In the communities around Lorne Park, Ontario, evening-garden events are always a big draw, necessitating landscape lighting and outdoor walkways. Well-landscaped gardens, both commercial and residential, always seem to come alive with drama after dark. Behind the enchanting play of light and shadow in the most successful gardens, there is always a professional landscape designer.
Many homeowners are right to be concerned with landscape safety and install path lighting along their main outdoor walkways. This can result in fairy-like lanes or floodlit expanses, depending on the fixtures and voltage used. There is an art to lighting an outdoor space. Sometimes, it is as important to select which areas remain dark as which should be highlighted.
Bringing a Nightscape to Life
Landscape features, such as specimen trees, fountains, overhead structures, and stone and brick walls are imbued with high drama when properly lit at night. Spotlights, path lights, uplights, and fixtures that wash surfaces all create special effects. However, concerns about light intrusion into adjacent properties should be heeded during the design process. At CedarGate Landscaping, design professionals assist homeowners through the planning process. Dividing fixtures and areas of the yard into different lighting circuits means families can turn on patio lights for evening meals with the flip of a switch. Flipping another switch could light the entire yard for the occasional garden party. Another circuit, controlling just the landscaping lighting along outdoor walkways, might ensure safe passage when necessary. CedarGate designers have many years’ experience with Toronto clients and are the creative force behind some of Ontario’s most dramatic outdoor-lighting designs.
