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8. Caged Fisherman pendant, £54.99, from Very (www.very.co.uk) © Searchlight Electric Ltd


9. LED spiral pear-shaped filament bulb, £29, from Fritz Fryer (www.fritzfryer.co.uk)


GARDEN LIGHTING: • Pay attention to the light hierarchy, maintaining some dark areas.


• Avoid glare by shielding the light source wherever possible.


• Create zones so that it’s not all on or all off at once.


• Create views from the house. • Look at layers and combine uplight, downlight and floor lighting for interest.


• If you have large picture windows looking out over your garden, lighting will reduce the ‘black mirror’ effect – melting the boundaries of the building and bringing the outside in.


can spoil the overall effect of an otherwise lovely light but Fritz Fryer’s spiral LED pear- shaped bulbs [9] are a fantastic combination of sustainable technology and classic design – beautiful, energy-efficient, and with an estimated lifetime of 15,000 hours.


Spotlight on security


It’s not just indoors in autumn and winter that lighting comes into its own. With the right lights in place, gardens can look as good at night as they do during the day, highlighting trees and shrubs with strong silhouettes and safely illuminating pathways, steps and doorways. Sally Stephenson of Owl Lighting says: “Change the focus at night and highlight the good by illuminating a single beautiful tree or piece of sculpture. Lighting a country garden has different considerations to those in a city – it should be soft and subtle, taking care to maintain dark skies and considering the effect on wildlife. In a city garden, it’s the neighbours that should be considered.” Small spike lights in the planting work particularly well by lighting up foliage. They can be simply ‘planted’ in the soil and used to emphasise height, create glow or throw light across paths. The cables should


be protected in flexible conduit with some slack so that the spike can be moved either when gardening or as the planting grows and changes. Warm coloured LED light is low maintenance and cool running so there’s no heat to damage planting, and remote drivers should be hidden in IP-rated boxes so that the cable running to the fitting is low voltage – an important safety consideration when gardening. It’s a good idea to have some lighting


that turns on automatically, too (either on a motion sensor or timer) to light the way from car to house and up the garden path. Wildlife and trees waving in the wind can also trigger these same sensors so it makes sense to be able to adjust the sensitivity of the sensors and have an extra switch that can turn this function off.


11. Box wall light, £469, from Davey Lighting, details as before


10. Zinc lantern string lights, £25, by Cox & Cox (www.coxandcox.co.uk)


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