Complete Guide to Water Gardens is a comprehensive guide to designing and installing all types of home water gardens, from naturalistic to formal. Readers will learn about site selection and construction materials and methods. They will receive information on pumps, filters, lighting, and other accessories. The book also explains how to install streams, waterfalls, fountains, and statues, as well as how to design bridges and stepping-stones. Complete Guide to Water Gardens also includes information on maintaining water quality and selecting fish and plants. Beautifully illustrated, including step-by-step sequences and instructions, this book shows readers all they need to know in order to create and maintain the water garden of their dreams.
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"Its comprehensive approach and easy to understand text and illustrations can help you create that needed spot of tranquility-the water garden of your dreams."
-Valley News, Fulton, NY (Syracuse Met Area)
April 23, 2003
-Valley News, Fulton, NY (Syracuse Met Area)
April 23, 2003
"...a comprehensive guide to designing and installing all types of water gardens..."
---Connecticut Post
---Connecticut Post
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A comprehensive guide to designing and installing all types of home water gardens, from naturalistic to formal, plus fountains, waterfalls, streams, and bog gardens. Beautifully illustrated, including step-by-step sequences and instructions, this book shows all you need to know to create and maintain the water garden of your dreams.
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Best book I have seen on water gardens,
By Angel Lee "Liocorno Amethyst Moonstone" (Cleveland, OH United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)
This review is from: Complete Guide to Water Gardens: Ponds, Fountains, Waterfalls, Streams (Paperback)
This is the best book I have seen on water gardens. It covers every step of the process from planning and construction through landscaping to stocking with fish and even maintenance. Many options are presented as far as size style and building methods for ponds, fountains, waterfalls, and streams. Fully illustrated with color photos and diagrams this is above all a great "how to do it" book. There is extensive coverage on choosing and caring for fish and other wildlife. A large encyclopedia of foliage including floating plants, marginals, ferns, shrubs and trees is also included. A photo, physical description, zones it will tolerate, & often some advice is given for each. Tons of landscaping enhancements are also suggested. There is history of water gardening and plenty of photos of beautiful finished gardens to give you ideas as well. I can't emphasize too strongly through how important this hands-on book is for someone who want to create a water garden of their own.
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This book covered everything I needed to know (as well as what I've learned
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From the beginning, human beings have venerated water. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nontoxic spray paint, wetland garden, preformed shells, waterfall lip, pond foundations, pond shell, informal pond, flexible pond liners, shishi odoshi, tropical water lilies, pond rim, hardy water lilies, pond perimeter, formal pool, true bog, containerized plants, oxygenating plants, flexible liner, marginal plants, main pond, water gardeners, wildlife pond, submerged plants, edging stones, bog garden Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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From the beginning, human beings have venerated water. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nontoxic spray paint, wetland garden, preformed shells, waterfall lip, pond foundations, pond shell, informal pond, flexible pond liners, shishi odoshi, tropical water lilies, pond rim, hardy water lilies, pond perimeter, formal pool, true bog, containerized plants, oxygenating plants, flexible liner, marginal plants, main pond, water gardeners, wildlife pond, submerged plants, edging stones, bog garden Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, North America, Italian Renaissance, New Jersey, South America, South African New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Invasive Plants: Weeds of the Global Garden (Brooklyn Botanic Garden Publication) by Brooklyn Botanic Garden on page 126, and page 158
- Water Garden (Gardening Library) by Paul Anthony Rees in Back Matter
- Hot Springs: 2 (An Esalen book) by Stuart Miller in Back Matter
- Water Gardens by Charles Thomas on page 17
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