Resin Tree Trunk Outdoor Fountain 39 Inch with LED
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TREE TRUNK OUTDOOR FOUNTAIN
The Waterfall Is Inside the Trunk
A hollow tree trunk split open down the front, with four water pools set into the exposed interior. Water runs from the top down the inner wall, gathering and spilling from pool to pool, so the whole cascade happens within the trunk rather than over its surface. You are looking into something rather than at it.
That is the design decision worth understanding. Most bark textured fountains put water on the outside of a trunk shape, which reads as a decorated column. Splitting the trunk and running the water inside gives the piece depth and a sense that you have found something opened up, which is a different object even though the material and the finish are the same.
Warm LEDs light each interior pool, so at night the inside of the trunk glows and the bark stays dark around it. At 39.4 inches on a 13.4 by 11 inch base it is nearly three and a half feet of height on barely a square foot of floor.
What Makes This Fountain Different
- Water inside the form, not on it. A trunk with water running down its bark is a column with a texture. A trunk split open with pools cut into the interior is a place, and the eye reads those two things completely differently. It also means the water is partly sheltered by the trunk walls, so wind carries less of it away than on an exposed rock face of the same height.
- Three and a half feet on one square foot. 13.4 by 11 inches under a 39.4 inch piece is unusually narrow, which puts it in a bed that is already planted, a corner beside a door, or the strip along a fence where a wider fountain will not go.
- Light inside the split. The LEDs sit in the interior pools rather than aimed at the bark, so after dark the opening glows and the trunk reads as a dark shape around it. That is what makes the split visible at night rather than just at noon.
- Sixteen pounds, which cuts both ways. Light enough for one person to carry and reposition, and light enough that a windy exposed spot is worth avoiding. Against a wall or within planting it is fine. Free standing on an open terrace it is not the right choice.
Contained and soft. Because the cascade runs inside the trunk walls, the sound is partly enclosed rather than radiating in all directions, which makes it quieter than an open rock face of the same height. Four short falls give a gentle stepped trickle rather than a rush. It works beside seating and will not carry across a garden. How loud it seems will still shift with the water level and whether it stands against a wall, which is why a fixed decibel number would tell you nothing useful about your own space.
Quick Specifications
| Design | Split hollow trunk with four interior cascading pools |
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| Material | Resin |
| Finish | Weathered bark with mossy tones |
| Dimensions | 13.4 in. long, 11 in. wide, 39.4 in. high |
| Weight | 16.5 lb. |
| Water flow | Down the interior wall through four pools |
| Lighting | Warm LED in the interior pools |
| Pump | Included recirculating pump |
| Power | AC plug in |
| Recommended use | Outdoor |
Setup, Care, and Warranty
Setup and placement
Fill it, plug it in, done. No plumbing and nothing to bury. One person can carry it at 16.5 pounds.
Set it level and face the split toward where people sit or pass. From behind or the side you see a plain trunk, and the whole point of the piece is the opening.
Wind and stability
At 16.5 pounds and nearly forty inches this is light for its height. Place it against a wall, a fence, or within planting rather than free standing in an open windy position, and keep it out of the route where someone could walk into it.
Water level and daily care
Keep enough water in the base to cover the pump so it never runs dry. The interior pools are small and the base is narrow, so the level drops faster than on a wide fountain. Check every few days in warm weather.
Clear debris from the interior pools. A blockage inside the trunk is harder to spot than one on an open ledge, so look into the split rather than just listening.
Winter storage
Before hard freezes, drain the base and every interior pool completely, disconnect and store the pump indoors, and dry the piece out. At 16.5 pounds bringing it inside is easy and is the safest option.
3 year warranty
This product includes a 3 year warranty. Coverage, claim requirements, and required documents are subject to the warranty policy that applies at the time of purchase. Keep your order confirmation, and contact customer support with your order details if service is needed.
Questions Before You Choose
Where does it fit?
A planted bed that is already full, a corner beside a door, the strip along a fence, a shaded woodland spot. The narrow base is what makes those possible. It suits ferns, grasses, and informal planting rather than a formal clipped setting.
How is it different from other tree trunk fountains?
