Garden speakers
Garden speakers are landscape loudspeakers: units that sit in planted ground, blend into it, and carry announcements and background music along paths and through gardens. The family has been in the company's range since it developed landscape lawn speakers for a scenic-area project, and scenic work is still its home ground.
What the garden speaker series covers
A garden speaker does two jobs that pull against each other. It must be heard — clearly, at a comfortable level, by people walking past who are not standing still to listen. And it must not be seen to be working: the unit sits in the landscaping as a stone-textured or lawn-level object, not as a piece of street furniture with a grille. The series is built around that pair of demands, in weatherproof enclosures sized for flowerbeds, lawn edges and path sides.
Landscape broadcast is not patio hi-fi
Buyers arriving from the consumer side sometimes picture garden sound as music for a terrace. The duty here is different: it is a site's public address, extended into its grounds. The garden units carry the same announcements as the rest of the system — opening times, guidance, safety messages — plus background music where the site wants it, at levels set for people in motion outdoors. The specification questions are therefore coverage questions: how long is the path, how wide the lawn, where do visitors gather, and where must the ground stay silent.
Garden speakers with the outdoor columns
On a scenic site the garden series and the waterproof column series divide the ground between them. Columns take the long throws — the waterfront, the main path, the square. Garden units take the near ground — the planted areas, the side paths, the garden rooms — where a column's throw would overshoot and its pole would intrude. A site list that names both families, area by area, produces a better quotation than either family stretched across the whole site.
Sound that stays inside the garden
Outdoor sound obeys a neighbour rule: it should be glorious inside the boundary and absent outside it. Garden speakers serve the rule by working close and low — many quiet sources near the listeners rather than few loud ones far away. The design consequence is a layout of many small coverage pools along paths, terraces and lawns, each just loud enough at its own ground. Buyers planning landscaped sound should draw those pools on the plan as deliberately as any indoor zone, because the alternative — one powerful source covering the garden — exports the programme to every neighbour downhill of the volume control.
The rule also shapes the programme itself. Music survives the low-and-close treatment gracefully; announcements need more care, since speech intelligibility outdoors fights wind, water features and traffic. Gardens that must carry announcements — venues, attractions, places of worship with outdoor overflow — should say so in the inquiry, because the layout that flatters music alone will strand an urgent message.
The landscape fights back: water, growth and mowers
A garden is an installation environment with its own hazards, and they are mostly alive. Irrigation reaches further than its plan suggests; planting grows over units placed for the opening season's heights; maintenance machinery passes closer than the designer imagined. The layout should be drawn against the mature landscape, not the newly planted one, and unit positions agreed with whoever will maintain the grounds — the conversation that prevents a speaker from being mulched into the flowerbed in its second spring. Buyers overseeing landscaped sites should treat the grounds plan as an engineering document and send it with the inquiry.
Cable routes in gardens deserve the same foresight: buried runs should be drawn, marked and recorded, because the next spade in the ground belongs to someone who was not at the installation. The modest cost of recording routes is repaid the first time a path is re-laid or a bed is replanted without a severed feed and a silent zone.
Evening duty and the hospitality pattern
Garden sound earns its keep disproportionately in the evening — the terrace dinner, the illuminated path, the venue's outdoor room after dark. Evening duty changes the design's terms: ambient noise falls, so levels can fall with it; the audience is seated and stationary, so coverage pools can be drawn tightly around the furniture; and the boundary rule matters most, because the neighbours are home. Systems designed at midday levels and merely turned down at night rarely achieve the evening's intimacy; the zone and level design should hold an evening pattern of its own, set at commissioning by listening from the seats.
Hospitality buyers — hotels, restaurants, wedding venues, attractions — should therefore describe the evening pattern explicitly when inquiring: which areas host guests after dark, until what hour, with what programme. That description, more than the site's total area, sizes the garden system that will actually be used.
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Describe the grounds area by area, and the garden speaker counts can be set against the paths and lawns.