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Solar, low-voltage, hard-wired electrical, practical, fun or whimsical garden lights could be ideal for your garden, and it’s likely that you’ll find places for at least a few of those different types of garden lighting.

One single type of fixture in your garden wouldn’t do it justice, and wouldn’t be practical for things like seeing where to walk as well as highlighting special features and places in your garden. The key to getting the right fixtures in the right places is careful planning.

The temptation is often to go to a store or shop online and buy the lights that appeal the most to you. And this is a step, but it’s not the first step. Before you head out, credit card in hand, you should look at your garden carefully and make notes, both during the daytime and at night. If you skip the step of really looking at your garden at night, then how will you really know where lighting is needed or where it would look the best? Looking at it during the day won’t offer the same types of insights as a nighttime examination.

After you look at night to find the places where light is lacking, don’t then neglect to look at those specific places when the sun is up to make sure they’re practical places for garden lighting. If you don’t double-check in the daylight, you could end up with a plan to put walkway stake lights where people tend to cut through your yard, or you might find that you have a boring-looking light in a spot where a whimsical or decorative light would be better, and double as a daytime garden accent.

Don’t neglect areas far away from your house or patio because you can purchase solar garden lights that can go anywhere in your yard without the need to run an unattractive, annoying and potentially dangerous extension cord. If you find that you need more light around your patio and deck, don’t assume you’re going to have to have fixtures installed.

String lighting and low-voltage lighting that both plug into a standard outlet can easily be used if you want to avoid installation fees and hard-wiring light fixtures in place. Of course, you can have permanent fixtures installed, and you might find that you want to in some cases, so don’t limit yourself just to inexpensive, portable fixtures.

It helps to do this type of planning so that you can make a general list of which lights you want to put where; you can even make a sketch to get an idea of how your lighting design will come together.

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