Outdoor string lights have become a popular decorative element in outdoor living. It doesn’t matter if it’s summer and you’re in a garden or winter and you’re putting up lights for Christmas. These lights have become part of our landscapes and our nightscapes.
Outdoor string lighting is known by a few different names – outdoor fairy lights, garden string lights, and patio string lights being among them. And they are probably most popularly known by the time of year we see them most – Christmas lights. They are all one and the same, even if they can have slightly different uses.
Summer is a popular time for outdoor garden lights. Since we’re living outside more in the summer, it’s natural that we’d want some light to see by. Sure, traditional lighting is fine, but if you want to set a mood, these tiny lights do it wonderfully well. Summer is also a time when the garden is in bloom and fragrant. Garden string lights can help when you want to accent your garden and perhaps even define paths.
If you like light sculptures, then you’ll want to check out some outdoor string lighting. For example, arches make wonderful night lights, as does garden statuary. Then of course, there are the wire forms to which you can attach the lights and create a fantastic world in the darkness of night.
In some of the above examples, you might not have an electrical outlet nearby, and you might not want to run a long extension cord in order to have the lighting. If that’s the case, you may want to think about solar-powered garden lights. By gathering and storing the sun’s energy by day, it can transform your landscape at night. The only thing you’ll want to remember is that in order to use this kind of power, the solar panels need to be fully exposed to the sun in order to get charged.
If you’re just looking for mood lighting, though, you can’t do better than the standard patio string lights. These plug into an electrical socket and serve two purposes – actual lighting and atmosphere. They can truly live up to one of their alternate names – outdoor fairy lights, with their tiny twinkles of light.
Outdoor string lights, however, come to the forefront during the winter holidays. Christmas lights in an array of colors, sizes, and shapes – outline houses, trees, and wire forms. And of course, it’s not just strings of lights that you can find – it’s icicles, cascades, and nets that can decorate the outdoors along with other shapes and forms. While white fairy lights may be popular during the rest of the year, Christmas lights have delightful colors.
If you haven’t explored putting up outdoor lighting at times other than Christmas, then it’s time to get some and light up your night!
