Unique Vase Fountain Ideas

Tiered

• Create a unique vase fountain with a three-tiered design structure using three different vase sizes. The largest vase is the structure's base and the basin for the fountain. The basin vase needs a mouth that's wide enough to fit the middle vase inside, with space around it for water overflow. For example, if the basin vase has a 12-inch diameter opening, the center vase should have a bottom section no larger than 10 inches in diameter. The same stipulations hold true for the center vase; it should fit the top vase inside with room to spare. Build up a small platform inside the basin and center vases to accommodate the center and the top vase, respectively. Drill a hole through the top vase to fit a flexible plastic tube that runs from the fountain pump housed in the basin vase. When all three vases are filled with water, the tube channels the water from the pump to the top and the overflow falls to the center vase, then down into the basin vase for recirculation.

Floral Spray

• Create a floral spray fountain with one large-bottom vase and four to six glass flowers. The bulb at the bottom of the vase should be large enough to accommodate a small fountain pump and several sections of wet floral foam. Insert glass flower stems into the floral foam to stand around the vase's inside perimeter. Attach a fountainhead extension to the pump and extend it to just beneath the vase rim. When the pump is running, water sprays behind the ring of flowers and falls back inside the vase.

Watering Can

• Channel water from a fountain pump inside a vase to a watering can poised above the vase. Create a platform for the watering can similar to a mailbox post. Flexible plastic tubing is clear and can be unobtrusive if you run it along the post support and into the backside of the watering can. Stand some glass or silk flowers inside the vase to complete the look.

Copper Tree

• Stand two to four lengths of soft copper tubing inside a large vase to create a copper tree fountain. Wind half of each copper tube length around a dowel to make spirals to represent tree branches. Bend the spiral sections to drape over the outside of the vase. Drill holes periodically through the spirals and hang crystal prisms as added decorations. Insert a fountain pump inside the vase with an attached fountainhead extension. Water sprays behind the copper tree limbs.