(light percussion music) >>Whenever visiting a garden, there's an explosion of sensory information that you receive from the beautiful flowers and viewing all of the beautiful pollinators flying here and there.

What I've noticed is that there's a couple things that are missing from my garden.

I mean, I love the smell of the mint and being able to pick and touch and the beans that grab hold of you.

But the garden is beautiful at night.

You may not be able to see everything, but what I can observe is to hear the wind chimes and the tranquil sounds of water.

So what we're going to do is we're going to add two of those simple features to our garden.

First we're going to start with just taking our bird bath and adding a simple solar fountain.

And this solar fountain comes with many different types of adapters that allow the water to shoot up in the air.

That creates that beautiful sound for us.

What we're going to do is move that over to the side, and we're going to start trying to make some bamboo wind chimes.

Wind chimes, understand, they're made of various types of materials, but we're going to use bamboo because I like that natural deeper tone that it creates.

So we have an anchor right here, which we've already pre-drilled, and we also have pre-drilled some of our bamboo.

So we leave that first notch right here.

The larger they are, the deeper sound that they might make.

And the smaller they are, their tone changes slightly, and it may be a little bit more higher pitch.

So what I have here is an anchor point, and I've attached one.

But what I have to do is take my drill.

Along the top I have to drill in through here to create two holes on opposite sides.

And then when I do, I have to lock this string, which this is the fishing wire that I'm choosing to use.

But I can also use twine, but it doesn't last as long.

And then sliding it under and pushing it through just like so, and pull that knot nice and tight.

So I'm gonna hold this up so you can see what this one is starting to look like.

Now, if you notice, this still has to have an anchor point.

I'll drill a hole right here through the top.

(drill whirring) And this will allow me to also add just a little piece of wire through the top there so I can have an anchor point so I can attach this here.

Or if I didn't wanna use that anchor point, I can simply go just like this.

Open that up.

Attach it.

And it allows me to hang it like so.

It's not done yet, but it's the start of a beautiful wind chime.

Perhaps you might wanna try creating wind chimes.

They don't have to be fancy.

It can just be slices of wood clicking together just to make simple, beautiful sounds.

Wind chimes, water features, they add to our experience in the garden.

Happy gardening.

(wind chimes clatter)