Yes, this fountain is battery powered and when the nice people from Hydria emailed me and asked if I would like one to review I could not say yes fast enough, I was intrigued.
I have not paid for this product nor have I been paid to write this review. My words and opinions are entirely my own. Regular readers will know that I am not keen having electric wires trailing around the garden and that I am a big fan of solar lights etc. So this fountain which is battery powered was very interesting to me.
The fountain arrived in a rather smart looking box. I quickly opened it up. This fountain kit is designed to sit in any pot of 30cm diameter and around 20 cm deep. The pot you use can of course be larger than this. You will just need to add more bedding materials to keep it at the level you want and to keep it stable/level. If you have not got a pot already they have a n ice offer that when you buy one you get a 20% voucher to buy a pot from a Blue Diamond Garden Centre of which there are many dotted around mainly England.
In the box you get the bowl and the battery housing, a couple of different fountain heads, a cleaning brush and a spirit level. There is a 'decorative tray' that sits over the top of the bowl that you can arrange stones/pebbles whatever you want to use to make the top look even prettier.
My first thought was that I was unsure how practical this all was. Surely the batteries would get wet and be a pain to change when they ran out?
Of course this is not powered by that type of battery. You charge up the battery (which took about 5 hours) and then you are ready to go.
The kits says it takes 10 minutes to set up. To set up the actual fountain and get it working me be around five minutes, it is that easy. The choosing of the pot and setting that up took a little longer, I had a moment of pot-indecision!
Once the choice was made I then started to set up the pot ready for the fountain. I learned a long time ago that when making something that could turn out to be heavy you assemble it in the position where you want it to be. I wanted this fountain to be in sight of the kitchen window in with the group of pots of roses and my ginkgo tree.
The chosen pot is quite deep so I filled the bottom with some polystyrene packaging I had not disposed of yet.
I then put in some compost to bed the bowl in.
Next I popped in the battery, filled the bowl with water and then started the fun bit.
Take care and be kind.
