Water Feature Books
Books about ponds and bogs, and the plants that are adapted to living in them.
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American Horticultural Society Complete Guide To Water Gardening
Book Description: If you find aquatic plants fascinating but aren't sure where to start, let this thorough how-to manual be your guide. Brimming with practical insights and photographic inspirations, the Complete Guide to Water Gardening supplies step-by-step instructions for all types of water features, from full-blown oriental ponds to a simple container of bog plants. Possibilities are only as limited as your size and budget.
Proper planning is essential to good results, and this book takes it nice and slow. Explanations are straightforward and comprehensible for folks who have some previous home improvement experience, but for a first-ever project, this may be biting off a bit more than you can chew. Leveling, backfilling, laying concrete--these are a few of the details to prepare for in adding even a small pond to your garden. You'll see your efforts pay off quickly, though. Flourishing plants and a return of natural amphibians are a couple of rewards in sight.
Plant selection involves a good understanding of this developing ecosystem, and the sections concerning options and routine maintenance are specific in the requirements of your new garden. Close-up shots of healthy plants and systems, as well as diseases and pests, will provide an excellent education. If you're looking for a new adventure in gardening and don't mind getting your feet wet, this could provide just the experience you're looking for. --Jill Lightner
The Complete Book of the Water Garden
Book Description: Expertly written and illustrated throughout with color photos and helpful diagrams, this guide describes both traditional and modern techniques for creating a water garden. From streams, waterfalls, and fountains to self-contained features and bog gardens, every form receives in-depth coverage that is easy-to-follow. There are suggestions for siting, design, and construction; detailed assistance on stocking ponds and pools with fish and flowers; and invaluable advice on plant propagation, care, maintenance, and common problems. An extensive directory of aquatic plants covers such favorites as water lilies; floating plants (among them the beautiful, delicate water hyacinth); and many more.
Complete Guide to Water Gardens : Ponds, Fountains, Waterfalls, Streams
Book Description: Complete Guide to Water Gardens is a comprehensive guide to designing and installing all types of home water gardens, from naturalistic to formal. Readers will learn about site selection and construction materials and methods. They will receive information on pumps, filters, lighting, and other accessories. The book also explains how to install streams, waterfalls, fountains, and statues, as well as how to design bridges and stepping-stones. Complete Guide to Water Gardens also includes information on maintaining water quality and selecting fish and plants. Beautifully illustrated, including step-by-step sequences and instructions, this book shows readers all they need to know in order to create and maintain the water garden of their dreams.
Creating Water Gardens
Book Description: There is a resurgence of interest in water features. From fountains to ponds, The Water Gardening Book provides the comprehensive information that water gardeners need.
Every aspect of planning, constructing, and caring for a water garden is addressed:
Understandable projects.
Encyclopedia of water plants.
Designing water gardens to fit the landscape.
In-depth information addresses the most critical issues in water gardening.
Durable design.
Step-by-step installation.
Effective water filtration.
Proper maintenance.
Earth Ponds A to Z: An Illustrated Encyclopedia
Book Description: From the author of Earth Ponds, the definitive reference guide to constructed earth ponds.
This A-Z guide provides pond owners and builders with an at-a-glance reference to answer any question. From Acid Rain to Zooplankton, pond guru Tim Matson defines and explains more than two hundred terms associated with pond building and maintenance, both familiar and obscure. Here the reader will find descriptions and definitions of all significant pond elements, including:
• structural features
• construction materials
• water conditions and treatments
• aquacultural topics and crops
• environmental concerns
• government support and regulatory agencies
• landscaping
More than two hundred illustrated entries distill the latest information on ponds into a unique and definitive companion for pond owners and builders.
Earth Ponds: The Country Pond Maker's Guide to Building, Maintenance and Restoration
Earth Ponds Sourcebook: The Pond Owner's Manual and Resource Guide
Book Description: In the sequel to his bestselling Earth Ponds, Tim Matson offers new ideas, advice, a wealth of resources, and his trademark wit in this sourcebook full of practical information for pond owners. Those who want to build a new pond today are likely to face tighter regulations on wetlands and complicated questions about building methods; those who already own ponds may wonder how to stock it with fish, how to cure an alga or weed problem, or how to cope with beavers. This book addresses all of these issues, and more.
Topics covered include:
* Pond Building: a concise guide, A to Z.
* Maintenance: symptoms of a dying pond and some basic and off-the-wall ideas about how to prevent, or reverse, this aging process.
* Wildlife: how to attract those you want; how to repel those you don't.
* Activities and Use: skating, raising fish, saunas and hot tubs, kits for building rafts, docks, and gazebos, pumps for irrigation and pond protection.
