Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This lovely and very long (72 feet) string of LED lights is easy to install outdoors. There's no need for an outlet. Just stick the solar panel into the ground where it's likely to get plenty of light during the day and not so much at night. Then turn it on and it will illuminate at night and turn off during the day. While these are listed as white lights, they do seem a bit on the blue side to me, so that is something to be aware of. Still, they are quite nice. There are two buttons on the bottom of the solar panel (which sticks into the ground using a little stake). One button turns it on and off. The other toggles through the various lighting modes. There's a mode that has the lights stay on steadily, there's a mode that turns just every other one of them on, there's a mode that has them all blinking at once, and a mode that has them "shimmer" by blinking at different times. That's my favorite. This would be ideal for the holidays -- one reason we don't light things up for the holidays is that it's a pain to get power to the lights where we need it. These take care of that problem completely. These would also be great for a wedding or an anniversary, or even an outdoor barbecue. They look very nice and seem like they'll last a long time. (Product sample provided.)