Landscape spot lights are referred to by many different names, up lights, bullet lights, and so on. Besides pathway lights these are the most common types of lights seen on a property. Among there advantages are distance of light projection and narrow fields of beams.
Distance of Light Projection
They are great for shooting light very far distances into the undergrowth of a tree or onto the far wall of a second story.
Narrow Fields of Beams
They are also good for using a more narrow beam, on a thinner tree, such as the trunk of a palm tree. They also have the advantage of versatility in all the different ways you can aim them and the various types of bulbs available to them at various levels of brightness and degree of light spread.