* Garden ponds: goldfish, ornamental plants.
* Details about the products on the market, where to buy supplies, and how to get the best for your buck.
Encyclopedia of Water Garden Plants
Book Description: Encyclopedia of Water Garden Plants is the definitive photographic reference to the full range of plants available to the water gardener. More than seven years in the making by the founding members of the American Water Gardening Society, this book promises to be the bible for the selection and cultivation of every water garden plant. This volume includes hundreds of water garden plants often overlooked in other books, such as marginal plants, floating plants, bog plants, and submerged plants. Of course, waterlilies and loutses are described in detail as well. The encyclopedia is unique in its thorough horticultural treatment of the plants described and pictured in these pages, offering complete information on hardiness, culture, propagation, and pests and diseases.
With more than 700 beautiful color photos and helpful introductory chapters on pots, soils, and fertilizers, this volume is a one-stop reference for important information on and identification of hundreds of garden plants. Homeowners, keen gardeners, and water garden professionals will find the Speicherts' encyclopedia an indispensable resource for years to come.
Formal Ponds and Water Gardens
Book Description: Formal gardens are always designed with an eye to symmetry and proportion. This book instructs on how to achieve these qualities while also integrating water features into the garden. These handsome, instructively illustrated "how-to" books cover a wide array of imaginative water garden concepts. Exceptionally attractive 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 for stocking water gardens with fish and embellishing them with aquatic and waterside plants. These practical books emphasize low-maintenance water features that offer maximum beauty with a minimum of fuss. Approximately 175 full-color photos. Product Details
Fountains and Cascades (For Your Garden)
Gardening With Water
Book Description By bringing what H. Marc Cathey, president of the American Horticultural Society, has called "a new wave of naturalism" to America, James van Sweden and his partner, Wolfgang Oehme, have revolutionized American landscape design. Van Sweden and Oehme are internationally renowned for their public projects and private commissions: responsible for the Hudson River Park in New York City and several gardens of the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, D.C., they have landscaped the properties of celebrity clients such as Oprah Winfrey and David Brinkley, as well as many more modest gardens for private homeowners.
According to van Sweden, no garden is too small to benefit from the soothing, sensuous qualities of water. Gardening with Water, the first in a new series of books to be written by van Sweden, covers everything from birdbaths and small fountains to waterfalls, swimming pools, lily pools, and water edges. Writing for professional and nonprofessional gardeners alike, van Sweden begins with an overview of influences -- from Frank Lloyd Wright's "Falling Water" to palace gardens in Kyoto, Japan -- before surveying close to a hundred of his own projects to illustrate how he and Wolfgang Oehme introduce water into their garden designs. Several chapters are devoted to practical questions: what to plant, where to plant, whom to contact, and how to build. Clear instructions are supplemented with numerous illustrations, extensive diagrams, and a detailed glossary of trees, plants, and flowers (including Oehme and van Sweden's trademark grasses).
How to Build Ponds and Waterfalls: The Complete Guide
Book Description: How to Build Ponds and Waterfalls and Much More... was written with the consumer in mind: it's a show and tell presentation of everything needed to build spectacular water gardens. Jeffrey Reid proves that knowing the correct steps and using the right product for the job practically guarantees success. The methods shown in these chapters are proven, and have been taught to thousands of do-it-yourselfers.
In an easy-to-read and easy-to-understand format, this book shows readers how to build ponds and waterfalls, as well as providing information about Koi fish, submersible pumps, water lilies, water features, water garden designs, UV lights, rock placement, filter systems, pond fish, marginal plants, preformed ponds, excavating, pond liners, plumbing, and landscaping.
Adding a pond or waterfall to your landscape can be very rewarding. "How to Build Ponds and Waterfalls and Much More..." ensures it will also be successful.
How to Keep Koi: An Essential Guide
Book Description: An invaluable guide for all aspiring Koi keepers keen to accept the challenge of maintaining and displaying these beautiful fish in their own pond. Using clear text, colour photographs and stunning graphics, this book provides a practical introduction to all aspects of keeping Koi, from pond building options and filtration methods to breeding and showing.
Other sections provide advice on siting a Koi pond in the garden and the vital aspects of feeding and health care.
The book closes with a helpful glossary, which includes clear descriptions of the variety names and Japanese terms used throughout the hobby.
Koi and Garden Pools: A Complete Introduction
The Living Pond: Water Gardens with Fish & Other Creatures
Book Description “Warm and wonderful advice.”—Ponds Magazine. “A pond’s tranquil surface of lily pads and lotus blossoms can conceal a surprisingly fecund realm teeming with fish, frogs, turtles, and other aquatic creatures—if you know what to do. Nash’s encyclopedic guide is geared to maximizing your success.”—Booklist.
