I absolutely love this globe!! It’s so unusual and eye-catching; it’s certainly a statement piece in the garden. This is a large white plastic globe which is just less than 12” in diameter; I’d say the plastic is semi opaque and slightly frosted. Even when the globe isn’t lit, the material it’s made from makes it appear to be glowing slightly which gives it an attractive appearance; you might expect it to look a bit ugly when it’s not lit up, but it definitely doesn’t.

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The solar panel is in the base of the globe and then the actual globe part screws on to it, which I was very pleasantly surprised about, as I was half expecting to have a separate solar panel. Amazingly the sun does reach the solar panel to charge it up, even with the globe’s cover on it.

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The globe comes with a specially designed little spanner to undo and tighten the base of the globe, but it also has 3 little indentations in the base, very similar to a bowling ball, which I used to remove and re-tighten the base when I took the battery saving tag out. There is also a ground spike that fits into the bottom of the base, so you can fix it into the ground, should you want to. I’ve got mine sat on the top of an old chimney pot, which it fits into perfectly and looks really effective. The Amazon page states the globe is waterproof and can be floated on a swimming pool (providing the base is well tightened), unfortunately I don’t have a swimming pool to test it in, but it has happily survived a few nights of heavy rains and storms so far.

 

There’s a rubberised button on the outside of base that is the on/off button and also allows you to choose between 8 different colours or white or have the globe, gently blend through a cycle of all the colours. The lamp looks gorgeous lit up, I’m so glad I have it and will be buying a 2nd one so that I can have one either side of the garden.