Options for Pond Lighting


Imagine making every evening a beautiful backyard event.  During the day, the backyard pond is a dazzling thing of beauty.  The sun is shining on your pond, the koi are swimming graceful among the water lilies and other green plants and flowers in your pond.  Think about it for a minute.  Why should you only enjoy your pond during the daylight hours?   Now your pond can be a thing of beauty long after the sun goes down in the evening.  Lighting can be used not only to enhance the beauty of your pond, but to improve safety.  Lighting also enables you to enjoy your pond even after dark.  By properly positioning lights below the water's surface, and around the perimeter of your pond,  you can create an iridescent effect  and enhance the iconicon viewing of your beautiful and graceful prized koi as well as the water lilies, lotus, and other pond plants.  You can also highlight your waterfall and other water features by adding lighting to your pond.

Spotlights can highlight key features such as water falls and fountains.  Add  submerged lights to your pond's bottom, or as part of your pond's initial design, incorporate them in the sides of the pond.  The Alpine LED Pond light shown at left is a birlliant low voiltage light you can use for your pond or water garden and can be used inside or outside the pond.  The spectacular effect this light brings to your garden will enhance any outdoor space.  This versatile light can be used inside or outside the pond and is low energy consumption and long life (up to 10 times longer than conventional lighting) make this the ideal choice for lighting your waterfall, fountain, or fish pond.

You can also use multiple lighting options combined together.  By selecting two, three, or even four various types of lights, you can create a combination that will integriconate all the lighting so that your pond has a single center of attraction in addition to several highlighted icon areas.

There are many innovative kits available today which make adding lighting to your backyard pond easier than ever.  Options include adding decorative lights that are beautiful in their own right and can be added as a focal point, as well as hiding lights so that only you see the effects but not the actual lights.  The programmable solar-powered changing globe shown at right to enhance any water garden, pond, or outdoor feature by using the power of the sun to provide beautiful light  effects.  This unit uses sunlight to charge by day and turns on at night.