Category Buying Guides

Walk down any suburban sidewalk installed between 2005 and 2018 and you will see them: rows of plastic path lights…

Most beekeeping happens in daylight, but the moments you actually need a light at the apiary come at the worst…

The question lands in my inbox at least once a week. Someone has built a backyard pickleball court, or they…

Most outdoor lighting finishes fight against the landscape. Brushed aluminum reads as industrial. Glossy black powder coat reads as commercial.…

A solar birdbath fountain with lights sounds like the perfect two-for-one garden feature. You get moving water, which pulls in…

There is a category of solar path light that costs three to five times what a standard plastic or stainless…

The solar lighted planter pot is one of those garden products that arrived quietly and then suddenly seemed to be…

A solar wall pack is one of the few solar products where the business case actually holds up without subsidies…

Tiki torches have been a backyard staple for decades, and for most of that history the only option was a…

Solar post cap lights are one of the best upgrades you can make to a deck or fence, and they…

The promise of smart solar lights is genuinely appealing. You install a light fixture with no wiring, it charges itself…

I have a row of solar path lights in my front yard that I installed in the spring of 2020.…

A customer called last fall asking if solar sign lights could replace the hardwired floodlights on his monument sign. The…

Last spring I sat across the desk from a small business owner who runs a dental practice just outside of…

A buddy of mine works as a paramedic in a mid-sized suburb, and he told me something that stuck with…