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 handbook's projects for beautifying a backyard water garden include paving and edging the pond perimeter, using different colored pebbles for decorative purposes, adding ornamental statues, constructing bridges and decks, and more. Approximately 175 full-color photos.
Books in this profusely illustrated 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. Approximately 175 full-color photos in each book. Advice includes planting and propagation, recommended wetland and bog plants, creating foliage effects, and more.
Bring ambience inside the home with advice and suggestions for making tabletop fountains with miniature rock gardens, bonsai plants, and more. 175 full-color photos.
Streams, ponds, and pools can be a refreshing and beautiful element in a garden, and the extra-moist, damp ground around them provides the gardener with fabulous opportunities. Practical advice is given fur dealing with plant problems such as aphids, snails, and slugs, as well as for increasing your plants through such method as cuttings and spore raising.
Whether a natural brook running through a yard, a stylized formal pool, or a man-made waterfall, water in a garden has a captivating effect on all who see it. From construction to maintenance, all aspects of water gardening are covered, including suitable aquatic and marginal planting, stocking pools with fish and other animals, and common pool problems and how to solve them. Learn the best place to site a water feature, what type best complements gardens of every size and style, and much more.
Gives a detailed step-by-step guide to the construction of traditional and modern types of water gardens, including stocking of the pool with plants and fish, also how to deal with possible pool problems
The soothing sight and sound of water is one of the greatest pleasures a garden can offer. Now those with small gardens or even no garden at all, can enjoy the delights of water features with this practical guide to designing, building and planting your own original container water gardens.
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