The pole lanterns page lists 39 codes, and a group of them are short cast bollards with a cut jaali on the body. Their product pages give heights from 14 to 38 inches, so the light sits at knee or hip height beside a garden path. A pole lantern lights a drive from above and needs its own plan, covered in garden or driveway pole height. The five steps below start from a landscape drawing that already shows the path and still needs bollards marked on it.
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1 Trace the path and note what stands beside it
Print the path at a scale you can write on. Along each stretch, write what sits next to it: a lawn edge, a planting bed, a compound wall, a flight of steps, or the point where the path meets the drive. Add the height of any planting. A 26-inch bollard set behind a hedge taller than itself lights the leaves, and the walking surface stays dim. On that stretch, move the bollard to the open side or choose a taller code.
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2 Pick a height band from the catalogue sizes
Each product page prints the size as height by width in inches. The dimension drawings also give millimetres, which is the unit most landscape sheets use. Bars below are drawn to the same scale.
- PPL 502314 × 5 in, 356 mm tall. Square, Antique.
- PPL 5026A14 × 6 in, 356 mm. Round drum, Raw Grey.
- PPL 5004C18 × 4 in, 457 mm. Slim post with a small lantern head, Antique.
- PPL 502126 × 8 in, 660 mm. Square, Antique.
- PPL 501829 × 8 in, 737 mm. Square, Antique.
- PPL 502029 × 8 in, 737 mm. Square, Antique.
- PPL 5004A30 × 4 in, 762 mm. Slim cylinder, Matte Black. PPL 5004B has the same size.
- PPL 5026C31 × 8 in, 787 mm. Round, Antique.
- PPL 502232 × 8 in, 813 mm. Square, Antique.
- PPL 5034B38 × 8 in, 965 mm. Square post with a lantern top, Antique.
The two 14-inch bodies belong at a step edge or a planter corner, where anything taller would stand in the way of the view across the lawn. Most of a path is carried by the 26 to 32 inch group, and their eight-inch width gives each body enough mass to hold its own on open grass. PPL 5034B is the tallest here. Its small lantern on a square post makes a marker for the spot where the path leaves the drive or arrives at the door.
Three more codes sit in the same range without a photograph on their pages yet. PPL 5026B is listed at 20 × 8 in Raw Grey, and PPL 5034A and PPL 5034C at 38 × 8, also Raw Grey. Ask the works for a picture before any of them goes on a drawing.
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3 Choose square or round, then look behind the cut
PPL 5018, 5020 and 5021 are square columns with a cap on top and a plinth at the foot. In each product photograph a white panel sits behind the lattice, so after dark the cut reads as dark tracery over a lit face. The patterns are different. 5018 has a loose, curving cut. 5020 carries an irregular cell pattern in a paler Antique. 5021 has interlocking pointed arches under a pyramid cap. PPL 5022 is the densest cut of the set, a floral jaali with a tapering cap, and its photograph shows no white panel behind the openings. Confirm on the quote what sits inside 5022 before you place it beside a seating area.
A round body has no front, so it looks the same from every side of a lawn. That helps on a curving path that people see from several angles. PPL 5026A is a Raw Grey drum with a raised leaf relief over the face. PPL 5026C stands 31 inches high in Antique, with long frond-shaped slots. Square bodies have flat faces that you can line up with paving joints or a boundary wall, which suits a straight path set out on a grid.
A house with flat plaster and black window frames may not want a jaali at all. PPL 5004A and 5004B are slim Matte Black cylinders, 4 inches across, with a glass band near the top in the product photograph. On a contemporary elevation they keep the path lit without adding pattern to the garden.
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4 Settle the finish against the gate
Eight of the eleven codes in the height chart are Antique. 5026A is Raw Grey, and the 5004A and 5004B pair are Matte Black. Someone standing at the gate sees the path bollards and the pillar heads in one view, so keep both in the same finish family. Antique on the path sits with antique gold heads on the pillars. If the pillars carry Matte Black, the 5004 pair is the black option in this group. The comparison for the pillars themselves is in matte black or antique gold, and the way the Antique wipe ages in salt air or desert dust is covered in powder coat and antique finish.
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5 Mark each bollard and count the pieces
The 6 to 10 m gap in driveway pole spacing is written for poles of about 2 to 3 m. A body under a metre tall throws its light much lower, so that gap does not carry over. Mark the places a walker needs to see first: each turn, each change of level, both sides of a gate within the garden, and the junction with the drive. Then add bollards along the straight runs until no stretch between marks looks unlit from the house.
A sample plan
A path leaves the drive, runs straight past a lawn, turns once, and climbs three steps to a side verandah. One PPL 5034B marks the drive junction. Four PPL 5018 stand on the lawn side of the straight, with a fifth at the turn. A PPL 5023 sits at each side of the bottom step and another pair at the top step. That comes to 10 pieces across three codes.
Ten pieces is where trade pricing begins. Ask on the quote whether the works counts a mix of codes towards that lot. Prices printed on each product page are per piece, ex-works Aligarh, and the quote adds packing and GST for delivery inside India, with transport priced separately.
Sending the plan
Send the marked plan, or a phone photograph of it, with the code written against each mark and the city of the site. Say whether each bollard stands on paving or in soil, so the reply can cover how the base fixes down. If the path is already laid, add a photograph from the house end with a tape along the edge. Message the works on WhatsApp at +91 70176 62533, and download the 2026 catalogue PDF for the rest of the range.