I did a fair amount of research on these rain barrels (thanks to all the reviewers out there) and went with Ivy based on the reviews.  I waited until I had fully used it to review, and I have to say, this one is really good.  You can see from the photos that I put it on several inches of concrete blocks to get enough height to feed the water.  My original hose was too long, but this little 25 footer works fine.  The plastic nozzle fitting was disappointing -- I thought it would be metal -- but it's working so far.  The overflow hose is not long enough, so you can see the kludgy set up I've got to get it into the plants, but I'll fix that.  50 gals perfectly watered my entire little garden.