The brands of garden lights are almost as numerous and the styles, colors and designs. However, there are several moderately priced brands worth considering as you work on developing the perfect garden lighting plan for your home this season.

Wilshire is a middle-market to upper-end provider of classic exterior lights. They are a name known for quality, with an original focus on sales to the hospitality industry. Now many of their designs are available to the home market, especially their outdoor line of products. From wall sconces to post lights, they offer classic designs to base a top-notch garden light design.

Kichler is another quality provider of outdoor lighting. Produced in Cleveland, Ohio since 1938, Kichler lights can meet every garden landscape light need. Their offerings include something for every need and budget. Kichler is an established company that is not afraid of innovation. They were one of the first mainstream lighting companies to adopt LED lights into their exterior lines. Many of their products are low-voltage and energy star rated. Their outdoor line of products includes wall sconces, pendant lights, pier mounts, deck mounts, spot lights, and recessed well lights.

Nuvo is a slightly less costly line that has an amazing variety of choices available. With twenty two collections and twenty five finishes. From matte black to brushed silver, there is a color and finish for every garden design. The Nuvo garden lights cost 30% less on average than Wilshire and Kichler. Overall reviews of this brand are very positive considering how cost effective much of the line truly manages to be. Their lines include low voltage and security lights as well as the more decorative flush, hanging and wall lights. Their pathway lights are well designed and clean in line.

Unique Arts offers a comprehensive line of high-quality solar garden lights. Their designs vary from an executive post lamp to staked copper lanterns. Many of the solar lights are as decorative as they are functional. From lit house numbers to solar powered crystalline flowers, these energy efficient lights never increase your power bill but provide 8 to 10 hours of lighting to your landscape.

If you’re looking to add some light to your garden, deck, back porch, or back yard, or even the front yard – you are in luck! While it might cost you a little bit (or even a lot) of money, and take some different trial and error set ups to determine what works best, there are a ton of options out there for you to play with when it comes to lighting up the outside of your home, the outside of your deck or porch, and of course the yard and the garden itself.

With so many options on the table, where do you start? Well, that’s a good question. Let’s hold on to it for a minute while we take a look at some of the more popular types of garden and outdoor lights for  home use.

Ground Stakes. These are lights that mount into the ground. Most commonly used in and around specific plants you want to light up as well as being used to light up pathways with lights that are not easily movable. These are also commonly solar powered.

Hanging Lights. Hanging lights – and this usually means solar hanging lights – are awesome for lighting up walkways and pathways. They also add a very classy look to youre garden!

Stair Lights. For the back deck or front porch at night, stairs can be a risky venture. That’s what stair lights were invented for – to light those stairs up so you don’t have to worry about where you’re stepping! Again, solar powered stair lights are popular for this purpose as you don’t have to mess with any wiring!

Spot Lights and Flood Lights. These types of lights are used to cast a wide light over a whole area. Flood lights are more wide whereas spot lights offer a more narrow pinpoint to focus on. As with most types of outdoor lighting made these days, there are both conventional and solar powered spot and flood lights. Because of the high amount of light caste from these units, many people use standard lights over solar light.

Additionally, beyond all these types of fantastic garden and outdoor lights listed above, there are many other types of outdoor or garden lights that we can qualify under the general or misc. category of lighting. Take a look at any home or garden shop and you will see what we mean. Depending on your garden set up, these misc. types of lights could offer the lighting you are looking for to get your garden just right!

If you just want to get your feet wet – or shall I say, if you just want to get your thumb a little green, and you’re just getting started with gardening and lights and how it all works, take a look at what’s called an Aerogarden. An Aerogarden is a self-contained indoor gardening unit that also comes with it’s own lighting system. Observing how these units function could be a great start in understanding the basics of how to work with plants and lighting systems to promote healthy plants and gardens!