https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/watering-two-ways-once-sarah-sniffen-gzt1c
Below, an excerpt from the article. See paragraph two (and also text under the photographs in the article) for landscape design and archaeology thoughts and ideas.
“Puttering at gardening this morning, or rather at trickle-watering a few plants at a time at the end of a hose run, I came across a trick of the gardener’s trade, and though simple it is a joy – watering one plant while filling up a watering can for watering another beyond the range of the hose – nothing more than turning one’s watering can into a basin, such as there are at springs.
The key is getting the can at just the right angle. Therefore, in a garden, at the edge of every hose length that one doesn’t attach another hose length to, one might find next to old plants requiring a bit more water than some others, at no more than a watering-can’s spout away, flat rocks set at angles into the ground, or rocks with angled tops to them wide enough to set a watering can on with hose in it, without it tipping over; or, and this might be more practical, perhaps just rocks set very level that a gardener’s watering can can be set on, and propped up with a watering-can prop designed to get just the right angle for a gardener’s unique watering can, so that the can both fills and spills/waters at the same time…”