Philips Hue Lily White and Colour Ambiance Smart LED (Base Kit - 3 Lily), Outdoor Lighting Spotlight, Requires Hue Bridge, Garden Spot Light Works with Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple Homekit

Hue lighting is definitely not cheap, but they are really good quality lights and make a huge difference to gardens and ponds. If you want automated colour changes rather than just a coloured bulb these are brilliant. Can even be used with scenes or to react with music, albeit with a very slight delay.

I'm really impressed with the Philips Hue Lily spotlights. The build quality feels strong and durable, and they look very sleek in the garden. Installation was easy with the included stakes and mounts — I had them set up and connected to my Hue Bridge in no time.The lighting itself is beautiful: bright enough to highlight trees and garden features, with smooth colour changes and a wide choice of scenes in the Hue app. The lights are weatherproof too, and they've handled the rain and wind in Scotland without any issues.One thing to note is that you do need a Hue Bridge to get the full smart control, but if you already have Hue products at home, it fits in perfectly.Overall, a fantastic outdoor lighting solution that really elevates the look of my garden — highly recommend!

As per all Hue stuff, this light wasn’t cheap, but very nicely made, and comes with everything needed to use it (it is an extension to an existing Hue outdoor light system, so does t come with the power supply).Dead simple to install (big spike at the bottom which holds it firmly in place in the flower bed) and to add to the Hue system. Looks great lit and unlit, and easy to configure in the app.

These are typical of Hue's high quality and worked flawlessly first time. Each extension cable is 5m long and it just carries 24v of power (no signalling) so you join two (or more) together to get a 10m length. The cables are proprietary (see attached photos) and I haven't found anything that matches at the time or writing so if you want to extend them you'll have to do it yourself (and void the cable warranty). I used some low voltage cable and some IP68 couplers (B072R5KY4C).My single criticism (and it is significant) is that they just aren't very bright, especially if you use colours (but see update below). This is possibly a limitation of the low voltage. I wanted to use one to illuminate a 4m Japanese Cherry tree from the bottom but it barely lit beyond 1.5m (in the attached photo you can't even see it against the tree lights). I have Hue bulbs in the outdoor lights attached to the house and porch which are much brighter and illuminate a wider area. I can see why Philips have done it - it avoids high voltages in the garden which on balance is probably the better option. As such, these should be viewed as accent lighting rather than fill or flood.UPDATE: since buying, I’ve had one with water ingress which shorted it. I may have been unfortunate but would be interesting to know the failure rate. I’ve also bought three more for the front and these do appear brighter especially with colours so could be a ‘version two’.

This is a great addition to any hue set up, it is amazing how much these little lights transform the back garden and it looks so magical just with the three units. It is really easy to set up and install - just need to ensure you have a power source and you are good to go. You only need one power outlet as these connect together in a chain on the one power source.I found them to be really bright and not sure on some of the other reviews...they add accent lighting and do this really well, when on the full bright white they do throw off a lot of light and much more than i was expecting based upon some of the reviews.Another review notes that you can not control this from outside the home which is incorrect - as with all the hue products, if you have you hub enabled for out of home control you can control these lights when away from you wifi network - i can confirm that this works and works the same way as all other Hue lighting.Another quick tip, you can connect a maximum of 5 of these light units into the one power source...any more than this and you need to get a new base set with the power supply. This was confirmed to me by Hue and in the instructions - it is to do with the low power and the long cables used.The set contains everything you need to get started with a 5m cable per light and the power source too - word of warning, once you get these you will want more! They are great and transform the outdoor space!