Low-Maintenance Water Gardens
Book Description “Tells gardeners how to plan and construct a low-maintenance water garden...provides extensive information on filtration, plant and fish care, and seasonal maintenance. Nash explains how to select the correct site, how to prevent problems concerning tree roots, runoffs, and water tables, how to prevent spilling and flooding, and how to protect water gardens from predators. All 128 pages contain color photographs.” —Booklist.
The Master Book of the Water Garden
Book Description: Water has featured prominently in garden designs for thousands of years, and its appeal to the senses still attracts the imagination of gardeners worldwide. Ponds and other water features need careful planning, and though there are other books with wonderful ideas, many of them lack the very practical information that water gardeners need to know.
"The Master Book of the Water Garden" is the most comprehensive book on the subject. It includes detailed step-by-step illustrated instructions on all aspects of water garden construction and maintenance--from building a raised pond to propagating marginal plants. Philip Swindells also provides advice on choosing a style based on the reader's budget, time constraints, available site, and proposed function.
Ortho's All About Building Waterfalls, Ponds, and Streams
Book Description: Create beautiful, healthy water features with the detailed, step-by-step building instructions and the helpful advice on selecting materials and equipment in Orthos All About Building Waterfalls, Pools, and Streams, published by Meredith (R) Books.
Outdoor Water Features: 16 Easy-to-Build Projects For Your Yard and Garden
Book Description: No one can deny the power and attraction of water features. And it's never been easier for gardeners to add the sparkle and serenity of water to their own landscapes. Garden centers and flower shows throughout North America provide both the tools and the inspiration; this book will give readers the know-how.
Projects range from simple to more advanced. Readers can choose among a classic wall-mounted fountaio spout, a traditional or contemporary cascade and garden pond, an authentic Japanese-style bamboo water pump, witty water sculptures, and more. With 16 projects in all, this book has something to offer all tastes, budgets, and abilities.
Each project is accompanied by clear, step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow instructions, plus helpful tips and techniques. Also included is a list of tools and materials. Whether readers imagine a container bog garden, a romantic millstone fountain, or a cascade, this book will help them make it a reality.
Plants For Water Gardens: The Complete Guide To Aquatic Plants
Book 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.
The Pond Doctor: Planning & Maintaining A Healthy Water Garden
Book Description: “Everything one needs to know about a water garden is here: selecting a site, construction, building a waterfall, safety and water-quality tips, pumps and filtration, prevention of algae, and cleaning and maintaining a pond. This practical guide is illustrated throughout with color photographs.”—Booklist. “Chock-full of information... an extremely useful and highly recommended resource.” —American Horticulturist.
Pond Plants and Cultivation
Book Description: 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. Water gardeners can have color and blooming plant life virtually all year around when they choose projects and plants suggested in this manual. Advice and how-to instruction includes planting and propagation, recommended wetland and bog plants, creating foliage effects, and more. Approximately 175 full-color photos.
The Ponder's Bible
Book Description: The Ponder's Bible is the complete guide to building and maintaining your very own pond. It has it all from digging the hole to the towering waterfall, including costs.
Ponds & Fountains: Step-By-Step Projects
Book Description: Smart Guide: Ponds & Fountains leads readers through each step of selecting, designing, installing, and maintaining a pond or fountain. All the essential information a homeowner needs to successfully handle each task is packed into this concise construction manual. Detailed drawings clearly illustrate the step-by-step instructions, which are written with the do-it-yourselfer in mind. With the help of this Smart Guide, readers can add value to their homes while enjoying the greatest possible savings in time, effort, and money.
Popular Pond Plants
Book Description: How to use and maintain a wide range of plants in and around your garden pond, including water lilies, aquatics, marginals, and bog plants. The garden industry is booming, and this exceptionally illustrated full-color book is the perfect resource for budding or experienced pondscapers.
This book features all the popular types of pond plants. Specially commissioned step-by-step photos show planting techniques and maintenance, propagation, plus how to recognize and treat common plant pests and diseases.
Quick & Easy Container Water Gardens:
Simple-To-Make Water Features and Fountains for Indoor and Outdoor Gardens
I am one who loves to make outdoor fountains a little different every year. This book gives many ideas and is a must for the library of a water container garden enthusiast.
