Have you ever thought about making your garden a nighttime dream? With a few changes and some fantastic features you can make your garden a tremendous place to spend an evening. Build an atmosphere and design the perfect spot for drinks with friends or a beautiful evening in the moonlight with family. Here are some of the best ways to make your garden a gorgeous place to gaze at the stars.
Fire Feature
If you’re looking for a modern option to make your garden look spectacular in the evening, consider a fire feature. A fire feature can be used as an accessory in a seating area or even a centrepiece attraction. Available in all shapes and sizes fire features can suit every type of design choice. Open, spherical fire sculptures are a stunning choice and are certain to impress any guests you have over in the evening.
Lanterns
Adding some lanterns around your garden is a rustic choice and will provide your garden area with plenty of character. The shaded light from lanterns will also provide ambience and a soothing glow. Lanterns can be electronic or more traditional depending on your preference. If you have trees in your garden, you could consider hanging the lanterns from the branches. Alternatively, you could also use wiring to hang Chinese lanterns overhead. This can provide a mystical and magical design to your garden through the evening.
Light Up Water Features
Rather than choosing a fire feature, you can instead use one of the other elements to bring more beauty to your garden at night. Light up water features are a great choice and can provide an eye-catching detail underneath a dark, cloudless sky. Many Kelkay water features light up with LEDs in the water bowls. Other Kelkay products will look beautiful, catching the light from other sources around your garden such as the lights overhead. With a Kelkay easy fountain, the moving water also provides a mystical quality to your nighttime garden environment.
Evening-Scented Flowers
Don’t just focus on aesthetic changes to your garden for nighttime. Consider other senses as well such as smell. You can add to the night atmosphere by selecting and planting flowers that release fragrances when the sun sets. Some flowers do this to attract nighttime pollinators such as moths. These include Moonflower, Nicotianas and Dianthus.
Don’t Forget Seating
If you are planning to invite guest over to enjoy your garden through the evening, do make sure that you think about seating. A great idea would be to match the furniture to the type of lighting. For instance with more traditional lanterns, opt for rustic seating such as wooden benches.
Choose White Flowers
When selecting flowers for a nighttime garden, make sure you think about the colours and shades. White flowers are a great choice because in the dark the petals of these flowers seem to glow.
Wind Chimes
Finally, you can think about adding some wind chimes to the garden, hanging them from the branches of trees or attaching them to walls and fences. The sweet sound as the soft evening wind blows through these chimes will make your night garden a place that provides serenity.