Plants For Water Gardens: The Complete Guide To Aquatic Plants (Paperback)

by Helen Nash (Author), Steve Stroupe (Author), Perry Slocam (Photographer), Bob Romar (Photographer)

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Product Description
Nothing adds tranquillity, movement, interest, and style to a garden like a water feature. But without the proper plantings, a garden's pond becomes little more than an oversized puddle. Packed with superb full-color photographs of thriving water gardens, this detailed manual will help you select, cultivate, and care for aquatic plants in your garden. Learn the basics of planting, fertilizing, propagating, caring for plants year-round, and controlling pests and disease. Then choose the plants that suit your water garden and your tastes. Extensive, fully illustrated directories list the commonly available submerged aquatic plants for ornamental ponds, floating aquatics and aquatics with floating leaves, hardy and tropical water lilies, lotuses, marginal aquatics, and water irises. For each plant you'll get its scientific and common names, a description of its appearance and habits, and important information on potting, growing, and propagation. This valuable resource will help ensure the success of your garden. The definitive book for water gardeners. Published in hardcover as Aquatic Plants & Their Cultivation. 224 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (December 31, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806999802
• ISBN-13: 978-0806999807
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #388,598 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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49 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What every water gardener needs if they grow water plants!, March 20, 2000

By	Gabrielle Gay Henderson "gigih" (California) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a truly excellent book. For those of you who have already purchased water garden books, you know how frustrating it is when they don't give any detail about the plants they use, ("for a small container garden, use a dwarf water lily..."), but is that beautiful Panama Pacific water lily a dwarf, is it medium, or large? This book will give you those details. It tells you about the foibles of water plants, (did you know that some water lilies will melt in too much heat?) It includes basics on many different varieties of water plants, some basics of planting aquatic plants in the water garden and some very bare-bones on putting fish into a water garden, (but that's not what it is designed for). I am giving it 4 out of 5 stars, because they did not consistently include the common names in the index, even to reference back to the latin name. You can find water lily, which refers you to Nymphaea, but you can't find hair grass except under Eleocharis. If you are looking for a book that covers a wide variety of aquatic plants, I highly recommend this one.

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Water Garden Book, July 27, 2000

By	Robert E Strzelecki (Tampa, Fl USA) - See all my reviews

This is the best book I've seen for Water Garden plants. The detailed discription of the vast veriaty of plants is incredable. I would recommend this book to be the first and perhaps the only book you'll need for choosing your plants for your pond or water garden.