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Additional water feature such as fountain at many landscape designs would change the landscape performance become more attractive
and beautiful. Fountain can be a central focus for your landscape.
Sound of running water will bring relaxing and calming situation and could help a lot people to
reduce or release stress by calming down the emotion and thoughts.
Fountain can be placed at many places at your home garden, and placement at the best view will
create fountain as the best relaxation source. Fountain is not limited to outdoor home garden, you
can also place fountain inside your indoor garden which can be
adapted to indoor garden size and condition.
Fountain choice for garden generally can be considered from shape, size, color, material, and
budget.
 
Fountain type or shape can be wall fountain, pot fountain, pond fountain, etc. Variation of pond
fountain is from traditional design of 1 tier pond fountain until multi tier pond fountain.
Materials are used for fountain construction could be metal, fiberglass, wood, copper, stainless
steel, porcelain / ceramic, concrete or stone. Concrete and ceramic is considered as the best
fountain construction material. Addition of sculpture with statue and nature stone ornament can
enhance the beauty of fountain. Modern design of fountain uses a good quality of stainless steel
will bring the perfect view because of water flow shimmers and bubbles.
Fountain size should be adapted with the garden size. Large size fountain will fit with large size
garden, so does the small size fountain will be good if placed at small garden. For small garden,
you can choose wall fountain which does not require too much space. For large garden, fountain
choosing of fountain size and shape will be more flexible. Water pond or fish pond with fountain
can be chose as per requirement .
Several things to be considered when taking care of fountain:
* Water should be change regularly. If it is not, then water fountain will get dirty and look green
because of algae growth. Use animal safe algae treatment.
* Regular cleaning of fountain will keep the beauty of fountain. Drain fountain regularly and scrub
to clean it. Cleaning of fountain un-regularly and dirtiness condition for long time, will cause
difficulty in the next cleaning process.
Landscape design creativity will enhance the beauty of fountain performance and bring the
attractive view to people who see it. Beside the design creativity, fountain garden should be
constructed using the strong and stable foundation on the flat ground. It is better to have
professional advise so you can the best fountain design and construction.
Additional outdoor furniture which is durable to weather will help you to enjoy the beauty of
fountain garden in relax and calm situation.
Garden with other water feature such as water pond and fish pond is
also a good choice to enhance the garden beauty and create the comfortable and relax
situation.
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