March 2007

Last March Dutchman Fountains was delighted to be invited not only to participate in the Marketplace of the Philadelphia Flower Show, but also to help build and install the fountains in the main exhibit for the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.

The designs called for a central raised feature of a harp, at the base of which four water stairs would radiate.  The wooden stairs had to be fitted with pumps, fiberglassed and lined with dazzling blue landscaping glass. Once construction was complete, it was time to install them at the show. The water gently cascaded down each step, causing the dazzling blue glass to sparkle even more.     On either side of the central harp water feature, we built and installed two fountains whose rotating heads shot the water up into the air,  twisting it into a four feet high spiral, in imitation of  the spiral motifs found in ancient Irish manuscripts.  This feature was brought about using a unique fountain head called a pirouette.