A light on a stake tells everyone it is a light on a stake. This one does not. It is a small block that sits on the paving looking like a piece of ice all day, and once the sun drops it glows from the inside and marks the edge of the path, the step or the garden bed. No pole above the planting, no cable through the lawn, no power point anywhere near it.

Why It Stands Out

• The light comes from ground level — a 7 cm block throws light down and out instead of into your eyes. That is the difference between a garden that looks lit and a yard that looks like a car park. Six or eight down a path read as one line rather than a row of objects.
• No wiring of any kind — no transformer, no cable to bury, no power point. Put it down and you are finished.
• It switches itself — on at dusk, off at dawn. There is next to nothing to do once it is in place.
• 8 to 10 hours on a full charge — the evening and most of the night, not just the first hour after sunset.
• The textured finish does the work — the block scatters light through itself, so you see a glowing brick rather than a bare LED.
• IP65 sealed — rain, sprinkler and hose are all fine, and it stays out season after season.
• Warm white or white — warm for the alfresco and anywhere people sit, white where you want the edge to read clearly.

Where to Put Them

• Along the front path — the job these solar path lights do best. One every metre beside the pavers, with nothing driven into the ground.
• Down the edge of the driveway — set back on the garden side as solar driveway lights, showing the line coming in at night.
• On the deck and around the alfresco — along the edge boards, or on the step down to the lawn.
• On outdoor steps and around the pool — one beside each tread as solar step lights, and along the pool edge, which is where low light earns its place.
• Through the garden beds — among mulch or pebbles, so they disappear by day and glow through the foliage at night.
• Along a retaining wall or fence base — a line of low blocks makes plain colorbond look deliberate.

How It Works

1. The top face charges in daylight — a 2 V panel feeding a 600 mAh cell inside the block.
2. A light sensor turns the LED on as the daylight drops away.
3. The LED sits under the moulded top, so the whole block lights up rather than a single point.
4. It shuts off at dawn and starts charging again for the next night.

How to Set It Up

1. Turn the switch on underneath first — they ship switched off, and this is the most common reason a new one "does not work".
2. Charge it in full sun before the first night — a day out in the open, not on a shaded bench.
3. Put it where the sun lands on the top face — an open, sunny spot gives you the longest run.
4. Space them about a metre apart along a path, closer on steps, further through a bed.
5. Set them a hand's width back from the mower line, and lift them before you mow.
Tip: lay them out and leave them a night before you commit to the spacing. What looks even in daylight almost never looks even once they are lit.

Care and Maintenance

• Wipe the top every few weeks — dust and bird mess on the charging face cost more runtime than anything else.
• Switch it off if you put it away — a flat cell left for months does not come back.
• Bring them in for hail — the moulded top marks.

Specifications

What's Included

• 1 × Solar garden light in the colour you select