The sound of splashing water or a babbling brook is calming for many people. When you’re not hard at work making your garden gorgeous, it’s a place for you to relax and enjoy nature’s beauty. Add a ...

For an almost instant homemade fountain, insert an inexpensive electric pump into a large ceramic or concrete planter, then fill it with water and plug it in. Place your creation in a bed of low, ...

It’s hard to overestimate the pleasures of a fountain. The sound of falling water in a garden is a tonic; the sight of it--the smallest bubbler in a terrace pot--cools the mind. Ah, water. Relief. In ...

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“Did you see the Fountain of Youth?” I ask Jessica, the graduate student living with us. She is freshly back from a day trip to St. Augustine, Fla., our country’s oldest city and home to Ponce de Leon ...

A simple water feature can take an ordinary deck and turn it into something magnificent. But a water feature fashioned by celebrated industrial designer James Dyson (of Dyson vacuums fame) is bound to ...

Living in the desert means being used to little water in our environment. But the human need for seeing and hearing water flowing is fairly universal, and this desire has been the core of garden ...