Backyard Water Gardens

Backyard Water Gardens
Author: Veronica Fowler
Publisher: Strange Chemistry
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2013-04-08
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1591865530

Backyard Water Gardens is a complete overview of everything you need to know in order to create a backyard water feature, from ideas, to installation, to maintaining, to stocking with plants and fish.

DIY Guide to Ponds, Fountains, Rain Gardens & Water Features, Revised Edition

DIY Guide to Ponds, Fountains, Rain Gardens & Water Features, Revised Edition
Author: Nina Koziol
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages: 579
Release: 2023-02-21
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 163741207X

Plan, create, and enjoy your dream water garden! DIY Guide to Ponds, Fountains, Rain Gardens & Water Features provides essential information on designing and installing all types of home water gardens, from naturalistic to formal, plus fountains, waterfalls, streams, bog gardens, rain gardens, and more. With this expert guide, you’ll learn how to construct each of these structures, as well as how to incorporate a variety of aquatic plants, fish, and other pond inhabitants, and even how to design wooden bridges and stepping-stones. You'll also find advice and plants for all regions, plus special tips for gardens in extreme conditions and zone charts. A best-selling resource, this newly updated edition features today’s newest technologies and products, such as pond-less waterfall kits for small spaces, as well as a new chapter on constructing naturalistic swimming ponds that are free from chlorine. Also included is new information on construction, planting methods, and various DIY ponds, water features, and rain gardens that are suitable for both small, urban lots and expansive suburban landscapes, making this complete how-to guide accessible for anyone!

Garden Ponds, Fountains & Waterfalls for Your Home

Garden Ponds, Fountains & Waterfalls for Your Home
Author: Editors of Creative Homeowner
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages: 611
Release: 2017-04-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1607654377

Garden Ponds, Fountains & Waterfalls for Your Home provides essential information on designing and installing all types of home water gardens, from naturalistic to formal, plus fountains, waterfalls, streams, and bog gardens. Readers will learn how to construct each of these structures, as well as how to design bridges and stepping-stones.

Outdoor Water Features

Outdoor Water Features
Author: Gill Bridgewater
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-01-31
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781580173346

Bring life and movement to your outdoor living space with the sparkle and cool serenity of water. Alan and Gill Bridgewater show you how to add ponds, pools, cascades, waterspouts, and more to your garden or yard. With step-by-step instructions for 16 easy projects that include a classic wall-mounted fountain spout, a Japanese-style bamboo water pump, and even a container bog garden, you’ll soon be building a stylish water feature that’s perfectly suited to your landscape.

All About Building Waterfalls, Ponds, and Streams

All About Building Waterfalls, Ponds, and Streams
Author: Ortho
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-01-18
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780897215145

• A practical, easy-to-understand guide to adding both still (ponds) and moving (waterfalls and streams) water features to any garden. • Includes complete, easy-to-follow instructions on designing, establishing, and caring for a variety of eye-pleasing water projects. • More than 220 vivid photographs and illustrations, plus detailed instructions, make this guide a must-have for garden enthusiasts looking to plan and build a water feature. • Expert advice on selecting the right fish and plants for embellishing any backyard aquatic paradise. • Solution-based format will inspire you to confidently create water havens in your own yard.

The American Horticultural Society Complete Guide to Water Gardening

The American Horticultural Society Complete Guide to Water Gardening
Author: Peter Robinson
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1997
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

Gives hands-on advice on designing and creating formal and informal water gardens with still or moving water, stones, bridges, lighting, decking, or fish. Includes a catalog of over 150 plants suitable for water gardens and over 700 photographs and illustrations.

Simple Fountains

Simple Fountains
Author: Dorcas Adkins
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2003-10-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781580175067

Designer Dorcas Adkins shares her simple techniques for crafting 20 creative fountains, from a small tabletop fountain put together without a single tool to a dramatic outdoor spouting wall fountain. There are designs to fit all styles of home design and garden settings. Simple Fountains is a complete workshop in a book. Adkins covers everything you need to know about materials, supplies, and assembly, whether you choose to work with wood, stones, ceramic, or other materials. No previous building experience is required.

Water Features for Small Gardens

Water Features for Small Gardens
Author: Keith Davitt
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2003
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780881925968

Before starting your water feature, learn from these detailed case studies that depict actual gardens progressing from planning to planting, using only modest building skills.

Building Natural Ponds

Building Natural Ponds
Author: Robert Pavlis
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2017-04-07
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1771422351

Build a natural pond for wildlife, beauty, and quiet contemplation Typical backyard ponds are a complicated mess of pipes, pumps, filters, and nasty chemicals designed to adjust pH and keep algae at bay. Hardly the bucolic, natural ecosystem beloved by dragonflies, frogs, and songbirds. The antidote is a natural pond, free of hassle, cost, and complexity and designed as a fully functional ecosystem, ideal for biodiversity, swimming, irrigation, and quiet contemplation. Building Natural Ponds is the first step-by-step guide to designing and building natural ponds that use no pumps, filters, chemicals, or electricity and mimic native ponds in both aesthetics and functionality. Highly illustrated with how-to drawings and photographs, coverage includes: Understanding pond ecosystems and natural algae control Planning, design, siting, and pond aesthetics Step-by-step guidance for construction, plants and fish, and maintenance and trouble shooting Scaling up to large ponds, pools, bogs, and rain gardens. Whether you're a backyard gardener looking to add a small serene natural water feature or a homesteader with visions of a large pond for fish, swimming, and irrigation, Building Natural Ponds is the complete guide to building ponds in tune with nature, where plants, insects, and amphibians thrive in blissful serenity. Robert Pavlis , a Master Gardener with over 40 years of gardening experience, is owner and developer of Aspen Grove Gardens, a six-acre botanical garden featuring over 2,500 varieties of plants. A well-respected speaker and teacher, Robert has published articles in Mother Earth News , Ontario Gardening magazine, the widely read blog GardenMyths.com, which explodes common gardening myths and gardening information site GardenFundamentals.com.