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Water Feature: Obvious features like large trees or natural water courses can cause problems. How will they look when incorporated into a new design? It is impossible to suggest general solutions, but consider the following: is the tree or natural feature particularly fine, rare or special in any other way? Could you Obvious features like large trees or natural water courses can cause problems. How will they look when incorporated into a new design? It is impossible to suggest general solutions, but consider the following: is the tree or natural feature particularly fine, rare or special in any other way? Could yousince the established look is going to be the aim, is it possible to keep the feature for the medium term until the garden has mellowed and matured, and then think about replacing it with your ideal specimen tree
or sculpture?
Make sure the fountain head will create the right effect for the water feature. BELL: a fountain that produces a sculptural, almost semi-circular sphere of water which falls in a bell shape from a central pipe.
BUBBLE: this head makes a natural-looking, low fountain of water which bubbles up gently as though issuing from a spring.
COLUMN: two or three columns of white water shoot up in a neat and stylized manner. This works well for a modern design.
GEYSER: the geyser fountain forces water up into the air, sometimes to a great height, to give a natural-looking rush of foaming white water and a gushing sound.
IT'S A LUCKY home owner indeed who has a natural stream or spring just waiting to be landscaped into a pond. Most of us have to start from scratch, but it's well worth the effort. Whether it be a formal, regularly shaped pond set in the middle of a paved patio or an informal, irregularly shaped pool at the foot of the garden, water is guaranteed to add another dimension of enjoyment to your garden. A still sheet of water gives a peaceful air to the garden and provides Mirror images of the surroundings and the changing sky. Moving water gives varying patterns and colors as sunlight plays upon it as well as introducing something that no other garden feature can provide—sound. The well-executed traditional rockery, with its layers of large rocks and colorful plants, can make a very striking feature. It is an ideal way to link the different levels in a garden. It should always be planned in advance as an interesting design feature and not simply plonked there as an afterthought. In this way, it should always be carefully integrated into the overall plan of your garden. The plants in rock gardens, usually :alled alpines, come from the mountainous ar rocky regions in the world and their use in :he garden recreates a rocky outcrop on i mountain or a cliff face. There are literally lundreds of these pretty little plants, which :ogether form a magical miniature world in i corner of the backyard. |
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