Garden lighting: how to illuminate shrubs and bushes

How do you experience the outdoor spaces in your homes? Are they places where you enjoy spending time or are they just spaces of passage?

If you are lucky enough to have an outdoor space, you will know how important it is to enhance all of its elements just as you do with indoor spaces. Illuminate garden or terrace with care today gives a home as much prestige as the interior. Life has moved more and more to the outside of our homes or public places of conviviality.

Light is for all intents and purposes an element that enhances the landscape of which Nature is the decor. The lighting of an outdoor space highlights its characteristic features, details, peculiarities, and identity. That is why, outdoor lighting must also reflect the character of the people living in the house.

How to integrate light into green spaces

Lighting a garden requires consideration of several aspects. Each element has its own functionality and aesthetics and enhancing them with light requires careful observation.

In this article we focus on spike mounted spotlight. Outdoor spike lights are ideal to illuminate shrubs and bushes or for highlighting aromatic plants that are not too tall but have significant foliage, creating bright spots in the garden. Adjustable spotlights are ideal for giving value to this type of greenery as they enhance its volumes and shapes by directing the light beam to points of interest.

The advantage of garden spike lights is the ease of installation, a theme that we will return to later in the article. Thanks to the spike, it will be possible to place the light fixture where desired within the ground, moving it according to the needs and changes caused by plant growth.

To illuminate shrubs and shrubby plants with an elegant and suggestive effect, we recommend the use of adjustable LED spotlights that can be pointed and placed at a suitable distance to enhance the foliage, surrounding it. Outdoor spike lights are available in various heights specifically designed to illuminate greenery with different functionalities. The higher the stem of the stake spotlight, the more the light emitted will be able to illuminate the entire shrub or shrubbery plant while minimizing shadows and enhancing its colors.

For planter lights, on the other hand, it is recommended to use spotlights with a low height, 20 cm, which can illuminate details in a pointed mode as many small points of light to give value to the preciousness of plants and flowers.

Camouflage and miniaturization in outdoor lighting

There are two ways to design outdoor lighting, enhancing the lamp body in its form and design as a distinctive element of décor or emphasizing the greenery with light, hiding the light source.

Integrating light into the landscape is a symbolic action, it emphasizes important elements, details, suggests a path.

Outdoor lighting fixtures must be designed to accommodate nature, they are born to give it value and for this reason they cannot ignore its rules. That is why they are flexible, adjustable, and iridescent fixtures.

Camouflage and miniaturization are key aspects to serve lighting design. Lamp bodies must evoke the shapes of Nature to merge with it, becoming elements of the landscape, blending into their surroundings through light, slender shapes and finishes that match the environment.

The intention to achieve complete integration into the landscape, in STRAL finds maximum expression with BENTH, a stainless-steel adjustable spotlight on spike.

Its slender shape allows it to blend into the landscape as a blade of grass. There is no need to paint it green to integrate it into Nature as the HCT finish that covers it is iridescent and allows it to blend in just like a chameleon. Aesthetically balanced by day, poetic in the evening, a balance that allows it extreme versatility. It is the light that creates the atmosphere, but it is the beauty of the object that gives prestige to the environment.

The fact that it is a LED spotlight allows us to limit consumption and experience outdoor spaces for longer, both during the warm season and during the cold months, where looking out the window and observing a well-lit garden gives continuity to the warmth of the house and makes Nature part of the interior decor.

More notable in its footprint, but equally versatile, is the GU10 outdoor spotlight with stainless steel spike from the FOCAL line. Being able to choose the light source to be inserted makes it suitable for a variety of contexts. It does not require elaborate lighting design but makes it extremely easy to use.

Outdoor spotlights easy to install

Stainless steel outdoor adjustable spotlights from BENTH and FOCAL ranges can be installed with a spike and on a mounting plate. The spike is made of AISI 316L stainless steel like the rest of the body and is supplied separately for installation. Its strength and geometry make it ideal for installation in any type of terrain.

The versions on baseplate can be supplied with special draining casing made of polypropylene, which is inserted with two screws to the product. The advantages of installation with casing are many, including that of housing within it the power supply units of the luminaires, which will thus no longer have to be remotely placed. The electrical shunt can also be made inside the casing suitable for DALI power supplies.

Cable protection cover

Often during garden maintenance, it can happen that with grass trimmers accidentally shear the cables of light fixtures, but not only that. UV rays also deteriorate luminaire cables in the long-term, just as it might happen that they are bitten by rodents. To avoid running into these problems, the cables of our luminaires are covered with a burnished stainless steel wire spring. This makes them durable for a long time, as well as the rest of the lamp body, even in their most delicate parts.