The Rock & Water Garden Expert [Paperback]

D.G. Hessayon (Author)

Book Description

Series: Expert | Publication Date: June 30, 1993

The first easy-to-follow guide to achieving beautiful results with these fascinating garden features. Containing the most up-to-date, sound and practical advice, it will teach you how to build or improve a rockery, make a scree or sink garden, and choose the right plants to liven up your patio or backyard, with a special A-Z feature of rock garden plants. You'll also learn about water, water features, lighting, aquatic plants and fish. Complete with full-color charts and photographs.

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About the Author

Dr David Hessayon initiated a major innovation in gardening publications in 1959 with the first of his Gardening Expert guides. These best-selling guides have had an unparalleled influence on gardening over the past 50 years. There are over 51 million copies in print. He was awarded the 1993 Gardening Book of the Year Award from the Garden Writers Guild and received the first-ever Lifetime Achievement 'Oscar' at the National British Book Awards. In 1999 he received a Guinness World Record Award as 'Britain's best-selling living author of the 1990s'. He lives in Essex, and has two daughters and four grandchildren.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Expert (June 30, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 090350538X
• ISBN-13: 978-0903505383
• Product Dimensions: 0.2 x 7 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,580,673 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reference book covering aspects of water gardening, July 31, 1999

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This review is from: The Rock & Water Garden Expert (Paperback)

This book is an excellent reference for the beginner or expert rock and water garden enthusiast. This book shows how one can build a pond, stock it with plants and fish and contains a good compilation of rock plants with which to surround the pool. There is also a section covering lighting of the pond and water garden problems. Highly recommend it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great photos and drawings, January 22, 2010

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This review is from: The Rock & Water Garden Expert (Paperback)

In this world of internet resources, there is still a great pleasure in sitting out on your back porch, sipping a glass of tea and paging through gorgeous full color photos to plan out your next addition or improvement to your garden. Author D. G. Hessayon does a great job of providing great information and full color photos for anyone interested in setting up a rock or water garden.

The plant area has complete information on each plant type, along with both a full color photo and a full color drawing of the plant. That lets you both see the foliage in "real life textures" as well as get the more precise details from the drawing. You learn how to propagate them, what soil they best grow in, and much more.

There are of course the technical details about how to set up a pond of different styles and materials, how the pumps work, and how to winterize. There are overviews of the creatures a pond might attract (frogs, newts) as well as an overview of good fish to put into your pond. Really, though, as good as these details are, you can find them in many other places. The bulk of the book is with the plants and their care. I definitely enjoy paging through this in the back yard, vs hunched over a computer screen.

Well recommended for anyone looking into adding or expanding their gardens!