Fountains, gargoyles, rivulets or stepped waterfalls create movement and are guaranteed to bring life and splashes into the garden. As with all garden features, you should plan these in proportion to the garden: a gently flowing stream can be refreshing in a small garden, where a large fountain could be ostentatious.
Small fountains in the garden bring movement and freshness
Rushing waterfalls
Waterfalls can be cascaded or cascaded. An unusual cascade - wonderful for a small secluded garden - would be a row of watering cans or amphorae lying on their sides, each emptying into the container below, creating a sort of artificial waterfall. This idea could be developed in different ways with different containers. In an appendix, on the other hand, a narrow channel, interrupted at intervals by waterfall steps and the occasional square or round pool, can create an enchanting atmosphere almost like that of a Persian or Arabian garden.
Playful fountains
Fountains have been very popular for a number of years. This is thanks in part to the availability of relatively inexpensive reproductions of traditional designs and in part to the mass-produced, small submersible pumps sold together as a kit with small fountains. Install such a kit in a part of the garden that gets very hot during the day and you will find that the fountain cools the area considerably. Reproductions and copies of traditional fountains such as dolphins and angels are commercially available everywhere. You can also purchase modern metal fountains in the shape of leaves, branches or birds, where the water falls from one segment to the next. In general, there is an almost incalculable number of ways to make small amounts of water bubble, trickle or flow in a decorative way.
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In Japanese gardens, bamboo spouts are used as gargoyles. The tube is balanced on another vertical bamboo tube, fills with water and pours it onto, for example, pebbles underneath. A traditional Japanese bamboo cane empties water into a large stone bowl set on a craggy rock with pebbles below.