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I have talked OH in to agreeing to let me have a water feature in our new home. (has to be movable) now we don't move until 1st Oct but I thought I would drag him around a garden centre or 3 to look and get some ideas, I do have idea's that I want.
Now it has to be free standing (no walls to anchor on) and tasteful or OH will have the little boy peeing no what I want is a little bubble up over stones and a waterfall effect running into that. So's I can put plants around etc etc

Found one well 2 one is wider to the others taller and where the wide one has sloping ledges for the water to fall down and a shallow base (but c3' round base) the other has 3 pools to overflow from into a deeper 2' base .....
Both a grey stone effect plastic. Both the same horrid price. The taller I can see being able to put plants arond the higher ledges although the wider will take plants around the bottom and maybe a creeper up and over.

OH reckons (oh yea) he can make me a bubble over stones (but with no waterfall ).

I'm horrified at the price of €280 ......are they really this expensive or can I go and find similar cheaper ...

They are an horrendous price here too. We built our own by buying a small concrete Cleopatra's needle and a small fountain pump . Got a flexible tub and sunk that in the ground , put the pump in on a brick and put some plastic hose on the pump outlet and put the concrete needle over the top . we bought one of those plastic covered plant mover things and took the wheels off and put it over the tub as a basis for the big cobbles we placed all around it and hey presto a soothing water feature All in all cost us just £35

If you want a really portable one then look at solar powered pumps . but you may still find it cheaper to buy the pump and then improvise on the components

Shirley that sounds exactly what OH wants, and can have IF we owned.

We don't therefore what ever we put in has to be removable. (shame)

try looking for the solar powered pumps totally removable , and then try to make up your own . Only needs the pump.a sump that holds the water , and then an outlet that the pump puts the water too. We did have a solar powered basin with a grecian urn in that worked well BUT unfortunately cos our patio only got the early sun it didnt work all day, Not your problem tho I would think

THE SOUND OF THE WATER IS SO MAGICAL

OH NO MAKES ME NEED THE LOO

Shirley lack of sun in summer won't be a proble, not sure about winter as yet.., main reason I have agreed to wait before I buy ....but I know what I want so I need climbers my rose is so slow growing, the vine will grow (again) but I want flowers FAST well next year.

shhheeesh I ain't into gardens normally but this time I want to grow and I want it to it to be pretty ..(my way of putting my mark on the casa ?) who knows.

I've just installed a solar powered water feature. Used an old plastic water tank as a sump, sunk into the soil. Found a cast iron fishermans float 15ins diametre with a hole through it on the beach. Sat the float on a plastic flowerpot placed in the sump.The pump had suckers on it to stick to the side of the sump beneather water level. Used 12mm plastic tube from the pump, up through the float to the fountain head, and the water runs down the float and back into the sump. Very effective.
The solar pump I bought cost £60, but came with a timing device, which isn't really needed, and has four LED lights that will come at dusk. Also has a re-chargeable battery, charger costs extra.
Much cheaper to create your own water feature like this, and I'm delighted with mine - also totally removable should you need to.

Tec.