Landscaping Smaller Water Features with Economy & Safety in Mind

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The Child-Safe Pebble Pond

1) Excavate a hole 3ft or 1metre in diameter. Lay in a framework of 4 concrete blocks.

2) The blocks are covered with underlay and then liner material.

3) A grill of galvanised steel mesh or rigid plastic netting is held in place with hooks or masonry nails. This will support the layer of cobbles.

4) Large pots or old buckets or bricks and stones can sit in the bottom with the pump lending support to the mesh. The excavation has been made just deep enough to allow the tip of the pump to emerge through the cobbles.

An ever flowing Grecian Urn:

Hose into the urn held and sealed in place with silicone, mastic or plasticene

A bubbling boulder:

Plants planted in groups in the surrounding gravel. Boulders can be purchased ready drilled. See you local stone merchant.

A watering watering can:

The main problem and probably the most expensive aspect of this sort of feature can be getting the power to it.