Same six techniques everywhere. What changes is the soil, the trees, the salt, and the rules.
This is oak country. The 1920s bungalows and the Mediterranean houses down here sit under live oaks that have been there longer than the houses have. Moonlighting up in those branches is the best thing you can do to a South Tampa yard and hardly anyone asks for it. Lots are tight, so a few fixtures go a long way.
Salt air off the bay eats cheap fixtures. Painted aluminum out here corrodes at the socket in a couple of years and then the whole run goes dark. We only put solid brass on the water. Costs more up front and it's the difference between lights that last two years and lights that last twenty.
Newer stucco homes, smaller lots, and most of these neighborhoods have an HOA with rules about exterior lighting. We've read them. We keep fixtures low and warm and out of sight, which is what the rules want anyway. If your HOA needs a submittal we'll put it together for you.
East Hillsborough
Brandon · Valrico · FishHawk · Riverview · Lithia · Apollo Beach
Bigger lots and newer construction, which usually means more yard and fewer mature trees. Out here the win is the house itself. Washing the front of a two-story home and lighting the driveway does more than trying to light a young oak that isn't big enough yet.
Acreage, long driveways, and oak hammocks. These are the biggest jobs we do and usually the most fun. Longer wire runs mean voltage drop matters, so the transformer and the wire gauge have to be sized right or the far lights come out dim. We map that before we dig, and we find the well and septic lines first.