Jun 05 2009
Dragonfly Garden Lights
Designing your landscape lighting plan doesn’t have to mean just plain lights to brighten your yard, you can create your own enchanted garden area using dragonfly garden lights and other characters and animals that are also garden lights.
Dragonfly garden lights are available in both solar powered and electrically hard-wired lights. The popularity of dragonflies has always been immense. Various cultures believe different things about them. The Navaho Indians believe the dragonfly symbolizes pure water. Japanese warriors viewed it as a symbol of strength.
Whether you like dragonflies for their ancient meanings or just their beauty, they make wonderful additions to the garden and pool area. You can add dragonfly garden lights to bushes and hedges making them appear to be perched there.
Silver Mesh Dragonfly Outdoor Garden Lights from TCH.net
During the daylight hours the dragonflies will add an earthy decorative touch. When the sun goes down the dragonflies will glow with subtle light adding a charming touch to your landscape. If you have water features in your yard, such as a pond or pool, you can purchase floating, solar garden lights. As these lights float across the pool, you and your guests will be delighted with how they appear to glide across the water.
Dragonfly garden lights are also available that are decorative pieces, light up at night, and function as water sprinklers. In addition to being functional they are quite decorative, some are made using fiber optics which creates a color changing light at night.
These unique garden lights are available in string lights that give the appearance of dragonflies in flight, staked lights that can be grouped in clusters or placed strategically throughout shrubbery and as larger individual lights that stand alone.
Decorating with garden lights in the shape and style of animals or other objects is not a new concept. Fairies, angels, and garden gnomes have been garden favorites for many years. Often these are found holding gazing balls that light up at dusk.
Animal garden lights can also be seen in gardens in the form of turtles, frogs, ladybugs and many more. Garden light suppliers realized that decorating with lights is more than plain lights and have created lighting for every taste and personality.
Finding the variety of dragonfly garden lights that are available is as simple as a search of the Internet. You can order them from specialty shops, home and garden shops and craftsman who hand make them. Many local home improvement and home furnishing stores carry dragonfly garden lights.
Dragonfly garden lights are full of form and function. They bring beauty and light to your garden areas creating enchanted areas you and your guests can enjoy on warm summer nights under the stars.
-Sharon V Chapman