Liven Up Your Garden With a Fountain – Tips for Choosing Your Water Fountain Pump
When you’d like to relax outdoors, a garden is the perfect choice. Gardens give us a break from the concrete jungles that form our cities, and also bring a lovely part of nature into our home. A water feature in your garden would complete the setting.
Water fountains add a special appeal to any garden. On a hot day, what could be more refreshing than having a cool water fountain to gaze upon. Not only visually, but the sound of moving water has a very calming effect on our senses.
If you live in an apartment, you might want to choose a small table top fountain for the soothing sounds it will produce. If you have a house with a yard, you can go as large as you want for your water fountain. No matter the size, the water fountain will produce soothing sounds.
Of course you know what you need to have a water fountain – a water fountain pump! This is the foundation of your water fountain. Without a water fountain pump there would be no movement, just still water. You’d miss out on the soothing sounds and the calming waterfall effect.
There’s quite a wide variety of water fountain pumps available. There are solar powered pumps which are driven by the power of the sun. There are also electrical pumps which require a nearby electrical outlet.
Water fountain pumps are fairly simple in their design. They pump the water through a plastic tube into a fountain nozzle. The water spews out the fountain head and then returns to the pool of water. It’s again pumped through the tube and released through the fountain nozzle in an endless cycle.
Usually water fountain pumps sit in the bottom of the pool or pond, although some models are floating. The pump will gather water from the water source and pump it to the fountain nozzle. You should take care in choosing the correct pump. Make note of the gallons per hour that will be pumped, as well as the lift – or height – of the fountain it will produce.
Gallons per hour or gph can start at 35 up to 600 depending on the size of the water fountain. The water fountain pumps should be appropriate for the water fountains size. More power is not actually going to be better.
Lower GPH will give you a peaceful and quiet fountain. A water fountain pump with a higher gallon per hour rating will give you a steady stream of water being pushed through the nozzle – and more of a splash. You need to decide in advance exactly what you want. You should make sure that the size you choose is within the correct range that would be appropriate for your setting.
