Update your outdoor space with one of these inspiring garden water features. You can build some of them yourself!

Water fountains are easy and low-cost ways to bring beauty and tranquility to your backyard. Here's what to consider before you buy one. Although water fountains bring beauty and tranquility to ...

Whether bubbling, rushing, showering, falling or just shimmering in serene stillness, the most relaxing and soothing of sights and sounds is water. It’s a comforting primal element, like fire, that we ...

From gentle trickles to bird-friendly basins, here’s how garden fountains are bringing calm vibes—and smoke-free comfort—to outdoor gatherings. If you haven’t heard of the term sparden or spa-den yet, ...

“Did you see the Fountain of Youth?” I ask Jessica, the graduate student living with us. She is freshly back from a day trip to St. Augustine, Fla., our country’s oldest city and home to Ponce de Leon ...

Harold Leidner Landscape Architects designed this Dallas outdoor space to include an artistic fountain. Courtesy Harold Leidner Landscape Architects If the mere thought of gardening makes you break ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Cataloging of the Ellen Shipman Garden Photography Collection was made possible with support from the Smithsonian American Women's History ...