Directional Lights are the most widely used fixtures in landscape lighting. The Directional Spot Lights allow Landscape Lighting enthusiasts to sculpt masterpieces.
Area flood lights are one of the most underutilized fixtures in the landscape lighting industry. Because Directional Spot light fixtures have stolen the show. Many lighting applications are better achieved with a flood light than the catch all Directional Spot light or well light.
Installing the unobstructed niche flood light fixture can distribute light in a wider more diffused manner to illuminate low lying shrubs, or plant material that is wide and low to the ground. In addition area flood lights are better suited to backlighting or silhouette lighting than are the narrower beam spreads afforded by the Directional fixtures or well lights.