Tree & Landscape Lighting · Orangeville

Tree and Landscape Christmas Lighting in Orangeville

A roofline outlines a house; trees and landscaping make it a display. In Orangeville that means the mature maples of the older streets, the spruce windbreaks of the country lots, and walkways that will be under snow for most of December.

The older streets around downtown have big deciduous trees that look striking wrapped trunk to first branch. The newer subdivisions have young trees, cedars and foundation shrubs that tie a lit roofline to the ground. The country properties around town have spruce and pine, sometimes in rows along a lane, that are the most dramatic thing in the landscape when lit. Each is done differently.

Trees

• Trunk wraps. Tight, evenly spaced spirals of mini or wide-angle LEDs from the ground to the first major limbs.
• Limb and canopy wraps. Lights carried out along the main branches of a maple or ash, tied with soft ties, never nailed or stapled. Done in November while the bark is dry.
• Evergreens. Spruce, pine and cedar draped or netted from the top so the lights sit inside the needles. Tall trees are done with a pole or lift and only where clear of wires.

Power lines come first

ESA's holiday guidance is to check for overhead power lines before decorating an outdoor tree or using a ladder, and to stay at least three metres away. On older town streets trees often grow near the service drop; on country roads the lane and road-side trees are frequently under or beside the distribution line. Any part of a tree within that distance of a line is not decorated. The trunk of such a tree can often still be wrapped from the ground.

Shrubs, walkways and the porch

• Shrubs and hedges. Net lights or draped strands sized to the plant.
• Walkways and steps. Stake lights set before the ground freezes, which in Orangeville is early, and lit garland on railings that stay above the snow.
• Wreaths and garland. On the door, porch posts, windows and gates, hung with removable hangers.

Snow, shovels and plows

ESA asks that connections stay off the ground and away from puddles, driveways and walkways. With snow on the ground for more than half of an average Orangeville December, connections are lifted on stakes or tied into shrubs, cords run along beds and the house wall rather than across lawn, and nothing is placed where the shovel, the snowblower or the plow ridge at the end of the drive will reach it. Everything runs from GFCI-protected outlets.

Wind on open lots

Houses on open, high ground on the edges of town and in the hills of Mono and Caledon catch a lot of wind. Tree lights are tied more often, nets are pinned, and wreaths and garland are fixed at more points so a December gale does not rearrange the display.

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