If you cannot reach the transformer, the lights will fail
Denver landscape lights fail when you cannot reach the transformer through new shrubs and rock mulch.
Xeric beds and boulder edges look finished until the box is buried. Relamping then starts with a demolition, not a bulb. Weston Landscape & Design treats access as part of outdoor living and landscape maintenance.
Leave a working strip to the box
Mark the transformer on a sketch. Keep a walking strip through rock or mulch. Two feet is enough. A solid wall of ornamental grass with no gap means every night repair takes twice as long.
South-facing walls in Highlands Ranch cook fixtures and hide timers in foundation plantings. Cut a service notch and keep it on the prune list. Write the location in the property file so a technician who was not on install day can find it after dark.
Path lights belong at the edge, not in the rock mass
Do not drop fixtures into the middle of a perennial or cobble bed. They will vanish. Set them on the walk edge or on stakes that can be reset after mulch. Walk the real night route: garage to stoop, side gate to patio. Accent boulders can wait. Dark steps cannot.
Snow storage and rock beds bury low lamps. Keep hardware off last year's pile. Coordinate with snow removal. Irrigation that soaks a fixture all summer fails the connection. Fix that overlap with irrigation before you replace lamps.
One dark lamp is plants. A dark zone is power.
Do not order a new system because shrubs covered three heads. Open the transformer first. Check the timer. Then prune for access and re-aim. Holiday lighting is a different scope from path lighting. Keep them separate. See holiday lighting when that is the actual request.
Send a dusk photo of the path, a day photo of the box, and any recent planting. Call (303) 944-7495 or contact Weston. More notes live on the blog.
