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SWMBO has, since we moved to Rutherglen 5 years ago, coveted an open space in the front yard between the driveway and the trees around the 'feature' pond (as it was when we arrived... it is now an annular garden of yellow & orange standard roses with a 6ft yellow weeping rose where the [non-functioning] cherub fountain once stood).
After redeveloping that 'feature', she switched attention to several other areas which are now beds of roses. She was still considering what to do with this wonderful open area...
At the beginning of winter, when a smidgen of rain fell, she was out with a spade digging a circle in the rain-softened soil. We now have three concentric circles outlined in bricks, with a white pebble pathway in the middle ring, and a wrought-iron tower in the centre, awaiting a white (Iceberg) climbing rose.
Yesterday with a little help, I concreted in a piece of standpipe with an old iron hand-pump atop in the outer ring. We have already purchased an 850mm diameter saucer-shaped bowl to sit under it, to be filled with winter-flowering Pansies or somesuch. (I'm just the Gardener's Labourer.)
After our trip to a SA Rose Nursery in late November the outer garden ring will be planted with alternating 4ft standard & bush roses in a variety of red-to-pink shades.
Pix will be posted shortly... watch this space................................................................

Possums love roses. Be prepared for visitors.
Jim

Hmmmm.....
Don't seem to have that problem here... despite a stand of 8 mature (50ft) Eucalypts along our back fence.
Maybe our two hounds have told them to P*** Off...

Herewith, the promised pix.
1. The recently-installed pump, with wrought-iron tower behind.
(And 'Maggie', our tame stickybeak magpie inspecting the new additions to 'her' garden.) A more general view of the whole layout... And as it looks from the house...

Joy is such a perfectionist when she puts her mind to any project, when finished it will look fantastic.

This is the other 'feature' I mentioned in the OP...
When we moved in, this was a grey-block circle in bare dirt, with a non-functional concrete cherub fountain in the centre.
We think we've improved it... just a bit.

Good show Ray! Do you have all the roses on a watering system? Where is THAT fountain now?
I've been thinking of installing a floating one in the lake/swamp out the front of our marina!!

The non-functional concrete cherub went to the tip.
Every newly-added garden bed has a dripper system installed.
Same thing for the newest bed: drippers will be installed when new roses are planted.
If you enlarge the latest pic and look closely at the right side base of the square pot on the left you’ll see a black piece of hose.
That’s where we connect the hose to water all roses, including the central weeper.
There’s also some black hose visible to the right of the right hand pot.

Here's a close-up of our dripper system.
If you enlarge it, you can see the water droplets spraying out for about 2".

Wow that is a good spurt for an old dripper like you Ray