Outdoor Lighting: The Best Solar Garden Light In The World

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By Will - May 13th, 2009

It's finally spring. The trees are green, the dogs are happy, the roadsides are white with cherry blossoms. All the women in the world are beautiful.

Soon it will be garden time, if it's not already. If you plan on spending any time outdoors this summer - whether in your vegetable or flower garden, or simply out in your jardin - grilling, playing catch, chasing fireflies or enjoying the company of others - at some point you'll probably realize that a little landscape lighting would come in handy.

So what do you do? Crisscross extension cords across your lawn haphazardly like a miniature model of the American electrical grid? Maybe keep an armada of Tiki torches constantly burning in your back yard - just in case you want to, say, enjoy a late-night drink on the patio, or sacrifice your dog to Quetzalcoatl the feather-serpent?

No, no... don't want either of those.

Now how about a few simple, free-standing, stick-in-the-ground, solar-powered, LED garden lights that never need maintenance, charging, bulb-switching, refueling, or turning on and off? The Brinkmann Solar Accent Light provides all that and more (what more? Well, it comes with a wall-mount bracket along with the ground stake, so you don't actually need to stick it in the ground).

The solar post light of thoughtful, quality construction has a light-sensor that turns it on automatically when it gets dark. It's completely solar-powered, so it will cost you precisely nothing to power, ever. And the light is an LED, so it will last for, well, ever. It sits low to the ground and emanates a soft, ambient, warm-colored light, to quietly illuminate those dark garden pathways. It won't be visible from outer space, and it won't keep your neighbors awake.

It will open up the door to a little springtime romance. Think Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes in the 1933 film adaptation of A Farewell to Arms, the soft ambient light in the Italian garden pathway where Cooper says to Hayes: "Whiskey is very nice... You're very nice, too." It will be just like that.

Comments

I love the idea of solar night lights for the deck...or the lawn

I love the idea of solar night lights for the deck...or the lawn if I'm out there, BUT, alas, can you turn these things off??? I worry about suburbia's obsessive bad habit of lighting up the night and hope that rural power safers & solar fans don't start lighting up their lawns continuously.... I love the moon, the stars and the natural sporadic sparkles of lightening bugs. I take 'light pollution' quite seriously knowing that the dark of night is greatly unknown, unexplored, and unappreciated. PERHAPS one could just pull these solar stakes up when not in use and put them in a dark place, saved for the nights when you need something more than natural lighting outdoors?

Posted by jayne lello on May 18, 2009 7:45pm

I wanted to comment on the

I
wanted to comment on the importance of lighting quality as it relates to our
children and adults. I believe we should strive for more efficient lighting
solutions in schools but I do also have a concern that mandating changes too
fast and the hype that surrounds this issue may result in the wrong
implementation of lighting solutions and in sacrifices in light quality that I
believe is so important to our well being. It takes time for new technologies to
mature and to be fully understood by the professionals like lighting designers,
electrical engineers, architects, interior designers and the public in general.
It takes time to experience the new lighting solutions in order to implement
them correctly into our schools, homes and other lighting projects.
Caution needs to be practiced in banning traditional light sources and time
needs to be given for the industry to transition so that our future does not
look like those futuristic movies that show cold dark streets and spaces with
blue green fluorescent or neon lights.
Respectfully,
Arie Louie

Posted by Anonymous on Feb 23, 2010 7:10pm

As a lighting designer and a

As a lighting designer and a small business owner of
louielighting.com I wanted to comment on the importance of lighting quality as it relates to our children and adults. I believe we should strive for more efficient lighting solutions in schools but I do also have a concern that mandating changes too fast and the hype that surrounds this issue may result in the wrong implementation of lighting solutions and in sacrifices in light quality that I believe is so important to our well being. It takes time for new technologies to mature and to be fully understood by the professionals like lighting designers, electrical engineers, architects, interior designers and the public in general. It takes time to experience the new lighting solutions in order to implement them correctly into our schools, homes and other lighting projects.
Caution needs to be practiced in banning traditional light sources and time needs to be given for the industry to transition so that our future does not look like those futuristic movies that show cold dark streets and spaces with blue green fluorescent or neon lights.
Respectfully,
Arie Louie

Posted by johnsmithactsinfo on Apr 27, 2010 5:35am

Arie, we couldn't agree more

Arie, we couldn't agree more that quality of light and comfort are essential in our living, working and schooling places. That's why we are continually seeking out the best lighting products that enhance our experience. We are very keen on advances in LED technology and will soon be carrying some beautiful new LED products. In terms of banning traditional light sources--I assume you mean incandescents--our beef with those products is that they burn hot and consume a lot of power. We believe this leads to unneccesary costs.

Posted by Lisa on Apr 27, 2010 9:57am