I was asked by the lovely Angela Baptiste if I would make a video showing my garden lighting so I am very happy to oblige.
I have downlights installed all along the fences, cabin and the back of my bungalow, plus Richard even installed a light in my greenhouse. It’s all very beautiful but unfortunately, although it looks very bright at night, it just doesn’t look very bright on video, but I filmed it all at dusk an hour before, so hopefully you can get an idea of what it looks like.
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I had a request from the lovely Angela, Angela Baptiste, and Angela asked me would I show you all
what my garden lighting's like, so yes Angela, of course, that's a very good idea.
So Richard put these lights in, it's not properly dark yet so I'll do it now because I'm not sure
how the the lights will look when it's really dark, but yes Richard put all these lights in,
he didn't show putting them in because he is not a qualified electrician. In fact I have
a light in the greenhouse as well so I should put that one on as well. Let's do that, there we go,
we have a light in the greenhouse too, so why not light everything up, yes, so we have lovely down
lights that he's installed and my greenhouse light and it's very pretty at night. I'll do it now,
as I say, I'll do it now and then we'll do it maybe in about an hour when it is properly dark.
This lamppost container, I don't think it's going to light up tonight because we've had no sun,
we've had rain and obviously it's solar powered so I don't think that's going to come on, I think
it would have come on by now, but yes, beautiful lighting, makes everything look very pretty.
So Angela, this is for you and for everyone and thank you for asking, that's a very good idea.
So here's my garden lighting, now this is the view, another person asked me,
my new seat, what's your view from your new seat? This is my view from my new little garden bench
and I do sit here quite a lot and now Richard has sunk it in into the soil more because if
you saw one of my videos recently, it was the video of announcing the winners of my giveaway
when I explained that it had rained and rained and rained and I sat on this new bench and
basically I had a cup of tea in my hand and as I sat on this bench, the bench sunk right into the
ground and basically I went like that, fell right on my back and funnily enough my cup of tea
was still perfectly in my hand and I didn't spill a drop. So here's my garden lighting
and I'll do it again in maybe an hour's time when it's properly light, don't know what that will
look like, but yes he did a fabulous job, he always does a fabulous job, Richard is brilliant,
there you go, that's my lighting, let's do it again in an hour's time,
Lottie and Lucy are enjoying the garden, we'll come back in an hour and it's dark now so let's
have a look, I don't know how much you're going to be able to see but let's have a look in the dark,
so here we are in the dark, now I don't know how much you're going to be able to see,
so it looks very dark to me but when I look at the video it might not look, at the moment I can
just see a couple of spotlights so I don't know how successful this is, I don't think it's very
successful at all, so I'm glad I filmed it before in the dusk because I don't think,
I don't think you can see anything at the moment, but anyway this is my garden at night time,
Lottie would sit out here all day and all night if she could, I don't think this is coming out
very well but anyway you can tell it would be absolutely pitch black if I didn't have these
lights, I don't think you could see very much at all then, it looks lighter to me than it does in
the video I think, I need to watch the video of course, but still a good idea, we all need garden
lighting otherwise it would be completely pitch black but I think for you it's probably a lot of
just spotlights so just as well I did do a bit of filming in dusk as well, thank you Angela for
suggesting that, I'm Jeannette, I'm The Enthusiastic Gardener, have fun in your gardens, take care and
thanks for watching, bye!