Best solar powered lighting devices for your garden

For the eco-conscious people, who love gardening, the solar powered lighting devices are a neat solution to add to the overall ambiance of their gardens. These eco-friendly lighting solutions not only look good, but also help reduce your home's total energy cost. During the daytime, the solar power charges the batteries of these lighting devices, which glow at night to make your garden look beautiful. Here, we have some of the coolest solar powered lighting devices for your garden.

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1. IKEA's Solar Power Lamps

IKEA's Colorful Solar Power Lamps

Sweden based company IKEA, which excels in home decors has introduced to us ‘Solvinden’, the solar powered lamps. You can choose the lamps from four different colours- black, white, lime green, and teal. The ‘Solvinden’ incorporates three AA rechargeable batteries of 1.2 V and an LED bulb that can glow well with this power. The batteries take around 9-12 hrs for getting fully charged and can be illuminated for four hours. The batteries have to be renewed every two years. The lamp shade is strong enough to be placed outside and also can decorate your garden as well.

Price $19.99 USD

2. Firewinder

Firewinder

This eco-friendly lighting system called firewinder is powered by wind instead of traditional solar energy. The helical device is shaped as a corkscrew. The 14 LEDs embedded in it, glows when it experiences the wind blowing. The 65 cm long device is made out of lightweight recyclable materials. It can add to the beauty of the garden just when the wind sways.

3. Solar Garden Lights

Solar Garden Lights

These lightning systems do not require any extra energy source to power them. The Solar Garden Lights just require sun exposure to charge up the batteries already installed in them. No extra wiring is required as these systems do not make use of any electricity. The Solar Garden Lights are available in various forms like solar path lights, solar pole lamps, solar floating pond lights etc.

4. Solar Powered Magic Globe Light

Magic Globe Light

The Solar Powered Magic Globe light can be placed on any kind of surface and can even be suspended to float in water. The most interesting feature of this globe is that it is solar powered and the PV panel is hidden at the globe’s base, that recharges the Ni-MH batteries. Ion being fully charged the LEDs can glow for 12 hours. The RGB LEDs used to emit light illuminate with a single colour or with vivid colors. The lights add to the beauty of the garden as the lighten up emitting rainbow colors in the night.

Price $47.5 USD

5. Patio Umbrella

Solar Powered Lighted Patio Umbrella

The Solar Powered Lighted Patio Umbrella is meant for people who love to spend their time under the sun. During the day it works like an umbrella providing you shelter while soaking up the sun’s energy through the extremely efficient solar panel built onto the top of the umbrella. This recharges the Ni-Mh battery that illuminates the 24 LEDs for 8 hours at night. The umbrella is made up of durable polyester which is both UV and water resistant. The patio umbrella base made of powder coated aluminum is therefore strong and corrosion proof.

Price $249.95 USD

6. Flower Light

solar- flower light

Solar Powered LED flower light, collects the solar energy during the day in the solar panels and recharges internal 600mA NI-CD storage battery to illuminate the three LEDs placed in each of the three flower shaped heads. The flower light, priced at around $45, can glow for eight hours.

7. Hexagon Plastic Solar Garden Light

Hexagon Plastic Solar Garden Light

These Hexagon Plastic Solar Garden Lights are the cheapest of all solar lighting systems in the market. For under $10 a unit you get an efficient lighting system without increasing your electricity bills and of course these garden lights will come with beautiful designs to add to the beauty of your garden. These ligh6ting systems are easy to install and because they only require solar energy to illuminate the garden at night, there is no need for any sort of wiring or electric outlets.

8. Wild Grass Solar Garden Lights

Wild Grass LED Lights

The Wild Grass LED Lights priced for $22.95 are the beautiful and environment friendly lighting features for your garden. When installed in your garden, the 0.2 watt PV panel takes 8 hours of sunlight and charges a rechargeable NiMH battery 500mAh. The three LED bulbs planted each in the 3 sprigs of fiber optic lights can automatically illuminate a calm and pleasing green light for 6 hours at night. The grass sprigs can be bended according to your wish and can be positioned in your garden wherever you want it.

9. Solar Sun Jar Light

DIY Solar Sun Jar Light

Solar lights add a green beauty to your garden. You can create the sustainable solar light jars yourself for your garden, pool, porch etc. All you require is a glass jar, solar garden light and AA sized rechargeable batteries. The solar panels will harvest the sunlight during the day and will charge the batteries to illuminate the solar jar. You can further decorate the solar jar to make it look more beautiful.

10. Leaf Lantern

Leaf lantern

This beautiful and sustainable lighting source named as Leaf Lantern has been designed by Sam Li. It can be used as a whole light unit or can split into individual parts to be used as a candle. Inspired by the bio mimicry of leaves, each portion of the device soak up the sun light during the day but do not make use of batteries. The stored solar energy can charge you electronic gadgets. You just have to place the gadget on the charged inductive plate to boost it up with green energy.