Glowing stones for landscape design: techniques of lighting decorations footage
The garden in the garden is a place that each owner can turn it into a comfortable area, using interesting ideas modern landscape design. Moreover, the garden can look attractive and mysterious at any time of the day and in sunlight, and at dusk and in the dark of night. Glowing stones as garden decor we have been used relatively recently, they are able to liven up the night landscape, make it colorful and fantastic, but the day framing out a neat rounded stones will make a beautiful flower bed, a pond, a stream or a garden path.
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Stones glowing in the darkness, is performed not only a decorative function. This light source, which is usually enough to navigate the garden in the dark. Located along the walkway around the pond, the benches, they will sparkle a mild and pleasant for the eyes light, not twilight breaking harmony in the garden.
Varieties of glowing stones
Plastic stones with catalysts luminosity
These stones look almost as natural, they accumulate day light and night glow. They weigh much less than natural stones, so they are easy to transport and positioned in the right places. They have a long life, care for them is simple – you can wash the artificial stones are usually detergents. Glowing stones for landscaping you can use when decorating garden ponds – water they are not afraid and form a beautiful illuminated pond, fountain, swimming pool.
Decor flower beds of colorful plastic stones. Stones of different colors and look good in the daytime and at night
Homemade glowing stones
Stones to work you need to choose your own. It is best to use a pebble – it has a beautiful rounded form, which can be used successfully to make any garden object. Pebbles can be placed along walkways and around flower beds, put a pile of stones in the center of the bed, decorate the plants in the garden. How to make glowing stone? To do this, use fluorescent paint sold in DIY stores. After painting, when the paint is dry, on top of the stones are varnished for outdoor use.
You have a wonderful garden decoration, and the funds will be used quite a bit. Fluorescent pigment composition of a paint termostatu, its quality determines the quality of the paint itself. If you purchase good ink, phosphorescent stones at the site will retain its properties for more than ten years.
Hollow polymer design with LEDs inside
Such stones are not too similar to the natural, in the daytime they are translucent and look more like some alien objects.
So look stones with LEDs
LEDs long service life up to ten years. The production of glowing stones on the LEDs produced by special enterprises. Their considerable advantage is the variety of shapes. You can choose for the garden, several varieties of large boulders, pebbles or just pebbles, reminiscent of stone dust. Their scattering is especially beautiful and unusual look in the dark, like stars on the sky.
Such stones are quite expensive, but to make the garden look original, do not have to buy them in large quantity. Sometimes picturesque and glowing boulder at Alpine slide is able to create romantic atmosphere.
A scattering of stone chips in the night garden. It can be used for small objects, narrow paths among the greenery, small flower beds
Examples of decorating
Contour framing objects
Glowing object looks beautiful both near and far distances, or heights. If you like the evening to go to the balcony, you will enjoy the flower bed, which the contour is framed by glowing stones. Contour framing is also well suited for walkways and ponds.
Contour framing the track with green luminous pebbles
Bold contoured frame of the bed and nearby objects in the gravel garden. The stones can be put as a solid line to outline clearly visible, and in the middle to place the stones at some distance from each other
Point framing
If the contour framed by a pile of rocks almost solid, then when you point them is much less, and light of each stone is visible separately. For many, this type of decoration and lighting is preferable to separate the stones look more effectively, and required of them. Someone like dotted pattern of colorful stones along the track, others prefer the glowing strip of same-colored stones.
Spot lighting track with colored stones. Such illumination in the garden can also be arranged, if you gather guests for a holiday — they can surround the gazebo, fountain, benches
Spotlighting stones of the same color. Large glowing semicircular stones — full replacement of lights, only lighting costs will be less
A single object to illuminate a small composition
If the garden is small, one large glowing boulder will look great, illuminating a Bush, tree or other object. His light will be softer and more mysterious than the light of a lantern.
Large configuration of stones today can be found only from polyethylene and with a lamp inside
Patterns of glowing stones
To create patterns stones are used with LEDs. Their flat shape and durable material allows you to walk on them, one can create even a track of some form, which will be particularly nice look in the dark with height. There are also special stones that can be placed in the water and create glowing trails through a small stream or shallow pond.
A trail of translucent stones with LEDs. Using these stones you can put the pattern in one or more series
The trail of glowing stones in the pond can be purely decorative, and this footpath to walk. For this purpose, special durable stones
What is good about this type of lighting and decor?
And that’s what:
- Glowing stones are able to select all the desired objects in the dark and need to use lights when it is no longer what is energy saving.
- Glowing decorative stones are capable of any object in the garden to make an original, to create a special mysterious romantic atmosphere overall.
- The ability to create interesting compositions, mixing stones of different colors, different degrees of luminosity.
- With nightfall, the people who relax in their cozy gardens, in no hurry to lay in bed. We all want to walk in nature under the starry sky, listen to the singing of crickets and cicadas, enjoy the silence of the night. Therefore, the landscape design offers a considerable number of novelties is for dusk and night time. Glowing stones is one the best ways to create a calm peaceful mood, because walking in the garden, mysterious shining lights, so nice. Such decoration is able to create a mood, a positive influence on the psyche.
Using in the garden, glowing stones, you can own hands to create a real tale, which will delight you each time with the onset of dusk. And it does not require large expenditures, you only need to unleash the imagination and imagination that tell where to place the composition of the glowing stones and what stones are best to use.