Pretty Fairy Water Fountain 🧚 & Remote Solar Pond Pump 🧚

[Music] Hi everyone, it's Janette here, enthusiastic gardener. Welcome back to my garden in Essex, England. And we did say that there was a very big box that had been delivered from Blackden because it solves yet another problem that we had. Not a problem, but like a h wouldn't it be good if well Blackdon have solved our dilemma? Let's call it a dilemma. This is the N dig nature pool from Blackdon. This part is the nature pool and it has been absolutely wonderful. If you are looking for an easy wildlife pond, this is the one for you. And they have different sizes and they have different shapes and they have some which have windows in that you can have fish in and you can see the fish from all sides. It's amazing. And this is the wildlife pond. You can see that the little steps to go up and the steps to come down for the wildlife. And we had tadpoles, but we're pretty sure that the tadpoles have gone. And we have some beautiful plants. I'll just show you because I noticed this has flowered. How beautiful is that? I didn't realize they flowered. And then we have this one which has flowered. So, we have those. We have some water lettuce, which are really good at dividing. All you need to do is buy one and you will have loads. And then this one here. And there's another one there. And we have water liies. We have lots of oxygenators. And we have these. So, it's been very, very successful. You can see the water level's gone down quite a bit because it's been so hot and dry. So, this is the Liberty Solar fountain pump which Blackton sent us originally with the noded nature pool and it's brilliant. As you can see, it has beautiful little fountain, but obviously it runs completely on solar and you can get different attachments. So, you can have a fountain shooting up this high. It's been absolutely lovely. But the problem with this pond is most of the time it's in the shade from about here is in the shade until about midday 12:00 and then until about 4:00 perhaps because we have all these trees over here that's the west side of our garden and so they block out all the west sun. So, this little fountain is wonderful, but it only works probably 12:00 midday, round to about 4:00, and then it stops. So, we were thinking, is there anything else that we can use that might sort of boost our fountain experience for a little bit longer? And Blackton have thought of this obviously, and they have sent us something else to try, which is what we're going to do today. We're going to put it in exactly as instructed, but then we're going to show you an alternative option which you can use it for as well. So, let's bring Richard along because Richard is the brains and the technical expert for all these things, but I'm just an assistant who holds things and um passes uh cups of tea. So, we need Richard. Hi. And it's an another 5-minute job for Janette, which normally takes a lot more than 5 minutes. I know. Sorry about that. Anyway, we are installing this today, the Blton Liberty Mainsree pond or feature pump and LED light. and Blackdon have very very kindly thought of a solution for our dilemma because we don't want an electric. Well, we have no electricity along here, do we? No. And we don't want to be doing drilling holes in the house and everything, do we? No. So, we we were hoping that they might be able to help us with our dilemma and they certainly have. It is a remote solar panel. Yes. And it's got the cables so you can mount it in the sunniest spot. Yes. So you don't need to have it right by your pond like a lot of these solar things. You've got to have the little thing in the ground right next to where you want the thing. But this you can put it at another place as there are three different modes. Now you explain because you're a bit more fluent and you're used to talking or not. Okay. So, it's huge as you can see, a beautiful big solar panel. And what it does, it's lithium battery run. So, it will charge up by the sun. And you can have three different modes. So, you can either have on, on, off. What's the third? Time. Have you read this book? No. They're timed. You can have on, off time. continuous where it will go for 4 hours, wait for a recharge, another four hours, and on and on and on. Or you can set it to a set time of 4 hours every day. Yeah. So you can say, I would like my pond pump to go from 2 to 6 every day. Mhm. And it will do that every day. Or the third one is you can just put it on for 4 hours and it will stop until you tell it what to do next. I hope that makes sense. Yes, it made a lot it made a lot of sense. Well, I hope so. Anyway, my eyes were open for most of that. Well, we can't tell if dark glasses. That's why I wear them. So, this pump, it's the Liberty Solar 200, which pumps 200 L an hour. If you have a bigger pond and you want to pump 480 L an hour, you can get the Liberty Solar 500. There are three ways you can use this pump. You can either have the pump sitting at the bottom of the pond and there are different extensions which you can add which all come with the kits so you can get to the height that you need. The second thing you can opt to do is you can have the pond pump floating. So