I've been needing some lighting for our walkway leading up to our house.  Our front yard is heavily shaded but I was able to find some sunlight openings to place these lights since they run on solar power.  The soil was hard and I had to water the soil a bit to soften everything in order to get the plastic spikes in.  Be very careful when inserting the spikes into the ground because if your soil is too hard the spikes will break.  We were able to get these all the way into the ground so that they lie flat.  They look great!  I added the lights to our walkway straight out of the box and by nightfall the lights were well lit up!  They not only provide great light along our walkway but I was surprised to see they also lit up the bottom of the bushes next to the lights.  They obviously work better when it's been a bright sunny day but we will definitely be purchasing more of these!