1. Landscape Lighting
Plant: Blue Atlas Cedar
Term: Low-voltage Systems

2. Blue Atlas Cedar
• Small Evergreen Tree
• USDA Zones 6-9
• Height 10’+
• Full sun to part-shade
• Weeping & erect varieties
• Need to stake when planted
• Start weeping growth pattern after several years
• Specimen Plant – used in contemporary gardens

3. Landscape lighting
• Landscape lighting is the creation of a
lighting effect, not the display of lighting
fixtures.
• Purposes ranging from aesthetics to
safety and security.
• The illumination of gardens, trees,
shrubbery and ground cover extends the
beauty of nature into the nighttime and
enhances your environment and property.

4. Low-Voltage Lighting
• Most landscape lighting is low voltage
(12V).
• Not intended to provide bright work or
security light
• Accents plants, walkways, and
architectural features

5. System
• Lights are wired to a timer
• Lines are buried
• Lights clip into wire
• Types
– Decks
– Paths
– Patios
– Trees – up or down

6. Solar Lights
• Inexpensive
• Shorter life-span
• Led light, lower intensity
• Don’t require wiring or timers
• Work well for path lighting
• Turn on automatically when dark

7. Deck lighting
• Provides accent lighting for entertaining
• Highlights steps, entrances & exits

8. Path Lights
• Shines light down to path for safe footing
at night.

9. Pool & Patio

10. Tree Lighting
• Spot lights from ground up
• Lights in trees casting down