Fountains, gargoyles, streams or cascading waterfalls create movement and are guaranteed to bring life and splashes into the garden. As with all garden elements, you should plan them in proportion to the garden: a gently flowing stream can be refreshing in a small garden, where a large fountain could look ostentatious.
Which water features are suitable for garden design?
For a garden design with water features, rushing waterfalls, playful fountains and creative gargoyles such as watering cans or bamboo tubes are ideal. They bring movement, refresh the environment and create a magical atmosphere in the garden.
Rapid waterfalls
Waterfalls can be created as cascades or in steps. An unusual cascade - wonderful for a small, cozy garden - would be a series of watering cans or amphoras lying on their sides, each emptying the water into the container below, creating a kind of artificial waterfall. This idea could be developed further in different ways with different containers. On an annex, however, a narrow canal, interrupted at intervals by waterfall steps and occasionally by a square or round pool, can create a magical atmosphere almost like a Persian or Arabian garden.
Playful fountains
Fountains have been very popular for several years. This is due 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 will cool the area significantly. Reproductions and copies of traditional fountains such as dolphins and angels are widely available in stores. You can also purchase modern metal fountains (€99.00 on Amazon) in the shape of a leaf, branch or bird, where the water falls from one segment to the next. In general, there are an almost innumerable number of ways to make small amounts of water bubble, trickle or flow in a decorative way.
Tip
In Japanese gardens, bamboo spouts serve 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 pipe empties water into a large stone bowl set on a rugged rock with pebbles below.
