A packaged garden water feature kit comprises a container which, at the time of sale, holds a large decorative stone or rock with a bore formed vertically therethrough, an electric water pump, a length of tubing for connecting the pump outlet to the bore in the stone, a sheet of flexible plastic of
A packaged garden water feature kit comprises a container which, at the time of sale, holds a large decorative stone or rock with a bore formed vertically therethrough, an electric water pump, a length of tubing for connecting the pump outlet to the bore in the stone, a sheet of flexible plastic of a predetermined area having a hole centered therein and a container lid sealing the container with a pattern of perforations formed through it. In use, the container is buried in the ground with the pump within and the tubing projecting out through the lid. The sheet is laid on the ground with the hole centered over the lid and then hidden from a view by landscaping rocks, or mulch. The bore in the decorative stone is then connected to the tubing and the container is filled with water. When the pump is energized, water spills out of the bore and flows over the stone surface for return to the container.
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What is claimed is: 1. A garden water feature to be sold as a kit comprising: (a) a bucket having a closed bottom, an open top and a cylindrical sidewall therebetween the sidewall having a flange surrounding the open top; (b) a decorative natural stone sized and shaped to fit within the bucket, the
What is claimed is: 1. A garden water feature to be sold as a kit comprising: (a) a bucket having a closed bottom, an open top and a cylindrical sidewall therebetween the sidewall having a flange surrounding the open top; (b) a decorative natural stone sized and shaped to fit within the bucket, the stone having a bore formed therethrough from a bottom surface to a top surface of the stone; (c) a water impervious, foldable, plastic sheet of a predetermined area at least five times an area of said bucket's open top and a central aperture of an area less than that of the bucket's open top; (d) a submersible, electric pump having an inlet port and an outlet port; (e) a length of plastic tubing having an outside diameter sized to fit through the bore in the stone and an inside diameter adapted to fit about said pump's outlet port with a friction fit; (f) a bucket lid having a pattern of apertures formed through a thickness dimension of the lid, the lid having a size to cover the bucket's open top and a rim configured to receive the flange therein; and (g) the sheet, pump and tubing capable of fitting within the bucket along with the stone, and the bucket lid closing the open top of the bucket at the time of sale, with the bucket adapted to be buried in the ground to constitute a water reservoir. 2. The garden water feature kit of claim 1 wherein the bore formed through the stone has a first segment of a first diameter extending from said bottom surface toward, but short of, the top surface and a second segment of a second diameter, larger than the first diameter, extending from an upper end of the first segment to the upper surface of the stone. 3. The garden water feature kit as in claim 1 wherein, in use, the bucket is adapted to be buried in the earth beneath the stone to serve a water reservoir. 4. The garden water feature kit as in claim 3 wherein the pump is adapted to be disposed in the bucket, and with the tubing joined to the pump's outlet port and to the bore in the stone. 5. The garden water feature kit of claim 4 wherein the lid is affixed to the open top of the bucket and the sheet covers a predetermined area about the lid, slopes toward the lid, and is laid over the lid with the central aperture in the sheet overlaying the pattern of apertures formed in the lid. 6. The garden water feature kit of claim 5 wherein the sheet is adapted to be covered with one of relatively small decorative landscaping rock and, decorative mulch. 7. The garden water feature kit as in claim 1 wherein, in use, the bucket is adapted to be buried in the earth beneath the stone to serve as a water reservoir. 8. The garden water feature kit of claim 1 wherein the bucket is of about a 3.5 to 15 gallon capacity. 9. The garden water feature kit as in claim 1 wherein the sheet is of an area in a range of from about four square feet to about sixteen square feet. 10. The garden water feature kit as in claim 9 wherein the sheet is of an area of about nine square feet and the plastic sheet is polyethylene of about an 8 mil thickness. 11. The garden water feature kit of claim 1 wherein the pump has a capacity of pumping at least 100 gallons per hour. 12. The garden water feature kit of claim 1 wherein the pump has a capacity of pumping about 130 gallons per hour. 13. The garden water feature of claim 1 wherein the outside diameter of the tube is sized to match the diameter of the bore through the rock so as to be insertable therein with a zero clearance fit and the wall thickness of the tube defines a lumen that is less than the diameter of the bore, the tube extending through the bore for a distance less than the full length of the bore.
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