Water features are a 'must have' for many people, and our wine bottle water feature was the star of the show as far as many of you were concerned at the Royal Welsh Show.

It makes use of recycled materials and readily-available pebble water features, but you will need a spark of ingenuity to marry both together - so come on all you DIY experts, and let's get cracking! (well, maybe not literally.....)

Between 9 and 15 green wine bottles, labels removed (drinking the wine is SUCH a struggle) - or blue mineral water bottles, perhaps.

A pebble fountain kit, comprising container, lid, pump A bag or two of pebbles

Electricity supply

Large tile drill bit

Thick string

An aerosol can of cavity foam insulation and a sheet of wire mesh (the kind you find in garden centres for pet cages), OR a sheet of plywood measuring 60 cm square and a jigsaw

Some green garden canes

Child's hula hoop or wooden ring made from a strip of bendy plywood

Dig a hole where you wish to position your bottle feature, big enough to take the container for water.

Wrap one bottle in an old cloth, clamp into a vice to hold firm and drill a hole in the bottom, using the tile drill bit.

There are two possible methods for installing the bottles, both of which need to be tackled by a responsible adult! Seriously, folks, we don't want you to cut yourselves, so be careful please!

Using either a child's hula hoop (large plastic ring) or a home-made wooden ring to fit on top of the container, take the sheet of wire mesh and cut it so that it is 5 cm bigger than the ring all round.

Wrap around the ring and secure using wire - this gives the mesh strength to support the weight of the bottles.

Cut sections of wire out of the mesh so that it is possible to push the bottles through, taking care not to weaken it too much.

Don't forget that some bottles need to go through further than others.

Position the mesh over the container, and insert the central bottle.

Spray cavity foam around this bottle to create a mound of foam about 5 cm high and 30 cm in diameter.

Allow this to dry for a few minutes, then lift up while you ask a friend to cut away any excess foam beneath the mesh.

Now you can put the mesh frame back over the container and begin to push in the surrounding bottles.

The foam should help to support the bottles, and excess can be cut away once dry using a craft knife.

You'll need to hold them together for a while - a piece of thick string or ribbon is useful at this stage. You may also wish to insert some green garden canes into the upside down bottles to support them from within the container below.

CAUTION: we found we needed to break the necks off some bottles to make them short enough for round the edges - if you do this, wear gloves and goggles and dispose of broken glass carefully.

Once the foam has set, lift the bottles and mesh carefully, and ask a friend to fill the container with water.

Install the pump, poking the tube through the central bottle, and plug into a convenient socket.

Surround the bottles with pebbles, which will do the final job of supporting the bottles.

Instead of using mesh and foam, this method involves cutting a piece of plywood to form a new 'lid' for the container.

Into the centre of this plywood you will insert the bottles, so, using a jigsaw, you need to first draw and then cut out the required number of circles for bottles.

You will end up with a large odd-shaped hole in the middle. Insert canes into the bottles immediately around the central one, long enough to support them from below, and surround them with bottles getting gradually lower down - see above for details of breaking outer ones.

Install the pump and pebbles in the same way as for first method.

Add water to the container by pointing a hosepipe through the pebbles, and just allow the water to dribble out of the neck of the central bottle, as though sparkling wine was gushing out of one that has just been opened.

SAFETY: This water feature has no open reservoir of water, but it is still advisable to keep children away because of the risk of glass breaking if fallen on, or during rough ball games.