Book Description: Lavishly illustrated with 150 color photographs, this highly visual guide teaches readers how to create exciting water gardens in containers for inside the home or outside. Using the book's step-by-step instructions, photos, and drawings, readers will learn how to construct, plant, stock, and maintain a water garden. Includes suggestions for the best water garden plants, fish, and
Simple Fountains for Indoors & Outdoors:
20 Step-By-Step Projects
Fountains made from found objects or from stuff in the attic this book will inspire you to build new water features indoors or out. Since you are a gardener, I think it safe to say your fountain will be outdoors.
Book Description: Few elements are as ubiquitous or as essential as water, or as appealing for the soothing sights and sounds with which it enhances our environment. Fountains are the ideal way to incorporate water's magic into our homes and gardens, and the fountain maker becomes something of an illusionist, striving emulate nature and to conceal the mechanics that make the perpetual flow of water possible.
Dorcas Adkins is certainly a magician when it comes to fountain design. Her wizardry encompasses bamboo, wood, ceramic, concrete, stone, and metal creations, from small tabletop delights to full-sized garden waterfalls. Her extremely thorough and well-diagrammed instructions make even the most complex projects approachable--and some of them are indeed fairly complex, involving woodworking skills, plaster and concrete casting, ceramic modeling, soldering, or rigging an existing sculpture. But the results are well worth the effort, yielding Zen-like arrangements in which water trickles over a miniature bonsai garden, through bamboo piping, or into a rustic stone trough filled with water lilies; or more traditional Western constructions such as a ewer-toting cherub, a shell-and-stone-and-tile mosaic, or various spouting faces.
The Stream Garden: Create Your Own Natural-Looking Water Feature
Book Description: "...not to be missed if you are planning a water garden. The design elements are superior to most how-to books on the topic...streams rather than just single ponds [are a] way to join the move toward naturalism."--American Horticulturist. 128 pages, 40 color illus., 30 b/w illus., 7 1/2 x 9 3/4.
Waterfalls and Fountains
Book Description: This volume abounds in ideas for incorporating the glamour of cascading water in gardens of all sizes—for instance, by creating cascades, streams, springs, water spray patterns, ornamental falls, water staircases, and more. These handsome, instructively illustrated "how-to" books cover a wide array of imaginative water garden concepts. Exceptionally attractive 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 for stocking water gardens with fish and embellishing them with aquatic and waterside plants. These practical books emphasize low-maintenance water features that offer maximum beauty with a minimum of fuss. Approximately 175 full-color photos.
Waterfalls, Fountains, Pools & Streams: Designing & Building Water Features for Your Garden
Book Description: Nash and Hughes provide detailed instructions on how to construct waterfalls, fountains, pools, and streams of various sizes, some of which require a large lot and others only a very small space. There is information on basic installation, pump selection, plumbing, fountain accessories and maintenance, and all materials and tools required. An appendix lists 37 plants suitable for stream gardens, giving their growth habits, flowering times, and hardiness. Some of the larger projects would be rather difficult for average gardeners, and the authors suggest that it would be feasible for them to hire a qualified contractor or landscape architect. George Cohen
Water Features for Small Gardens
Book Description: Dip into this wealth of inspirational ideas for everything from tiny pebble pools to more elaborate fish ponds, rills, and steps. Lush photographs accompany practical information on good design and sound construction. There’s guidance on style and siting, and on plants that thrive in the pond, on its edge, and in the surrounding areas. Plus: “Case histories” of actual water gardens and vital advice on aeration, water purification, and pump care.
Water Features for Small Gardens
From Concept to Construction
Book Description: Celebrated designer Keith Davitt brings the delights of the water garden within reach of everyone in this book. 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.
The Water Garden Design Book
Book Description: Here's how to transform an ordinary backyard garden into true showpiece. This beautiful, color-filled, idea-packed book will energize creative imaginations with its 15 garden design projects, all having water features. Whether designed around a pond, a brook, a small pool, or a simple waterspout, a garden becomes a place of magic when water is one of its design elements. Each of this book's projects is illustrated with a dozen or more high-detail pictures showing plant, accessory, and landscape particulars. These details are brought together in a photo of the entire garden, complemented with a full-color diagrammatic drawing that is keyed to each of the individually illustrated details. Options and variations on each theme show gardeners how to customize the book's designs to suit their own climate, soil, and garden space. Additional features include:A 14-page comprehensive plant directoryA 10-page directory of fish to populate the pond or other water sourceA detailed chapter on care and maintenance of both pond and garden More than 200 full-color illustrations and clear, step-by-step instructions cover every aspect of water garden planning and construction.
The Water Garden Encyclopedia
Book Description: Whether it's a simple pond, an imaginative waterfall, or a lavish fountain, the water garden is fast-becoming one of the most popular and exciting backyard features.