there's a flotational device which you attach and you can get the pump to float on the surface. And the third way which you can use the pump is what we are going to do because we are going to attach our own water feature to the pump. We won't show you putting everything together because it's so straightforward. The pamphlet that you get with the kit is step by step very very easy. I'm going to drop this in the water. I've done a temporary so that you can see in action. And now I'm just going to turn it on there. And as you can see, well, it's watering the pelonium as well. It's quite powerful, isn't it? Let's just let's change the uh the spray to a different one. again. Yep. Next one. Whoa. Lovely. One. Oh, I like that one. I like that one. Right. You've seen all four types of shower spray painting spray I should say. Yeah, that's a plumber talking sh. But we're not having any of them. We're having something completely different. Well, it is actually one week later because we didn't finish the project last week. My phone overheated. We are having a heat wave over here in the UK. Today is the longest day of the year. It's summer solstice and it's going to be 32° C, which is 90 fah. Pretty unheard of here. And the humidity is like about 67. So, we abandoned the project, but we're picking it up again today. But you can see a week later how well my pelgoniums are doing. They're all starting to bloom and they are filling out. And this star jasmine. Oh my goodness, it smells amazing. It smells beautiful. It's all blooming. You can see there's all little pollinators on it. And we sit here. And we still need to sort the window box out. But look at this. My jester clemetist. That is looking beautiful. And we've moved the flamingos here. But that's where I'm mounting it remotely so it catches more sun. So that wouldn't necessarily be suitable for everyone, but for us it's it's fine. Bearing in mind I'm going to have a cable coming down. But there is going to catch more sun. Now that is your pump. And what you get is an adapter pops on there. And then from there we can connect the hose which will run to the feature. So I've made this base to sit the feature on. So let's go to the pond. We have already determined where we want it. [Music] And that is where the new teacher is going to be sitting. Here she is. Isn't she beautiful? This is Blackdens and she's called the fairy and ern pond water spitter. And you can see she has an urn there which water comes out. That's why we wanted her a little bit away from the pond so that the water can go in there and I think that will look beautiful. And she's made of durable poly resin and she's 13 and 1/2 in high. And I'll put the dimensions on the screen all in cm actually. And it will airate the pond water more. And I just think she's beautiful. And all we've got to do now is from the pump run the hose to the beautiful angel. Fairy. Fairy. I see. I can't even get that right. Run the holes through the the fairy. Not an angel. A fairy. This is your black half2 in holes, which is very flexible, especially in the heat. Just tighten it up. The pump's ready to be submerged. It's wired in to the panel. And I must add the cable in the pump is 5 m, but you can get extension kits and and they're 5 m long. So dependent where you want to remotely put the solar panel gives you more options. I'm going to put the pump down here and then We could have the hose coming out there. And just to secure it to the bottom, I'm going to put a couple of stones around it to sort of wedge it in place. That's the connection to take the hose. That's on. [Music] All right. [Music] And it's ready for the tur. I'm so excited. But I must patient to add. Yep. I've mounted it on the fascia. Yeah. Uh the on and off button is up there. Yeah. Which for myself and probably you Janette is fine. Yeah. If you're 5 foot, obviously you're going to need those steps. But we are going to set it as we mentioned earlier, we will set out our preferred mode so that we do not need to touch it all the time. Right. So ready for the turn on. Okay. And here she is. It's beautiful. Yes. Very pleased. Isn't it lovely? That is so gorgeous. It's beautiful. Blackton should look like Blacktons are amazing. I have to give you an update on this fountain because we finished this fountain today at 11:00 in the day. It's now 11:00 at night. This fountain is still going, which is Well, yes, it may be a fluke because obviously we had a 90° day. So, it may be a one-off amazement, but this fountain has been going for 12 hours. 12 hours, everyone. I am in love with my new fairy and her winter pond spitter. I think it's adorable and I hope it's giving you an idea to add a water feature into your garden. Thank you to everyone, especially Andrew and Evelyn on the Black team for sending this to Richard and I and also the pub as well. And it's amazing. I absolutely love it. Happy first day of summer, everyone. [Music] [Music] I hope it's inspired you to add a water feature to your garden and I hope you're having fun in your gardens and I hope you can hear me above the beautiful fountain. Take care everyone there. I'm the enthusiastic gardener. Thank you so much for watching. Take care now. Bye.