The Garden Pond: An Owner's Guide (Your Happy Healthy Pet Guides) [Hardcover]

Roseanne D. Conrad (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 18, 1998 | Series: Your Happy Healthy Pet Guides

At last, a book for the garden pond enthusiast that provides complete information on how to build, stock and maintain a beautiful garden pond. You'll learn all about pond construction, liners and edging in order to establish a no-fault framework for your pond. You'll also find out how to fill your pond with clear, healthy water and how to keep the water in pristine condition. In addition, you'll learn how to choose and care for aquatic plants that will thrive in your climate. Other chapters discuss selecting and maintaining healthy fish and other pond inhabitants. Best of all, this book includes a stunning array of photographs of ponds, plants and favorite water creatures. Info-packed sidebars make caring for your pond easy and enjoyable.

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Featuring the Best Information, Best Resources, and the Best Photos

The Best Advice to Create and Care For Your Garden Pond

With An Owner’s Guide to the Garden Pond, you will discover complete information on building, stocking and maintaining a beautiful garden pond. Water gardening enthusiasts will find easy-to-access, firsthand advice on all aspects of pond care.

The Garden Pond offers:

• Completely up-to-date resources, including top websites of interest to garden pond enthusiasts
• Recommendations on choosing and caring for aquatic plants that will thrive in your climate
• Directions on filling your pond with clear, healthy water and ways to keep that water in pristine condition
• Fundamentals for selecting healthy fish and other pond inhabitants
• Full-color photographs of ponds, plants and favorite water creatures

About the Author

Roseanne D. Conrad is a Master Gardener through the Pennsylvania State University Extension Service and is a lifelong gardener with a special love for garden ponds. She is also publisher of PONDKEEPER Magazine and is president of Garden Pond Promotions, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Howell Book House; 1 edition (March 18, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0876054475
• ISBN-13: 978-0876054475
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,702,285 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars POND BASICS, July 5, 2009

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This review is from: The Garden Pond: An Owner's Guide (Your Happy Healthy Pet Guides) (Hardcover)

I'D SAY I'M AN INTERMEDIATE LEVEL WATER GARDENER AND SO THE BOOK WAS NOT A PAGE TURNER OR ANYTHING... BUT IF YOUR NEW TO PONDS AND READY TO GET ONE FOR YOUR BACKYARD... THIS BOOK IS A GOOD ONE, IT IS WELL WRITTEN AND WELL ORGANIZED (I CAN REMEMBER MANY YEARS AGO, BEING OVERWHELMED BY ALL THE INFORMATION NEEDED FOR START-UP) YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE MANY QUESTIONS LEFT UNANSWERED AFTER READING THIS AS YOUR 1ST POND BOOK, BUT IF YOU HAVE OWNED PONDS FOR MANY YEARS AND ARE LOOKING FOR A MORE COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AT MICRO BIO-SYSTEMS WITH UNUSUAL PLANDS AND POND LIFE, ETC... PASS THIS ONE UP...NOT FOR EXPERIENCED GARDENERS