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Mesmerizing Lighting - Options for Your Pond or Water Garden

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Written by Thomas Fryd

Sunday, 06 April 2008

by ThomasFryd

You can spend hours and hours carefully planning and creating a beautiful water garden, but if you overlook the importance of lighting, you will only be able to view the garden during daylight hours. Adding flowers and fish are important, but so is adding lighting. The mix of light and water is mesmerizing. Reflections and colors dance around, creating an ever changing mix of visual stimulation. Proper lighting will not just show your water garden in low light or night, but it will truly show it off.

When you are choosing which lighting design to use, you have plenty of options. One very unique option is the "Dancing Water" mister. For this system, you attach a misting unit to an underwater pump, which shoots water up and out. Colored lights are included with this system, providing a colorful display of dancing water.

Not all misters are the same. The shape of the nozzle will dictate the pattern that the water will move. No matter which one you choose, you will have the added benefit of circulating water, which will help to reduce maintenance. You can purchase the misters without lights, but it would be a shame not to get the lights as well.

Another great lighting option for your pond or water garden are floating lights. They consist of round balls connected to a waterproof cable. You can adjust their buoyancy by adding water to them. You can buy them individually or in sets.

A simple, easy, and affordable lighting system is to add EggLites. You can use them in the water or out of the water. Predictably, they are lights shaped like eggs. They have interchangeable color lenses to add variety. They are essentially a form of compact spotlight that can be placed basically anywhere you need them.

If you are trying to get your lights to blend into the natural surroundings, rock lights work great. Malibu landscape lighting can be use in your garden, or along a walkway or path. They look like rocks and you cannot see the actual light source. It looks as if it is the rock itself emitting the light.

You can also use underwater lights, which are typically made of plastic, stainless steel, or copper. Colored lenses can be added for effect. The lights can either be secured to a base and placed at the bottom of a pond or mounted onto the side of a pool or hot tub.

There are already plenty of affordable options for lighting, and new innovations and ideas will add to the possibilities in the future. Adding lighting to your water garden is very important. Choose the best option for the style of garden that you wish to create.

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