An innovative water display makes a big splash in Great Britain.
From the glory days of English country houses and European palaces, architects and landscapers competed to provide the most extravagant fountain, the longest cascade or the most realistic canal or lake. Today, gardening stores report that the small garden pond, complete with solar fountain; the trickling spring fed by a re-circulating pump; or the mock stream flowing through a rockery are the must-haves for today's landscapers and gardeners, with their - in most cases - much more restricted horizons.