How to light up your garden: ideas and trends 2025

Spending pleasant evenings in the garden is unforgettable, especially when a beautiful starlit sky provides the backdrop. In this setting, relying on strategic outdoor lighting, especially now that daylight hours are winding down, is essential to extend the usability of your outdoor space after sunset, but also to create a magical atmosphere that invites relaxation and socialising. But what are the trends for 2025 when it comes to illuminating the garden?

Outdoor lighting trends focus on solutions that combine aesthetics and functionality, with an emphasis on sustainability and customisation. In this article we explore the main outdoor lighting options, designed to illuminate different areas of the garden, enhance nature and accentuate architectural and/or decorative features, for unforgettable evenings to be enjoyed all year round.

Illuminating pathways and garden edges

Lighting up paths and walkways is an invitation to explore every corner of the garden, ensuring the proper degree of safety. Among the most popular solutions for the coming year are recessed spot lights. A radiant beam of light can outline walkable areas with extreme subtlety. One tip is to provide spot lights, or alternatively garden lights, also near garages, facilitating the entry and exit of cars.

Outdoor lighting for relaxation, living and dining areas

Much more than simple roofed structures, pergolas represent the heart of every garden: a place where architecture and nature meet, shaping themselves according to the requirements of each space. In order to accommodate the multiple functions the space can take on, even at different times of the day, the key is to opt for dimmering, integrated lighting in the outdoor covered areas. One of these is Ray, a light fixture with a warm light that can be installed on the inner perimeter of bioclimatic pergolas or Pergotenda® Maestro, and which allows the intensity to be adjusted by means of a remote control, adapting the light to the situation and the desired atmosphere.

With a view to greater energy savings, another trend is the use of LED strip lights, which can enhance the unique design of a pergola. This is demonstrated by Imago® and Alba Butterfly, which Corradi offers with LED lights all around the interior perimeter, providing a modular, effective and aesthetically pleasing lighting system.

How to illuminate a green lawn?

If the garden is a stage, the vegetation is the star attraction. Trees, bushes and flowers take on a unique charm when lit in the right way, revealing details and creating chiaroscuro effects that intertwine with the rays of the moon. But how to highlight plant varieties?

It is essential to identify the species and predict their future growth, as well as to take into account their structure, leaf colour and flowers. For instance, tall trees should be illuminated from the bottom upwards by means of an adjustable spot light, in order to enhance their elegance and the intricate intertwining of their branches: the latter, projected onto the surrounding walls, create a particularly atmospheric play of shadows, adding mystery to the outdoor environment.

The opposite is true for plants and shrubs smaller than 80 cm, which require top-down lighting by means of small garden lamps, which accentuate their volumes and colours.

The choice of colours: new lighting 2025

Keeping with the theme of colours, the choice between warm, cold or coloured light is also essential in defining the atmosphere of a garden. Trends in 2025 will explore the use of dynamic and RGB programmable lights, which can be adapted to the occasion and mood of the evening, allowing for changes in tone and intensity at the touch of a button. Corradi's own RGB system is called Experience, a light kit inserted on the tubing supporting the Pergotenda® canvas, which by means of three white or coloured LEDs allows for a wide colour scale, for effective and above all never trivial lighting.

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