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A Trickle Here, a Trickle There By Melissa J Wantuck  |
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 There are many different features that can be added to a garden to enhance your plants and create atmosphere. Features range from arbors and trellises with climbing plants attached to create height, swings for relaxing, little glass balls to attract butterflies and reflect the beautiful blooms, bird feeders and bird baths to attract wildlife, lights to illuminate your garden at night, and water gardens to give a soothing babble of sounds.
Adding a water garden is a natural way to enhance your flower beds and bring in the pleasing sounds of trickling water to your backyard. You don’t have to spend thousands to build a garden pond to gain the water feature. Many gardening and home stores offer inexpensive water fountains that can give you that soft trickling sounds without making a major investment.
Check out some of these fountains to find the style right for you. Target and Wal-Mart offer a variety of fountains to fit anyone’s style and budget.
Target’s water fountains and water garden accessories range from $24.99 to $399.99. At the low end are small tabletop fountains that can be used indoors or out (preferably out in this case). The benefit of starting with a small fountain is you can test if you like the feature in your garden or not before going for the $399.99 lighted Buddha fountain.
Fountains can be free-standing or mounted on a wall like this Agora Wall Fountain for $94.99. This fountain will give your garden a European feel, as if you’ve entered a walled garden in Tuscany.
Bring some Zen to your garden with this Asain-inspired Moso Fountain that looks like bamboo. This fountain will cost you $104.99.
For a traditional fountain look in your garden, and powered by solar energy, this Chatsworth Fountain is $249.99 and is perfect as the centerpiece of a formally laid out garden.
Wal-Mart’s water fountains and water garden accessories range from $14.88 to $398.00. It has some similar selections as Target, though the prices are different. Wal-Mart’s $14.88 item is a small fountain pump for a garden pond or you could place it in a medium-sized bucket or container you turn into your own fountain. Add water and rocks and presto! You’ve created your own fountain.
A fountain like this multi-tiered one from Wal-Mart creates the sound of multiple waterfalls and also adds height. Try planting climbing plants, like morning glories, next to the sides of the fountain to disguise the supports amidst the greenery and flowers of the plant.
Incorporate the sounds of a babbling brook in your garden with this Cascading Outdoor Rock Fountain for $198.99
Rae’s Creek Fountain will give you both the sound of a small waterfall and a small pool without taking up a lot of room or requiring large amounts of maintenance that larger ponds require. There’s even a small ornamental frog that adds to the natural look of the fountain. All of this is $238.00.
Keep in mind that if your fountain has an electrical cord, it should be properly plugged in using waterproof cords and outlets to prevent wetness damaging the plug and motor of the water pump.
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