Most run water down the outside of a trunk shape. This one is split open with the pools inside, so you look into it rather than at it. The water is also partly sheltered by the trunk walls, which keeps more of it in the fountain on a breezy day.
Is the bark real?
No, it is resin with a weathered bark finish and mossy tones worked into the recesses. Real timber in constant contact with water splits and rots. Resin holds the texture indefinitely, and at a few feet the grain reads as an aged trunk.
Is it safe around children and pets?
At 16.5 pounds and nearly forty inches tall this is easy to knock over, so keep it against something solid and out of the main running route. Run the cord along a bed edge so it will not catch a foot. The recirculating water is not intended for drinking.
A garden can be beautiful and still feel like it is beside a road.
Planting fixes what you see. It does very little about what you hear. That is the gap a fountain fills, and it is the reason most people end up wanting one.
It gives your ear somewhere nearer
Traffic, a neighbour's air conditioner, a road two streets over. A fountain does not cancel any of it. It puts a closer, steadier sound in front, and the far ones stop being the thing you notice.
Moving water stays clean longer
Mosquitoes need water that sits undisturbed for days on end. A pump keeps the surface turning over, so that never gets a chance, and the film that forms on standing water is slower to arrive.
Birds hear it before they see it
A still basin has to be found. Moving water carries, and it pulls in birds that would have passed the garden by.
The drop decides the sound.
A fountain makes its sound where the water lands, not where it leaves the spout. A short fall into a shallow bowl reads as a trickle you only notice when the garden goes quiet. A longer fall into open water is fuller, and it carries across a patio.
How much sound you end up with is not a number we can print. It shifts with the water level and with what stands behind the piece. Each fountain has its own description of what it sounds like, further down this page.
Water held against a surface never lands. Where it runs down ribbing or stone instead of falling free, it stays quiet the whole way.
A wall behind it reflects the sound and makes it read louder. Open planting softens it.
The water level changes it too. A low basin sounds different from a full one, which is why a decibel figure would tell you nothing about your own garden.
It plugs into a normal outlet. That is the whole electrical job.
No plumbing, nothing to bury, no electrician. The pump sits in the basin and the cord leaves from the base. What is worth thinking about before it arrives is where that cord is going to run.
Measure to the nearest outdoor outlet first. Cord length is listed in the specifications for each piece, and it decides where the fountain can actually go.
Run it along a bed edge, not across the lawn. Under planting or beside a path it disappears, and it is not something anyone will catch a foot on.
If you extend it, use an outdoor lead and a weatherproof cover. An indoor extension left in a border is the one shortcut worth not taking.
It is meant to run continuously. The pump uses very little, and starting and stopping it does more harm than leaving it on.
Fill it, plug it in, done.
No plumbing, nothing to bury, no electrician. Two people and a level patch of ground is the whole requirement, and it is up and running the same afternoon it arrives.
Unbox it where it will stand
These are heavy. Cut the box open in the spot you have chosen rather than carrying the pieces across the garden.
Set it level
A tilted piece sends the whole flow down one edge instead of spreading it. A paving slab under the base fixes soft or sloping ground.
Sit the pump in the basin
It sits on the floor of the base, not clipped to anything. Bring the cord out through the opening at the back and away toward the outlet.
Fill until the pump is covered, then plug in
Fill first and plug in second, every time. A pump switched on in an empty basin can be damaged in seconds.
The one rule worth remembering
The pump has to stay under water. Everything else on this page is preference, but a pump that runs dry is a pump you replace. In warm weather a basin can drop below the line in a few days, so top it up before it gets close rather than after.
Three habits, and the pump outlasts the warranty.
A fountain asks for more attention than a bird bath, but not much more. Almost everything that goes wrong traces back to one of three things: the level dropped, the intake blocked, or water was left in it through a freeze.
Top it up whenever the level drops. The pump has to stay covered. This is the habit that matters more than the other two put together.
Rinse the pump every few months, and wipe mineral film off the surfaces the water runs over before it sets. A brush and a minute is the whole job.
Drain it before the first hard freeze and store the pump dry indoors. Water left to freeze and thaw is what does the damage, not the cold itself.