Different lighting systems may be offered in different voltages. LED lighting is often available as a low voltage installation at 12V and is often a selling point for these systems. To make sure your system works at its best, talk with your supplier and find out which type of transformer would be best for your fixtures and power need requirements. With the correct fitting you can extend the life of a system and find it easier to maintain.

With so many LED contemporary exterior lighting designs available you will be spoilt for choice and will be able to choose a lighting system that could illuminate your pond, garden, soft landscaping and architectural features as well as incorporating a security element should you opt for a light with an integral sensor fitting. Even if the light may not have an integral sensor there are kits compatible with featured styles so that you can avail of this facility too.

Exterior LED lighting for walls comes in sleek, stainless steel fixtures giving a contemporary look. It is also available in flush mounted lighting that comes with a more traditional look. No matter what, you get bright, clear lighting that lasts many years, turning it into a very low maintenance method of adding function and beauty to your garden walls.

LED spike lights are a great exterior LED lighting system. These are affordable and simple to fit. They’re small and perfect for illuminating figurines or particularly pretty plants. LED bollard lighting is somewhat bigger than LED spike lights but still they take up very little space while providing attractive and useful illumination within your garden or along pathways.

Rope lighting is another exterior LED lighting option. They’re durable, easy to install and they are available in ropes of up to 10 metres long. Besides that, they’re available in blue, green, red, amber and either cool or warm white. They add a festive effect to your garden even if it’s raining because they’re waterproof.

Exterior LED lighting is probably the easiest, most cost effective and best ways to further improve the feel of your garden, walkways, porches or almost every other external aspect of your abode.

LED stands for light emitting diode; as the name suggests, the bit that emits the light is the diode. The way a diode works is based on the attraction of opposites; a negative material is separated by a junction from a positive material.

The negative material steals electrons from the positive material when power is applied to the junction – and, lo, there was light! By varying the materials used, the colour of the emitted light can be manipulated.

Now the basic science is out of the way, what you really need to know are the advantages of LED lighting, and here they are:

• LEDs do not need filters to produce coloured light.

• LED light is directional, going exactly where you want it to and no further.

• LED is economical in use; you won’t be paying for a space heater (incandescent bulbs emit 90% of their energy as heat), you will just be paying for lighting.

• Once you have installed an LED you will pay 90% less in running costs in that particular light.

• If you replace all your lights with LEDs, the savings can be substantial.

• LED light bulbs are like old soldiers; they don’t die, they just fade away.

• LED lights live for up to 100,000 hours, so with normal use they only need replacing every eleven years or so..

•LED lights are the only artificial light source that doesn’t contain mercury.

With their cool running, long life, colour possibilities, and economy of use, LED garden lighting is the sensible choice.

Nobody with more than a few years on the clock can fail to be mesmerised by what can be achieved with today’s garden lighting and perhaps most mesmerising of all is the ability to illuminate water from within.

You don’t have to choose colour, of course, for those of us old enough to remember valve radios, even white light within water is pretty special – who would have thought it, lights in water and nobody getting electrocuted.

Before you dive into this brave new world, think awhile about exactly what it is you want to achieve with your lighting – are you a party person; somebody who loves glitz and razzamatazz, or are you a more sensitive soul who longs for the serenity of a tropical lagoon and enough light to read by? Actually this is probably good advice for most things in life – plan before you act.

If you are keen not to burden the environment anymore than necessary, LED pool lights are the ideal choice – they contain no toxic chemicals, they use very little energy, and they won’t need replacing for at least 11 years. Invest a few pounds in a timer and you won’t ever be guilty of leaving them on overnight either!

So, whether you’re in dire need of some R&R beside a tropical lagoon or ready to party to pulsating light and sound, what you really need is LED pool lights.

The low level of ground lights combined with the coloured light potential of LEDs was what led Liverpool, this year’s European City of Culture, to decide on LED lighting to welcome visitors to their city.

And one can hardly blame them in their choice because there are as many varieties of LED ground lights as there are applications for them. LED ground lights are suitable for illuminating:

• garden decking
• garden steps
• garden paths
• internal walkways and passageways
• skirting boards and floor boards

Be creative with your choice of colour and the angle at which you set the lights and you’ll be totally stunned by the light shows you can create. Invest in colour changing LED ground lights and you and your guests will be enthralled by a pure theatre of colour.

The reasons given by the City of Liverpool for using LED ground lights are telling:

• visual impact (“colour not achievable with other technologies”)

• Impressive energy savings and reduction in CO2 emissions not possible with conventional lighting – “traditional floodlighting would easily use at least 30% more energy

• A lifetime of 25 years, making it a truly “fit and forget” installation

If LED ground lights revolutionised the illumination of a city, just think what they could do in your garden!

Want stylish stainless steel ground lights for your decking? You’ll find it here, complete with power supply. What about a sleek, chic stainless steel bollard with matching wall lights? You’ll find those here too.

If you are looking for something a little funkier in your garden lights, perhaps you’ll be taken with the LED plant pots, they’ll certainly be a talking point with your guests!

The thing about LED garden lights is that they are not only versatile and beautiful; they are also ecologically sound when compared with other forms of lighting. They use less energy than fluorescent and incandescent lamps, they do not contain mercury, and they don’t throw out any heat. And from a far less earnest view point, they come in a wonderful array of colours!

Bring colour to your life and your garden, and still be green! Take a look at our range of LED garden lights now.