Deck Lighting in Mulberry, OH

Mulberry (ZIP 45150) sits in Miami Township, and decks here tend to carry their planting in pots standing on the boards. A big container of grasses or ferns is worth lighting. It is also the one subject on the property with no soil under it to work with, so we light it from the deck.

Planting is what most people look at when they sit out, and it is the first thing the evening takes away. A pot lit from above keeps its shape and its color until you go in. The deck picks up some depth past the railing, and none of it depends on the pots standing exactly where they stand today.

Every ground fitting we use is anchored into something: a stake below the depth a spade reaches, a pipe, or a bracket on a wall. A pot sits on boards or paving with nothing beneath it, and it gets moved. Turned for the sun, shifted for a party, carried in for the winter. Anything spiked beside it is aimed at empty air within a season.

So the light comes off the deck. A small adjustable fitting on the railing post nearest the pot, aimed down and across, does the work and stays where it is put. Where several pots stand together, one fitting above the group covers all of them. The planting underneath can be rearranged as often as you like. On a tall container we fit a clip that travels with the pot. Every position stays inside arm reach, since a pot gets replanted twice a year.