Photo/Illustration: Michelle Gervais
Garden designer Laura Crockett created this garden lantern from a reclaimed streetlight. Placing it next to a water feature more than doubles its appeal as the sun goes down. Water’s not just for sound and movement in a garden, it’s a useful tool to reflect not only the sky, but also great views and objects in your garden.
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Comments
i just LOVE this romantic notion. It is the closest thing i have seen to the effects of the floating bags-holding- candles that are the amazing highlight of the Japanese Lantern festival held every July here at Forest Hills Cemetery, to remember the dead. now this is one water light I really want to duplicate here at the 'retum. i guess the next thing is to find a source for reproduction street lamps...
thanks so much for this inspiration,Laura.
best,
mindy
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Wow, good idea on re-using something but I bet that uses a TON of electricity if it used to be a street lamp. Seems like more of a disservice to the earth just to have some light in your garden at night. Not to mention it interfering with your plants' photoperiodism.
apnonimus, it's not the entire instrument, it's just the translucent lampcover.
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