Allow a backyard waterfall to create an atmosphere of serenity for you and your feathered and furry visitors.

A backyard waterfall can make any day less stressful.

Tom and I have had many years of hectic, stressful, and thoroughly maddening events strung end to end in one long and drawn-out cacophony of nerve-wracking craziness. Business just tends to be that way.

Therefore it only comes natural to desire our Southwestern Dream Home to be as peaceful and serene as possible. I can think of one thing, more than any other that will create that effect, and I plan to incorporate it into my landscape.

Desert wildlife will appreciate the pleasant sound your waterfall will make, as well as the availability of precious water. Water can be a scarce commodity in the Southwest and wildlife will be drawn to your little man-made oasis like bees to honey.

Your human friends will also welcome the peaceful effects of a water feature in your backyard as well.

Traveling around the web, I have found several ways to create a backyard waterfall, or at least the refreshing sound of gurgling, splashing water.

• A stream with one or more vertical drops for the water to splash down and across varying configurations of rock ending in a pond.
• A vertical assembly of rocks or a dropoff of some sort where water can fall into a pond or a swimming pool below.
• A vertical assembly of rocks where water drops into a sandy or rocky collection area that has no pond. This is called a pondless waterfall.
• Some sort of sculpture or device that spurts water into a pool below.

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