Let it Glow!

Light Up Your Palm Trees

By Buck Jones, CEO, Let’s Light it UP! llc

A few years ago we needed to decorate the three palm trees we had planted in front of our new house for Christmas.

We bought string lights and wrapped them around the trunks. We stood back and said, “Well, they look as good as any tree we have ever seen wrapped with strings of lights, but something was missing.” We were also putting away some tomato cages and I got an idea! I thought if I turn the cages upside down, place one inside the other to make it more full, cut the lower rings out, then bend the eight legs down to look like palm tree fronds, cut sections out of the remaining rings between a couple of the former legs so it can be placed on the trunk. We then zip-tied LED lights onto the wire fronds and zip-tied the whole thing to the trunk just above the trunk lights. It looked awesome! It was a huge hit in my neighborhood.

That is how the Palm Tree Topper was born. It is no longer tomato cages but a refined product specific to this purpose and a platform for a product line. We also created the Light Blanket to make it easier to illuminate the trunk. You no longer wrap lights around the trunk, you simply tie the Light Blanket to the trunk to illuminate it.

We also designed a way for it to be easily assembled and disassembled for storage, selling and shipping – Fast-Safe-Easy!