A well is usually drilled so deep that you can reach the groundwater and pump it to the surface with the help of a pump. The garden fountains presented here, on the other hand, are purely ornamental fountains that provide refreshment and cooling in the garden by means of a pretty bubbling waterfall. You don't have to drill meters long here, the required water simply comes out of the tap, is filled into a hidden basin and is constantly circulated by a powerful pump.
There are many options for the garden fountain with a waterfall
What you need for the garden fountain with waterfall
There are many different ways to build a decorative fountain with a waterfall: for example, the water can fall from a wall made of stainless steel, natural stone or concrete into a pool below, flow from a hill made of polygonal slabs or larger chunks of natural stone into a tub or from a Artificial rocks fall down into the garden pond. There are countless ideas that you can implement yourself with the right materials, the right tools, a little manual skill and sweat. You definitely need the following components for this:
- Water catchment basin: This can be a disused bathtub, a mason's bucket, a large planter, a water butt or another sufficiently large basin.
- Basic materials for the waterfall: depending on the project, polygonal slabs, concrete slabs, chunks of natural stone, artificial rock or simply concrete and pond liner for modelling
- cement / mortar, gravel, sand
- a pump with a pump capacity corresponding to the amount of water including hoses
Choose the right pump
For a decorative fountain with a waterfall, you definitely need a submersible pump that is installed at the lowest point of the system. The different types of pumps have different performance levels, which determine how much water is pumped and how strong the waterfall will flow or even rush. Of course, you don't need a powerful pump for a small, bubbling waterfall. You need a lot of power - especially not only in terms of flow rate, but also head - for a large waterfall with a strong jet.
This work must be done
To install the garden fountain with a waterfall, you basically perform the following works:
- Laying a foundation, compaction with sand and gravel
- Burying the water basin, inserting the pump in the water basin
- Construction of the waterfall on the edge of the water basin
- Laying and hiding the hoses and cables
- Attaching the spout
- Decoration of pools, pool edges and waterfalls
tips
An interesting idea are also combined fountains, where the water gradually falls from one ceramic tank to a second, and from there to a third.