When you’re designing the landscape for your home, consider where you might add a water fountain. Water fountains have been a part of civilization since ancient Egypt. They’re found in every culture and usually have significant meaning to their communities.

Today, it can be a vibrant statue that welcomes visitors to your home, or it can be a quiet bubbling urn that creates serene white noise in a small garden.

We’ve found twenty-five water fountain landscaping ideas to help you decide what the best way is to add a water feature to your yard. There are ideas here for the do-it-yourself adventurers and ideas you can pass on to your landscape designer.

If you have a formal garden, a multi-tiered classic fountain may be right for you. If your garden has elements of a Zen garden, a Japanese bamboo fountain could be perfect. In many cases, you won’t even need to run plumbing.

Many water fountains today are self-contained, reusing the same water over and over again. You’ll also find that today’s water fountains come in every size imaginable. There are ideas here you can bring to the smallest yards.