by Connie Oswald Stofko
If you want to use candles in your yard, they don’t have to stand on a table and they don’t need real flames.
Those were a couple tips I got in August when I visited the yard of Sue Tronolone during the Black Rock & Riverside Tour of Gardens. It was daytime when I visited her, but she shared her gardens on the evening Starry Night Garden Tour as well.
While the lighting adds ambiance to the yard at night, the lights themselves were attractive during the day.
Tronolone inserted a solar-powered light into a vase for a lovely accent piece. Her projects aren’t expensive– She gets most of her supplies from discount stores. And when the battery for the solar light wears out, you can replace it, she said.
I liked the clever idea she used for the chandelier with candles hanging over her patio table. The chandelier is hanging from a pulley so it can be raised and lowered to turn on the candles.
Check out the photos here to see some of her ideas.
For more inspiration on lighting and nighttime garden walks, go here.
I am curious how your pulley works on your chandelier. You only have a single pulley and it does not appear to tie off somewhere else. I apologize your article was written a while ago, but I’ve obtained a lovely candle chandelier.
It will be a good to light my garden at night. I was thinking for lightning my garden from last 1 year. Now I have to decide fast.
For the hanging chandelier, you can purchase battery operated candles with a remote. I love the iron one. I bought one on a trip years ago in Savannah, Georgia and plan on doing this to replace messy candles.
How lovely. What is used ad candle holders? It looks like wrought iron. Are they plant holders or did Sue use creativity for unique means to hang or secure them?