Water weaves an exciting strand into the tapestry of any garden. A calm pool mirrors the sky and surrounding trees. Fountains, streams and waterfalls introduce movement and the relaxing sound of splashing water.
The Water Garden Encyclopedia opens with a section that explains how to get started and covers the basic principles of siting, finding the right equipment, and calculating sizes and capacities. The contents are then divided into six main sections:
- Water gardening in containers
- Formal ponds and water gardens
- Natural water gardens
- Waterfalls and fountains
- Imaginative use of pond features and decorations
- Pond plants and cultivation
Each section includes step-by-step illustrations and design ideas to spark the reader's imagination.
The Water Garden Encyclopedia provides all the expert guidance that's needed -- for beginner and experienced gardener alike.
- Lavishly illustrated and comprehensive
- The ultimate guide to designing, constructing, planting, and maintaining garden pools and water features
- Packed with tips, instructions, and photographs that guide the gardener through each stage
Water Gardening in Containers: Small Ponds, Indoors & Out
Book Description Just because you don't have a pond or even room or time for one doesn't mean you'll never enjoy a water garden. All you need is a container no bigger than a fish aquarium and a few minutes a week. The beautiful and simple water gardening methods presented here are inspired by the Chinese, who've been doing it for nearly 5,000 years. Choose from a surprising variety of containers and plantings, from classic lotuses and small water lilies peeking out of traditional urns to pots and tubs on windowsills and door stoops. These miniature water gardens are a combined aquarium-terrarium and can excite the imagination more than either, even though they're easier to care for than potted geraniums or pansies in window boxes. Here is the basic information needed on how to select a container (anything you can seal and make watertight); how to maintain water quality (only a small pump, or maybe none); the most attractive low-maintenance plants and how to care for them; how to stock fish, prevent predators and pests, adapt your care to the four seasons, and much more; all with color photos to inspire your ideas, and closeup photos and drawings to show how to carry out each step of preparation, manufacture, and care.
Water Gardening With Derek Fell
Water in the Garden : A Complete Guide to the Design and Installation of Ponds, Fountains, Streams, and Waterfalls
Water in the Garden : Inspiring Ideas and Designs for Beautiful Water Features
Book Description: This is a celebration of water in all its breathtaking forms, from formal pools and rills to cascading streams and waterfalls, from bog gardens to swimming pools.
Waterlilies and Lotuses
Species, Cultivars, and New Hybrids
Book Description In this fully updated work, Perry Slocum describes nearly 500 species and cultivars of the crowning jewels of water gardens, the waterlilies and lotuses. This book includes more than 130 of the best new hybrids introduced since the landmark Water Gardening: Water Lilies and Lotuses by Perry Slocum and Peter Robinson was published. All species and the major cultivars, including day- and night-blooming tropical and hardy waterlilies and lotuses, are described along with the author's and hybridizers' comments on the best landscape uses for each plant. Although the genera Nymphaea and Nelumbo receive special emphasis, a chapter is also devoted to the other genera in the waterlily family, Nuphar, Victoria, Euryale, Barclaya, and Ondinea. In addition to his achievements as a hybridizer, Slocum is an award-winning nature photographer. Waterlilies and Lotuses is illustrated with 350 stunning color photographs of these exotic beauties, with more than 100 photos published here for the first time. With information on hardiness, including maps for Europe and the United States, and an extensive list of suppliers of water gardening plants and equipment in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, Waterlilies and Lotuses is a truly definitive resource for water gardeners the world over.
Water Gardens: Simple Projects, Contemporary Designs
Water Works: Creating a Splash in the Garden
Book Description Written for gardeners and homeowners, Water Works is a rich source of ideas and techniques if you wish to incorporate water features into your home landscape. It covers everything from ponds, waterfalls, and streams to fountains, pools, and spas. Gloriously illustrated with on-site photographs, these colorful pages show how water--tranquil, sensuous, or playful--can set the tone for your entire landscape. This unique gardening book explains how to successfully blend new water features into an existing garden environment and offers specific planting recommendations for a variety of water sites. Important design, mechanical, and safety information is also included.
Your Healthy Garden Pond (Interpet Handbooks)
Book Description: A colourful and practical guide to keeping your pond in great condition. Clear text, photographs and artwork illustrations show you how to create and maintain a well-balanced pond environment in which both plants and fish can thrive. Learn how pond filters work and how you can clear troublesome algae from the water. Special sections look at seasonal maintenance and show you how to clean out your pond for a fresh start.
The book features a selection of pond fish, with guidance on choosing the best kinds for your pond and how to keep them in healthy condition.
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