I've made several tabletop fountains for various events. One was a teapot fountain. I started with a big basket and a plastic basket liner to hold the water. Yes, you need to drill a hole in the bottom of the teapot. Then, run tubing from the pump through the hole in the teapot. You have to wire the teapot to a stake or something and wire the stake tightly to the basket so it doesn't tip over. I put a piece of oasis in the basket liner and put a saucer and teacup on top of the oasis lined up so the water would pour from the teapot spout to the teacup. As the teacup filled, it overflowed into the saucer and then into the basket liner below. I hid the pump behind the oasis and twined artificial greenery around the stake, the edge of the basket and all the mechanics. I added fresh flowers to it as well. It was really pretty. Oh, I used cold coffee as the water that was pumped...it is more colorful than tea. Another one I made was for a friend's wedding. Her husband was a fisherman in Alaska. I also did it in a basket. I cut some bare twigs and spray painted them white and then sprinkled them with glitter. I put some white Christmas decoration leaves around the top edge of the basket, then spray painted the basket, the white leaves and basket edge with artificial snow. I attached battery-operated white lights to it, hiding the wiring in the white leaves, then also sprayed more artificial snow to help hide the light wires completely. I attached the twigs to represent the tree line along the back edge of the basket. I had some big frosted glass chunks that I put in the basket liner. When I added the water, they looked like icebergs. I put 2 tiny ceramic polar bears on one of the icebergs. Water was pumped like a waterfall over the icebergs. I put some dry ice in the back, so it had a foggy mist over it. Their wedding colors were siver and blue, so I added a big silver and blue bow to the handle of the basket with long "tails" hanging across the snow scene. I've had a lot of fun with indoor fountains, and they're really easy to do once you've figured out the simple mechanics of it all. Just be sure you have a basin deep enough to cover the pump with water or you can burn the fountain out. I wish I had photos to share!

Oooh! Thanks for the pic of your pergola and path. Now DH can see what it is that I want to do. He just can't envision it! But this works. He poured me some cobblestone type pavers, my intention was to make a patio with them, but he insisted that it'd cost us too much to do that, and it'd be cheaper to just pour a slab and stamp it. (After I did some number crunching, and lifting a few of those pavers, I realized he was right!) But I can use those pavers for a path similar to yours. I'm going to use wood stain to give them some coloring. I can't wait to start on my pergola/seating area...but now that I see yours, with the fountain bowl in the center, I might do a smaller one with my italian boy fountain and put it in the rose garden area. I can just see a beautiful climbing rose on the baby pergola...and LOTS of glass gems hanging!!

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Thank you for your suggestion, Dan. At this time my two insect problems are rose midge fly and cabbage moth caterpillars. They both affect the top/tip of new growth only. I direct a fine spray of Bayer Complete Insect Control only on the first 6 inches of new growth. Covering both sides of the leaves has not been necessary, just enough spray to just the drip stage. I do this every 10 days to two weeks. It takes very little spray and very little time to accomplish this. If I use Merit as a soil fumigant (its the fumes that kill the midge and/or its pupae at soil level...just put your nose down there and smell for yourself). One can also smell the Merit, partidularly on a hot or humid day when one strolls through the roses. If you can smell it, it is poisoning you too, by breathing it in. A merit fumigation also kills earthworms and other beneficials, or poisons those that survive to the point where robins can be found lying dead in the rose garden...poisoned by eating contaminated earthworms and other insects. Once a stem has buds developed to the size of a thimble for the hybrid tea type flowers, and adjusted smaller for the smaller blooming roses like Marie Pavie, the rose midge fly ignores the stem. I assume a more mature stem is not as 'tender/succulent' for midge maggots to damage, and either the female does not lay eggs on them or the eggs hatch and the maggots die? off. Cabbage Moth caterpillars also desist damaging the foliage of new growth once buds are well formed, but in fact they never attack the buds in the first place (so far), and only do cosmetic damage to the foliage. They never go after foliage below the top six inches, again perhaps it is too tough for them or contains natural chemicals that repel them somehow. Aphids and spider mites are easily controlled by washing them off with a direct, but gently water spray, usually repeated only once in a day or two. The spray is directed to the growing tips for aphids and to the underside of the lowest leaves for spider mites. It is remarkable how easy this method is to perform with great success...not using insecticides at all, just water. Since I live in an old neighborhood in the inner city, there are few lawns of any size, thus my Japanese Beetle problems are very minimal. However my country/suburban friend's roses suffer terribly from late May to early September from Japanese Beetle hordes, due to the expansive lawns the prime feeding ground for Japanese Beetle larvae. Again, thanks for the suggestion, but if you have an answer to my original question on battery powered sprayers I would surely appreciate your advice.