Welcome back,
In today's post, I am sharing with you how to create a water feature for your garden, balcony, or any other outdoor space.
Below is a photograph of the water feature in our garden.
My daughter Alicia made it as she is the gardener in our house since my health decided I wouldn't be able to do it anymore. She has always loved gardening, and as a little girl, she helped me. She had her own little tools and gardening gloves, and she loved to go outside every morning to check the progress of "her garden" This is something she still does now as an adult.
I love that Alicia enjoys gardening. I loved it too. Sadly, since becoming unwell and disabled, I am no longer able to do the gardening, but I enjoy seeing what Alicia has done with it. I go to the garden centre with her to choose new things, and then she loves to show me where she's planted them and how they're doing. It's something we both love.
Alicia is also growing vegetables this year and really enjoying that too.
What You'll Need:
1 Large Planter.
1 Bowl Style Planter.
1 Solar Water Fountain.
1 Bag Of Compost.
Bedding plants of your choice.
A hosepipe or watering can.
We Bought These:
Large Planter - Click me to buy
Bowl Style Planter - Click me to buy
Solar Fountain - Click me to buy
Compost - Click me to buy
Bedding Plants - Click me to buy
Because the large planter is very large, a tip is to either place some cardboard or broken pots, any will do, if you have any chipped mugs you don't want, you can smash them and pop those in, or cut up a pool noodle into 2/3 inch pieces and pop them in the bottom of the planter. This just saves on how much compost you will need to use and is good for drainage. We had a big box from the planters, so Alicia ripped those up and put them in.
How To Make Your Water Feature:
Before starting, put your large planter where you want it in your garden, ensuring it's in a sunny spot.
1: Drill or use scissors to make quite a few holes in the bottom of the large planter.
2: Use cardboard, cut up pool noodles, broken pots or plant pots and put them in the bottom of the large planter.
3: Put the compost into the large planter, leaving a big enough gap to put your bowl planter in.
4: Once the planter is filling up to where you want the compost, take the bowl planter and put it in the middle of the large planter and add compost around the sides. DO NOT DRILL HOLES IN THE BOWL STYLE PLANTER.
5: Once you have the amount of compost you want surrounding your bowl planter, plant your bedding plants around the bowl planter in the space around it.
6: Add water to your bowl planter and water your bedding plants.
7: Open your solar fountain, read the instructions and pop it in the water.
8: You may need to swap out the different spray options on your fountain until you find the one you like best.
9: All done, you now have a water feature.
10: Alicia added some solar lights in our water feature, it looks lovely at night.
Our Water Feature At Night:
Large Planter - £25.00
Bowl Style Planter - £15.99
1 Solar Water Fountain - £8.99
1 Bag Of Compost - £8.00
Bedding plants of your choice - £14.99
Total = £72.97
The same costs we had were the two planters and the solar fountain. Our bedding plants were bought at a local garden centre and cost around £10.00, and our compost also came from our local garden centre and was around £6.00. So it was slightly cheaper, but the items I have listed aren't badly priced, as I searched for the best prices.
So, that's how to create a water feature like ours, which is easy to create and looks really pretty. I especially love our water feature at nighttime when it's lit up. Alicia has done such an amazing job, our garden looks so lovely, and she's worked really hard on it, especially since she currently has a broken foot in two places!
Do you think you'll create your own water feature? Or do you already have one? I'd love to see if you do have one.
Thank you for reading,
Zoë x
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