- Location
- Butler, PA
- Completed
- October 2025
- On site
- 1 week
The brief
What we did
An established garden that simply disappeared at dusk. No construction here — the whole project was lighting, which is often the highest-value thing you can do to a garden that is already well planted.
We uplit the mature specimens, washed the stonework, and lit the path separately so it can be on when the display lighting is off.
Scope of work
- Lighting design and zoning
- Specimen tree uplighting
- Stonework wash lighting
- Separately switched path lighting
- Correctly sized transformer with headroom
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Services used
What went into it
By the numbers
- 24
- Fittings installed
- 1 wk
- On site
- 300 W
- Transformer, half spare
- 4 hrs
- Added use per day
The brief
A good garden that
vanished at dusk
An established, well-planted garden that simply disappeared after six o’clock. No construction was needed here at all — the whole project was light.
It is often the highest-value thing you can do to a garden that is already well planted.
- Uplighting on the mature specimens
- Path lit separately from the display
- Transformer sized with headroom to extend
Build sequence
How it was built
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01
Design
Walked the garden after dark and marked what was worth lighting.
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02
Cable
Trenched and sleeved runs to a correctly sized transformer.
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03
Fittings
Solid brass fittings set, aimed and shielded off the boundary.
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04
Zoning
Path circuit split from the display circuit so they switch separately.
Details
What made the difference
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Aimed, not dotted
Fittings placed around what is worth looking at, not spaced along an edge.
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Solid brass
Weathers to a patina rather than corroding out in three seasons.
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Room to grow
Transformer sized at double load so the scheme can be extended.
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Neighbour-friendly
Shielded and angled so no light crosses the boundary.
“We use the garden after work now, which we never did before.”