I'm a gardening editor and here's where I'm buying my patio lighting this summer for great savings

A well lit garden seating area with festoon lights in a pergola as well as lights around a rattan day bed
(Image credit: Solar Centre)

When it comes to buying patio lighting for my garden, I always like to think of how I arrange the lighting in my living room. Like many of you, I'm sure you don't just have one main light which you switch on and off.

Your patio should be just the same. There's nothing ambient about flooding your space with the glare from an outdoor security light. Having just recently made over my garden, that's my current set-up, and worse still it's on a motion sensor so every five minutes the conversation stops so everyone can wave their arms around to activate it again.

Teresa Conway
Deputy editor on Homebuilding & Renovating

Teresa was part of a team that launched Easy Gardens in 2018 and worked as the Editor on this magazine. She has extensive experience writing and editing content on gardens and landscaping on brands such as Homes & Gardens, Country Homes & Interiors and Living Etc magazine. She has developed close working relationships with top landscape architects and leading industry experts, and has been exposed to an array of rich content and expertise.

In 2020 Teresa bought her first home. She and her partner worked alongside architects and builders to transform the downstairs area of her two bedroom Victorian house in north London into a usable space for her family. Along the way she learned the stresses, woes and joys of home renovation, and is now looking to her next project, landscaping the back garden.