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Bit of both. I have a small corten steel water bowl with a bubbler in the middle, for the sound as much as anything. Does take a good deal of leaf sluicing, and occasionally the local pigeons use it to dip their scavenged bread in. Broadly worth it though - I just clean it when I top it up after evaporation gets to it, and I just top it up when I am watering plants.
kkg337
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Water features - tranquil centrepiece or scummy leaf trough?
I haven't managed to do anything to my scorched earth mud patch this year, but now life is hopefully getting a touch less mental I'm hoping to progress things a bit.
I have a hankering for a water feature, in my mind's eye it would a strip trough adjacent to the patio and splitting that and the planting, with a little corten waterfall at one of the short ends. Our window will look on to it so I feel like it could add some visual interest, but we also have a huge oak (technically in my neighbours but we definitely get a lot of the leaves) so it would probably need covering every autumn. Might just be a flight of fancy that's not worth the hassle, but I'm building hard surfaces in other places so probably as a good a time as any to think about.