Sunday, September 15, 2013

Designing Artistic Gardens With Outdoor Fountains

By Dawn Williams


Outdoor fountains are elegant and charming additions to any outside garden, and also serve as artistic centerpieces across many business and private landscapes. They range from dramatic and elaborate to simple and quaint. They are as diverse and unique as the imagination itself, offering opportunities for creating a truly artistic, and unique outside environment.

They can be created using a variety of items, including bamboo, cement, marble, granite, and porcelain. Tranquil gardens can be created, with rock wall, stones, and lights. Others can be as simple as barrel with a single stream of water, or ceramic birdbath. Many are quite elaborate and spectacular.

Designs that include water dances that turn, rise and fall, in colorful displays of light, are sometimes incorporated into outside business or government settings. Some are elaborate water art in made-made lakes and pools of water that create brilliant displays. Many others are incorporated into designs involving rocks and steps, that stream across rock paths, into waiting pools of water.

Beauty and balance is what others are about, occurring in the serenity of a garden setting, with rock, Japanese plants and elements of spirituality. Wood, rock and even mother of pearl walls are popular additions, that spray water into soft pools below. These sometimes also have lighting.

Fountains do not need to be elaborate. Simple designs can be added to any garden, and might be as simple as bowls arranged to create a cascade of water from one to the other. Others are three tier, or are as simple as a small wall with a single stream of water falling into a small container below. Others are ceramic planters stacked and arranged to creating flowing and falling water.

Rocks can also be stacked in step designs and become part of a flower and water creation. This also allows for the sound of water, as well as created an intricate outside designs. Small pools of water can also be added to this design for added effect. Other ideas are small rock wells, built slightly stacked on top of each other that allows for water to flow from one to the other in a waterfall effect. Other unique ideas are wooden barrels.

There are truly endless possibilities for outside fountains, and the overall style chosen depends on the setting being created. There are also endless accessories for gardens, yards, and luxury home settings. Settings range in taste and style as much as the different ideas for building them. They range from elegant and artistic, to serene, Goth, religious, and even poetic. No matter what the personal interests gardens can reflect interests, individuality and style in a truly unique and personal way.

With a little planning gardens can also incorporate similar ideas and designs as interior uses of design, to incorporate similar colors and uses of plants, or lights. Regardless the setting, or type of outdoor fountains, all it takes is deciding what is to be achieved, and incorporating the correct design to create a one of a kind outdoor setting. With a little thought fountains will captivate visitors and will provide a tranquil and lovely outdoor space for years to come.




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