Metal Wall Fountain Outdoor Cut Leaf Panel Backlit
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WALL FOUNTAIN OUTDOOR
A Cut Metal Screen With Light Coming Through It
A flat metal panel with a foliage pattern laser cut through it, backlit so the leaf shapes glow from behind. Four slim tubes run down the front of the panel carrying water into a rectangular basin at the foot. Grey powder coated frame, warm light behind the cutwork.
This is the only piece here that is a screen rather than a sculpture. Everything else in the range imitates stone, timber, or pottery. This one is a flat metal panel that happens to have water on it, which puts it in a different category and a different kind of garden.
The pattern is cut all the way through, so what you see is light rather than paint. During the day the panel reads as a silhouette against whatever is behind it. After dark the leaves become the light source and the frame disappears.
What Makes This Fountain Different
- The pattern is cut through, not printed on, which is why it works at night. A painted leaf design on a panel is visible in daylight and gone after dark. Cutting the shapes all the way through and lighting from behind means the pattern becomes the light source at dusk, so the piece is doing something completely different at ten at night than it was at noon. Almost nothing in this range changes that much between day and evening.
- A screen, not a sculpture. Everything else here imitates a natural material. This is a flat metal panel, so it belongs with modern architecture, contemporary planting, and gardens that already have straight lines. It also works as a partial screen, blocking a view while still passing light through the cutwork.
- Four slim tubes rather than a sheet. The water runs down thin vertical lines across the face rather than as a curtain, so the pattern behind it stays visible. A full water sheet would obscure the cutwork you paid for.
- Powder coated metal. A finish that is applied to the metal itself rather than painted on resin, which is why the flat surfaces stay flat and the edges of the cut pattern stay crisp.
Four thin streams, quiet and steady. Because the water runs through narrow tubes rather than falling as a sheet, the volume is low and the sound is a fine trickle rather than a splash. It suits a courtyard, a terrace, or a spot beside seating where the visual effect matters more than the noise. How loud it seems will still shift with the water level and whether it stands against a hard wall, which is why a fixed decibel number would tell you nothing useful about your own space.
Quick Specifications
| Design | Laser cut foliage panel with backlight and four water tubes |
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| Material | Powder coated metal |
| Finish | Grey panel with cut leaf pattern |
| Water flow | Four vertical tube streams into a base trough |
| Lighting | Warm LED behind the cut panel |
| 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.
Set it against a wall or a fence. This is a flat panel with a lit face, so it is designed to be seen from the front and it needs something solid behind it to lean the effect against.
Wind and the flat panel
A tall flat surface catches wind on the face, and the water runs in thin exposed streams that a breeze will move. Place it in a sheltered position against a wall rather than free standing in an open spot.
Water level and daily care
Keep enough water in the base trough to cover the pump so it never runs dry. Thin exposed streams lose water to drift, so check every few days in warm weather.
Keep the tubes clear. A blocked tube stops one of only four streams, which is immediately obvious on a piece this symmetrical.
Looking after powder coated metal
Wipe the panel with a soft cloth and avoid abrasives, which will mark a powder coat. Check the cut edges for chips each spring, since exposed metal at a cut edge is where corrosion starts. In hard water areas mineral deposits show clearly on a flat coated surface, so clean the wet lines before they set.
Winter storage
Before hard freezes, drain the base trough completely, disconnect and store the pump indoors, and dry the piece out. Water left in the tubes through a freeze can split them, so make sure they run empty.
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
Is the pattern cut through or printed?
Cut all the way through the metal. That is why it can be backlit and why the piece looks completely different after dark. A printed pattern would vanish at night.
Can it screen a view?
Partly. The panel is solid apart from the cutwork, so it interrupts a sightline while still passing light and glimpses through the leaf shapes. It is not a privacy screen but it does break up what is behind it.
Where does it belong?
Modern courtyards, terraces, a brick or rendered wall, a contemporary planting scheme. Because it is metal rather than faux stone it sits with architecture rather than with rockery. In a cottage garden it will read as imported from a different scheme.
Is it safe around children and pets?
The cut edges of a metal panel should not be handled by children, and a tall flat piece can be pushed over. Place it against a wall, out of the main running route, on a hard level surface. Run the cord where 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.