Summer outdoor living areas become much more inviting in the evening when temperatures cool a bit, but the hitch then is that you can’t see what’s around very well (which may be a good thing if your ...

The best landscape lighting techniques can be used to design a creative look for your garden at night that will turn it into an enchanting space. There are several tricks that are easy to master and ...

Q: I have a set of Malibu landscape lights in my backyard, and several of them don’t work. I have changed the light bulbs, but still there’s no light. It seems to me that replacing the entire system ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

-- Succulent gardens work best with the "moonlight" effect, which mimics the natural light of the desert. Use a daylight-blue filter to enhance the green, blue-green and silvery green hues of the ...

Landscape lighting can bring the outdoors inside at night by making your yard visible from windows. Lighting also makes it easier and safer to travel through your landscape after dark. Lighted ...

Forget what you remember about your parents’ outdoor lights. The days of heavy, overbearing, even noisy outdoor lighting are over. LED exterior lighting is all the rage. Becoming popular starting ...