I Would Like To Make A Small Water-fall/fountain On My Terrace. Can Someone Please Explain The Procedure?
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 at
5:13 pm
I reside at Kandiwali and would like to know where I can buy pressure pumps for a small fountain/waterfall and what would it approx. cost me to build one. Ideas to go about building one and decorating it would be helpful. Thanks in advance.
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Get a Wine barrel that has been cut in half, a Water feature pump that is rated at 125 GPH, a stem and nozzle (if you want a wide jet of water, then no nozzle is needed) (waterbell works best for the nozzle), a tiny submersible halogen lamp with color filters, 3-5 Solar garden lights, 1 large bag of Garden Soil, Short flowering Plants (regular in-ground plants only), a watering can, some pea gravel, a 6″ x 6″ piece of acrylic, and a 1 Gal. Bucket. Place the barrel where you like it, because it is going to stay there! Add the pea gravel to the barrel up to about 5 inches above the bottom, DO NOT PACK DOWN! Then rinse the gravel. Add the dirt up to about halfway, again, not packing it down, then place the bucket in the middle and add or remove dirt UNDER the bucket until you get the top of the bucket even with the top of the barrel, then fill in the area around it with soil (you may want to paint the top of the barrel, but be sure not to paint the INSIDE). Now, add plants around the bucket and give them a good soak. Then add 4″-5″ of the remaining pea gravel to the bottom of the bucket and place the clear acrylic on top of this. Then place the pump with the stem and nozzle – if purchased – attached to the unit on top of the acrylic. Now fill the bucket with water. Plug in the pump and adjust the flow rate. Then adjust the nozzle if purchased. Then add the tiny submersible halogen lamp with color filters on the bottom. Add solar lights (after removing the ground stake, if possible) in the flowers so it is sitting on the dirt, this way the shadows of the plants are cast on the walls and it provides a decorative touch and invaluable lighting. Water flowers once a day in the evening using the watering can in the materials list, but use only enough to dampen the soil 6″ below the surface or you risk over-watering. CONGRATULATIONS, YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE FLOWERING BARREL FOUNTAIN OF PEACE AND TRANQUILITY