Container Water Gardens (Water Garden Handbooks) [Paperback]

Philip Swindells (Author)

Book Description

Series: Water Garden Handbooks | Publication Date: August 2001

Books in Barron's profusely illustrated Water Gardens Handbooks series show amateur gardeners how to build the water garden of their dreams. Handsome designs and ambitious projects can be carried out with surprising ease by gardeners who follow the author's clear, step-by-step, photo-illustrated instructions. Details include suggestions and advice for stocking water gardens with fish and embellishing them with aquatic and waterside plants. Emphasis is placed on low-maintenance water features that offer maximum beauty with a minimum of fuss. This volume brings miniature water garden features into yards and gardens where space is limited. Detailed projects incorporate features that include millstones, bubblers, barrel and tub ponds, trough water gardens, and much more. Approximately 175 full-color photos.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series (August 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764118420
• ISBN-13: 978-0764118425
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 7.7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,426,399 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Container Water Gardens from Swindells, May 2, 2010

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Swindells sent the book out very quickly-extremely pleased with the condition, price and quick delivery. I highly reccommend Swindells.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Home Garden Hydroponics, March 12, 2002

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This book, Home Garden Hydroponics, is excellent reading for prospective hydroponic gardeners, especially beginners. Complete with directions for building a hobby hydroponic greenhouse garden system with materials available at most home building centers, it includes an architect's drawing and material lists. It gives step by step directions for constructing a Conestoga wagon style hobby greenhouse using PVC pipes for hoops. Plastic rain gutters are used for growing trays. It also provides information for buying ready made hydroponic systems. Based on the author's four years experience as a hydroponic garden hobbyist, it tells a word and picture story of growing, basil, bell peppers, strawberries and tomatoes. Starting with a foreword of the necessity to develop alternatives to traditional dirt farming, especially in arid regions with poor soil, the author contends hydroponics should play a major role in feeding the starving people in impoverished countries. With a quick historical reviw of hydroponics, and how his own interest was piqued when he retired, the author tells how readers can emulate what he has done in acquiring knowledge and having fun with hydroponics. He relates how he does his gardening standing up eliminating, bending, hoeing, stooping, sweating and contending with soil borne creatures, diseases and biting insects. I like this book because it is written in a "down home" style. I especially like the author's offer to provide one year of FREE consultation by phone or e-mail to anyone who buys the book.