Celebrated designer Keith Davitt brings the delights of the water garden within reach of everyone in Water Features for Small Gardens. With a clear eye to design, construction, materials, and maintenance, Davitt offers alternatives for every style of garden and every budget. Detailed case studies depict actual gardens progressing from the planning stage to planting, and the author shows step by step how such features are created using only modest building skills. Types of water gardens discussed include: natural, formal, and informal pools; raised and in-ground formal fountains; wall fountains; streams and waterfalls; and bog and tub gardens. Heavily illustrated and packed with practical information, Water Features for Small Gardens is a must for any gardener seeking to bring his or her garden to the next level.
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"Compared with the many other recent titles on water gardening, Davitt's excels particularly at showing how formal pools and fountains can transform cramped urban spaces such as courtyards and tiny backyards."
—Library Journal, October 1, 2003 (Library Journal )
"This is a book for those looking for inspiration."
—Virginia Hayes, Pacific Horticulture, Fall 2004 (Pacific Horticulture )
"With a clear eye to design, construction, materials, and maintenance, Davitt offers creative alternatives for every style of garden and every budget."
—Country Almanac, 2006 (Country Almanac )
—Library Journal, October 1, 2003 (Library Journal )
"This is a book for those looking for inspiration."
—Virginia Hayes, Pacific Horticulture, Fall 2004 (Pacific Horticulture )
"With a clear eye to design, construction, materials, and maintenance, Davitt offers creative alternatives for every style of garden and every budget."
—Country Almanac, 2006 (Country Almanac )
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With a clear eye to design, construction, materials, and maintenance, celebrated designer Keith Davitt offers alternatives for every style of garden and every budget. Detailed case studies depict actual gardens progressing from the planning stage to planting, and the author shows step by step how such features are created using only modest building skills.
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Keith Davitt is an award winning landscape designer who has been designing and landscapes nationwide and abroad for over twenty years.
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This review is from: Water Features for Small Gardens: From Concept to Construction (Hardcover)
Water Features for Small Gardens is a wonderful book.
Most books of this sort show incredible water features only for the very wealthy but this book not only shows beautiful, attainable water features but explains, with photos and diagrams, how to build them. Mr. Davitt includes virtually every type of water feature from tub gardens to streams and shows a wide range of styles, many of his own creations and many from other designers. For anyone wanting a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated book on water features, this is a must.
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Ultimate how-to book,
This review is from: Water Features for Small Gardens: From Concept to Construction (Hardcover)
Water Features For Small Gardens is the ultimate how-to book for every type of water garden from tub gardens to raised fountains. Not only is it filled with beautiful after pictures, it has in-progress photos, construction details and technical drawings for each of the eight types of water gardens covered (with several examples of each), which anyone can use to build her own water garden. It also has chapters on pumps, filtration and water plants, explaining what to use, what quantities and why.
The writing is clear, succinct and written with the obvious intent of guiding anyone through the entire process of creating any sort of water garden. It is probably not a book for professional builders doing large-scale construction but it is certainly the best of its kind I have found for the average homeowner.
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This review is from: Water Features for Small Gardens: From Concept to Construction (Hardcover)
This is a gorgeous book! The pictures (by the author) are luscious, the gardens are inspiring: it does the heart good just to look at them, even if you haven't got a garden, or have one but can't afford to remake it. He doesn't just rate his own gardens, he also commends other well-made water gardens, so the scope is wider than might be expected. The writing is clear, friendly, and concise. Even the book design is inviting and elegant. Very highly recommended for gardeners of all skill levels--and wistful nongardeners, too. I loved it!
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water feature design, formal fountain, margin plants, tub garden, raised fountain, abundant planting, informal pool, bog garden, raised pool, fountain design, planting pockets, natural pool, flexible liners, wall fountain, upper pool, bog plants, water garden, fountain court, lower pool, river rounds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Water Features for Small Gardens by Ethne Clarke in Back Matter
- Waterscaping: Plants and Ideas for Natural and Created Water Gardens by Judy Glattstein in Back Matter
- Water Gardens by Charles Thomas in Back Matter
- Gardening on Pavement, Tables, and Platforms by George Schenk in Back Flap
- Encyclopedia of Water Garden Plants by Greg Speichert in Back Flap
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