees. Often these lamps are used at parties and celebrations, so they relate to temporary landscape lighting.
The lightness and airiness of a tree can also be emphasized with the help of proper light. To do this, fixtures are fixed on the branches of the plant, directing the flow of light into the object.
If the crown of the tree is dense, it is illuminated from the side by large LED spotlights. Illumination of trees with a transparent crown involves the installation of devices close in such a way that the light stream is directed upward and well illuminated the leaves.
You can also play with the shadow of the plant. It should be clearly visible on the vertical wall of the building, which is nearby. Such a magical pattern can be obtained by removing the lamp from the plant at a greater distance.
Spotlights are often installed under a tree.
All lighting fixtures for illuminating trees help visually highlight the most attractive places in the landscape. Such illumination allows you to plunge into a fairy-tale world, full of romance and mysteries.
Using LED lights
Decorative lighting of trees with LED garlands is especially popular in the winter. They are divided into "fruits" and "leaves." They differ from other lighting devices in that they are mounted directly on a tree - a trunk or branches. Duralight light cords and clip-light garlands are especially popular.
“Fruits” is a garland with large, rare lanterns. When illuminated with LEDs, the illusion is created that these rare, bright lanterns are the fruits of the plant.
"Leaves" - a garland with often located tiny bulbs that falsely resemble luminous leaves.
Landscape illumination of trees with LED sources has many advantages:
- long term of operation;
- resistant to weather conditions;
- economical;
- illuminate plants with various bright shades;
- characterized by a variety of forms (rain, light cord, curtain, fringe, mesh, figures in the form of icicles and balls, etc.);
- you can translate any fantasy into reality.
Conclusion
Choosing the right lighting fixtures and their location allows you to originally decorate large and small squares, city parks and household plots. Illumination of trees with LED searchlights, garlands, lanterns and lamps will be able to transport you at night to the fabulous world of shadows. Such lighting structures are safe and durable. They will always give you a good, festive mood.