Solar lights are a great, environmentally friendly way of enhancing your garden with wonderful accent lighting. The light makes your garden safer, there is no need to lay cables in your garden and you don't need to spend ages installing the lights.

Shapelights have been designed to work year round in the UK using solar power alone, but they can also be fully charged using the supplied USB lead in just a few hours. USB charging is not necessary if variable illumination times in winter are acceptable, but USB charging every couple of weeks will keep your Shapelight working for the full 7 hours every night whatever the weather. And the best thing: these lights won't increase your electricity bill. They source their energy solely from the sun.You may need a little patience in the beginning. But just at the start. When you first use your solar light, the battery needs to fully charge for two days, or up to ten days when the weather is poor or overcast. You just have to be patient! This ensures that the device and its technology can provide the maximum battery power. String lights: The bigger, brighter cousin of fairy lights. Also on wire, but the bulbs of string lights are spaced out more widely than fairy lights, and are much brighter, for festival-style illumination. Stake lights: These tend to be spiked stakes with bulbs at the top that provide low-level lighting, ideal for guiding the way along a path or softly lighting flowerbeds. Fairy lights: Think of the lights on a Christmas tree - they have small, dim LEDs, narrowly spaced along a wire, and are ideal for decorative lighting.

Please note that the bright white and bright warm white colours use more power than the standard 8 colours so runtimes in these two colour modes will be reduced. Generally speaking, your solar lamp can store enough energy to shine when exposed to sunlight on a lovely, sunny day.Shapelights will work for 7 nights from a full USB charge without any help from the sun so a reasonably well-positioned Shapelight will only need USB charging every 10-14 days in winter and only occasional USB charging during spring and autumn. USB charging should not be necessary at all during summer.