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Cheers. That's really helpful and has given me a bit to think about.
I want it to be low key and not intrusive for neighbours.
The plants will be in close to total darkness. The street light doesn't shine much. I'm not sure how to articulate it, but I'd like the function of a lit walkway but want the absolute opposite of this:
So I thought one light in each bed offset to each other in a low warm diffused vibe would give you the practically of lighting your path.Roughly where the red dots are.
(also my motorbike will be where my attempt at a motorbike aerial view is)
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Not a big fan of inground drive over stuff unless its top quality, i've seen a lot of failures due to poor install and water ingress. I'd be looking to use that wall on the left but instead of the brick light have a look at LightGraphix wall lights. Getting them of the ground means better spread of light, no upward light pollution, lower IP rating, less prone to damage, i could go on...
If it's dark, then you really won't need a lot of light to make an impact, something like below won't kick out a lot of light but is very simple install (just make sure you put the driver somewhere dry).
https://www.lightgraphix.co.uk/prod?product=LD42D/LD42DA
Will the plants be in total darkness? If the planting lights have to compete with anything else they'll loose impact. Again i'm not a fan of things pointing up because of light pollution but if you get something on stalks you can aim it down
https://www.lightgraphix.co.uk/prod?product=LD51
If you can get to EC1V or SE26 i've probably got samples of both you could borrow to try