Landscape lighting
The yard, after dark.
You spend a lot of evenings looking at your yard — from the lanai, the kitchen window, the drive. Good lighting picks out the palms and the architecture, lights the path to the door and leaves the fixtures out of sight.
- Sarasota & Manatee County
- Free on-site estimate
- You deal with the owner
Light the plants, not the fixtures.
The best landscape lighting is the kind you notice without seeing where it comes from. Fixtures tuck into beds and behind boulders; light washes up a palm trunk or spreads across a path.
We can light a yard we’re redoing, or add lighting to the landscape you already have.
Nothing says Florida quite like it.
A lit palm trunk against a dark sky is the signature look here. One or two fixtures at the base, aimed up through the crown, turn a row of foxtails or a big date palm into a night-time feature.
Walk it from the inside, too.
Curb appeal is one view. The others are from the lanai, the pool and every window you actually look out of. A good layout is checked from inside the house as well as from the street — and avoids glare in anyone’s eyes, including the neighbors’.
Worth knowing before the visit
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Color
Warm white light flatters plants, stucco and pavers. Cool, blue-white light tends to look harsh.
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Safety
Steps, path edges and grade changes come first. Pretty is second.
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Wildlife
On beachfront property, outdoor lighting can be regulated during sea turtle nesting season. Ask about your address.
From Craig's projects
Photos of Craig's finished work, from the original Sarasota Landscaping Inc. showcase and his newer jobs. Tap any photo to see it larger.
01Finished tropical front yard: tall palms over curved beds edged in pavers, mulch, a boulder accent and blue and yellow ground-cover 02Two-story home framed by newly planted palms and layered tropical beds 03Coconut palms in a curved mulched bed beside a brick-paver driveway 04After: the same home with a row of foxtail palms, crotons and fresh mulch beds sweeping around the lawn
Landscape Lighting: common questions
01Can you add lighting to my existing landscape?
02What kind of fixtures do you use?
03Do you light palms?
Related services
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Landscape Design
Designed on your property, around your house, your light and the way you use the yard.
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Palm Trees
Specimen palms sourced through strong nursery relationships, set at the right depth and braced.
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Hardscape
Brick-paver patios, walkways and pool decks that tie the planting to the house.
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Free on-site estimate.
Say what the job is and the city. Craig will set a time to walk the property.