Using lights in the garden have very obvious advantages. Some of it's benefits are

1) Lighting during nighttime
2) Security
3) Decorating purpose
4) Mood creation

However if you home garden is large the cost of installing and maintaining the electrical lighting system can be a costly affair. This is where solar landscaping lights come into picture.

As the name suggest solar lights operate on the electricity that gets converted by photoelectric process with the help of solar cells. When the sunlight falls directly ion the solar panels it converts them into electricity and this electricity gets saved into a battery for future use.

During early stages of the discovery of solar lights the standard lead-acid battery was used to store the electricity. But now, a nickel-cadmium battery for better and longer storing capacity has replaced this. Also instead of using a standard incandescent bulb, which burns out easily, a LED (light emitting diod) is used as a source of light.

If you are thinking of using these solar landscaping lights in your garden then it is necessary first to understand their requirements, because they do have some limitations of use.

Since these solar lights require direct sunlight you cannot obviously use them in areas where there is lot of shadows from tall trees. This will obviously reduce the performance of the solar lights because there won't be any direct sunlight, which can be converted into electricity.

To solve this problem special types of solar landscaping lights have been developed where the batter and the solar panel are away fro the LED connected using wires. In such cases you can install the battery and the solar cell that receives direct sunlight on the terrace or such a location where there won't be any shadows or other interference to direct sunlight. Wiring can be laid throughout the garden to connect all the lights and serve lighting to the entire garden.

Solar landscaping lights are becoming popular amongst homeowners because they claim to save electricity. Before installing them in you garden it is good idea to actually visit a live project where solar lighting has been executed and get a feel of the kid of mood they can create in the landscaping garden.