- Hardcover: 216 pages
- Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd (10 April 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0751303046
- ISBN-13: 978-0751303049
- Product Dimensions: 29 x 23.6 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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360,035 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #69 in Books > Home & Garden > Gardening > Encyclopedias > Royal Horticultural Society
- #98 in Books > Home & Garden > Gardening > Garden Styles > Water Features & Ponds
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In addition to information on designing, building, planting, stocking and maintaining water gardens, this guide contains many design ideas and an illustrated plant catalogue of 150 aquatic and moisture-loving plants. Photographs and artworks illustrate the horticultural and building techniques needed to create pools, streams, canals and fountains in every style, from a richly planted wildlife pond to the traditional Japanese tsukubai. Recent information on new construction materials, pumps and filters is included.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Excellent detail, photos and ideas for those considering water features. Plenty of examples and clever tricks and ideas to get you on your way. The ultimate reference book, where was my copy when I built my first Koi pond ?
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I initially borrowed this book from a keen pond and fish keeper. I was interested in building a pond and keeping fish and this book has answered all my questions and shown the way forward. Perhaps a little expensive but recommended anyway.
Format:Hardcover
I've had this book for a few years and just re-read it - the fact that I'd not looked at it again since first shelving it, tells you part of the story. It is thick, and lavishly illustrated with both diagrams and photographs as all DK books characteristically are. The first time you look at it, you'll be impressed, and the second time. But if you actually read the text all the way through, you'll be left disappointed. The point about all that illustration, is that there's actually very little text, so you get as much depth (pun unintentional) as you'd get in some smaller books. The stuff on pumps and filters is all very much out of date now, as are some of the garden design fashions illustrated. And there are a few weird bits - how to make a pond edged with railway sleepers... which involves covering the sleepers up with boards ??? Nice to look at, and possibly contains stuff that beginners will appreciate, but for anyone who's already made a pond or two, it will feel rather more like a children's picture book than a serious reference source.
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