Summer Lighting Checkup: Keep Your Landscape Lights Looking Their Best
Summer in South Florida brings long evenings, warm nights, and plenty of time spent outdoors. It also brings heat, rain, humidity, and fast-growing plants, all of which can affect how your landscape lighting performs. A lighting system can look great one month and start to feel a little off the next. Fixtures get dirty. Plants grow into the beam path. Wires can shift. Bulbs can weaken. Even a small issue can change the way your property looks after dark. That is why summer is a smart time to do a lighting checkup. What to Look For One of the first things to look at is cleanliness. Dust, pollen, salt air, and moisture can build up on fixtures and lenses over time. When that happens, the light can look dimmer than it really is. A quick cleaning can make a big difference in how bright and sharp the system appears. It is also important to check placement. In the summer, trees, shrubs, and palms grow quickly. A fixture that was perfectly aimed in spring may now be blocked by new...