Landscape Outdoor Lighting Kits

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Landscape Outdoor Lighting Kits

• Trees literally give life to the world, because
  without them, there would be no oxygen to
  breathe, and the soil would quickly erode in the
  wind and rain.  As such, tree lighting is more
  than a science.  It is an aesthetic discipline
  that showcases one of mans most primal and
  perhaps first symbols of consciousness.

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• Tree lighting with even the best landscaping
  lighting kits can never exactly be done the same
  way twice any more than two trees can ever
  exactly grow or look the same way.  Residential
  Landscape Lighting and Design has composed this
  article on tree lighting as a general guideline,
  not a hard-fast rulebook on tree lights and
  landscape lighting kit installation.  These
  recommendations are based on an average luminance
  of 10 foot candles and provide suggested wattages
  in landscape lighting kits to achieve what
  lighting designers call moonlight effects, or
  in laymans terms, artificial light with the
  ambient, softer qualities of natural moonlight.

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• Residential Landscape Lighting and Designs
  extensive selection of landscape lighting kits
  and accessories are designed with trees
  preeminently in mind.  We seldom run across a
  municipality or business entities with no trees
  whatsoever on property.  We have yet to find a
  homeowner with no trees in the yard, although we
  are sure there are a few out there somewhere. 
  (For these people we recommend seedlings, as they
  can still be valued clients regardless).  As
  such, almost every landscape tree lighting kit we
  provide contains a down lighting as well as up
  lighting components.

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• Simply stated, these terms are merely directional
  in nature and do not refer to anything mysterious
  or technically complicated about landscape
  lighting kits themselves.  Down Lighting means
  exactly what it saysshining light downward
  toward the ground, and up lighting means to shine
  the light upward.  To effectively show all parts
  of a tree in the dead of night, one must combine
  these two lighting techniques so as to wash the
  tree in light.  This allows viewers to clearly
  see the differentiation between leaves, branches,
  and the trunk regardless of viewing angle.  Both
  sets of lights also have to be positioned in such
  a way as to illuminate the entirety of the trees
  canopy and not just the middle, vertical core. 

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• Landscape lighting is often a very complex and
  highly tedious science that requires professional
  service organizations cross-trained in
  landscaping in addition to their expertise in
  lighting.  Landscape lighting kits, however,
  allow private individuals the opportunity to
  become lighting designers in their own right,
  particularly when it comes to lighting their
  favorite trees in both front and back yards. 
  Provided that one is physically fit enough to
  climb a tree, or to use environmentally safe
  tools that will not damage the tree, lighting and
  landscaping kits can transform a dark tree line
  along a fence or wall into an illuminated natural
  edifice of organic browns and living green.  In
  the fall, the changing colors of leaves adds even
  more effect through Natures own hand, and even
  in the death of winter a well-lighted tree still
  speaks to the potential for new life in the
  Spring to come. 

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• Just as light and life form a cycle of rebirth
  and life, so too does the choice and installation
  of a landscape lighting kit represent a cycle of
  design, aesthetic, and effect.  With a little
  simple math, one can determine tree canopy size
  by multiplying the width and height of the tree
  in feet.  Then, by assessing the density of
  foliage and using ones own subjective judgment
  to determine exactly how much emulated moonlight
  will be desirable for that particular tree,

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• choosing the appropriate landscape lighting kit
  simply becomes a matter of selecting from one of
  our lists in this category.  RLLD has included a
  corresponding chart to help lighting designers
  and private individuals alike select the precise
  wattage level required for a tree of particular
  size and the necessary luminance to achieve
  optimal visibility according to ones own outdoor
  decorative style and taste

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• For detailed product specifications, click on any
  of our landscape lighted kits inventoried in this
  section of our website.  Use our Ask an Expert
  web forum to get more information on the benefits
  and proper use of mercury vapor and metal halide
  lights.  RLLD lighting specialist will help any
  serious inquirer at no cost via email or over the
  phone at 800-239-2939.  Contact us now either
  way, and let the light shine on the worlds most
  necessary and beloved form of vegetation in your
  personal landscape tonight.