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Garden Lighting & Lighting Design

Atmospheric garden lighting: lighting concept, path and accent lighting, high-quality fittings and professional installation.

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Light that creates atmosphere

With the right lighting, your garden becomes an experience even after dark – safe to walk through and beautifully staged. We design the lighting concept and install it professionally.

Our lighting craft

  • Lighting concept and design
  • Path and step lighting for safety
  • Accent lighting for trees, walls and water
  • High-quality outdoor lights (including in-lite)
  • Installation by our in-house qualified electricians
Illuminated ornamental grasses and perennials in a garden in Wolfratshausen in the evening light
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Garden lighting with in-lite

With high-quality, smart in-lite garden lights, we turn your outdoor space into an atmospheric world of light – path and step lighting for safety, accent lighting for plants and trees, terrace and pool lighting for ambience.

Garden lighting with in-lite – an illuminated garden at nightin-lite path lighting in the gardenin-lite accent lighting for plantsin-lite terrace and pool lighting

About the pictures on this page

They show a small 65 m² private garden in Wolfratshausen, designed by our colleague Katharina Unterstaller, built by us and still maintained by us. The brief was explicitly to make the garden enjoyable in the evening – “from blue hour to a clear starry sky”. Realised with in-lite: uplights on specimen trees and grasses, lighting along the natural stone slab path, plus portable lanterns. The garden does entirely without a lawn (more on this under perennial planting) and has been featured in garden magazines; at Gärten des Jahres 2024 it made the longlist. Photos: Benjamin Klopp / frames for good.

Before you decide

Try it first, then decide

Light is hard to imagine – and nobody should buy lighting they have never seen.

A sample case for the night

We have an in-lite sample case. With it, we set up the lights in your own garden in the evening, exactly where they would eventually go. You see the colour of the light, the spread and the shadows on the real tree – not in a catalogue. If you don't like something, we change it, as long as nothing has been laid yet.

Lighting design is a design discipline of its own

Garden lighting is not an accessory you add at the end. It is planned like the garden itself: which trees are uplit, where paths run, where the conduits and transformer go. You can commission this lighting design separately – even if the garden is already finished. To the design service

We're happy to advise

Ideally at blue hour, when you can really see the difference. Give us a call or write to us, and we'll come by with the case. Request an appointment

Light in the garden – the conversation

In our podcast, Florian Miederer from in-lite explains why lighting belongs in the design and not at the end.

Light in the garden – with Florian Miederer from in-lite

Episode 12 of the Fuchs baut Podcast. Loads only after you click.

At night

A garden that looks different after sunset

What matters is not what is lit, but what stays dark.

By day, it is a company garden with a pond, topiary and water basins. After sunset it becomes something else: the pavilion is uplit above the water, which begins to glow green, individual specimen trees and shrubs are lit in warm light, wall surfaces in cool blue – and the seating cubes in the courtyard glow on their own. This is the company garden of the Rudolf Group in Geretsried: Grüne Visitenkarte.

Seating cubes that glow: blue and white light cubes in front of the office building façade
Courtyard at night: the steps are lit from the side, the water basin stays dark
The courtyard at blue hour – warm light on the steps, the basin reflecting the sky

What is ours here – and what is not

So that credit goes to the right people: the lighting design was by Werner Memmel, WML Lichtplanung in Munich – we know him through the forum baucultur, where we were both partners. We built the garden. And the luminaires are not from in-lite, even though in-lite is otherwise our partner for garden lighting. But what this example shows applies whatever the manufacturer: a lighting concept is not decided by the number of luminaires, but by what stays dark. Here the lawn stays dark, the water carries the light, and the paths are just bright enough to be seen.

Night-time photographs by Miquel Tres of the company garden in Geretsried.

Impressions

More impressions: garden lighting

Illuminated gravel path between grasses and perennials at blue hourUplit perennial bed with coneflowers in the evening in front of a timber houseGravel path between grasses and perennials, lit in the evening, with a timber deck at the edgeTerrace with a parasol lit in the evening, behind grasses and a perennial bedLarge lantern in front of uplit grasses and hydrangeas in the eveningUplit perennials next to a boulder in front of a dark hedgeIlluminated path of irregular stone slabs between grasses and perennialsLantern on a timber deck in front of uplit grasses and a boulderUplit ornamental grasses next to a timber deck and a glowing lanternGuests chatting on the terrace in the evening, with illuminated grasses and perennials in front
Frequently asked questions

Answers about garden lighting

Do you also take care of the electrical installation for the garden lighting?
Yes, within a suitable scope. We have two in-house qualified electricians who carry out smaller electrical installations in the garden – for atmospheric garden lighting, for example.
Which lights do you work with?
We rely on high-quality, durable outdoor lights – including from in-lite – and design the lighting concept to suit your garden.
Can the garden lighting be controlled smartly?
Yes – on request, it can be dimmed and controlled by app or timer.
Do you offer consultation for outdoor and terrace lighting?
Yes. Fuchs baut Gärten from Lenggries develops the lighting concept for your terrace, paths and garden together with you on site – which areas need light, how bright, and in which colour of light. Our two in-house qualified electricians then carry out the installation in the garden themselves, so planning and execution stay in the same hands.

Let's talk about your project

We are happy to advise you in person, with no obligation.

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