Texas Gardening: #7 Before and After, 2 by covenantgarden

covenantgarden wrote:
Sorry for the delay - I finally found pictures of our bubble fountain. Rick (my husband) and I built it about 4 years ago. We bought a plastic tub at Home Depot, I think it was a lily tub, but even a plastic tote would do. The tub is about 2 ft. across and 2 ft. deep. We also bought a small fountain pump and a sheet of metal screen. Everything else, we had already. We dug a hole for the tub, set the pump in it and put an old milk crate upside down over the pump, to help hold the weight of the rocks. Rick used tin snips to make a hold in the middle of the screen and set it over the top of the tub (see picture) and used bricks and rocks to hold the screen in place. The fountain tube from the pump poked up through the milk crate and screen. We added an extension so that the tube was about 6 inches above the screen. Once all that was set up and the pump tested, we added a layer of small rocks to cover the screen, large rocks around the edges, and several rocks in the center to hide the fountain tube. The water bubbled up from the tube and poured down over the rocks. It's hard to see the water in the pictures. You could hear it more than see it. The main trick was to be sure no water ran out of the tub. It was a fairly easy project.