Designing Water Gardens: A Unique Approach

By Anthony Archer-Wills

Book Overview

It surges down stairs, jets up from a spring, burbles from a stream--and water is the lifeblood of a garden that can transform it into a heavenly place. Capture the many exciting and sensual qualities... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840911565
• ISBN13: 9781840911565
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Conran Octopus
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.8" x 1.0" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Lush fish-less and plant-less pools, falls, & designs.

This is a beautiful coffee-table book with tons of visual input for the starved artistic water feature designer. If you are not looking to learn everything there is to know about koi ponds and algeacides, but rather want to know how to design a stunning water feature, waterfall, interior/exterior pool, or other beautiful landscape feature, you have finally found your source. I did not want to wade through yet another book about how to lay down liners and how to stock koi. What I hungered for were artistic design ideas. Well here they are! Find out where several spouts work to give a design effect with low noise ratios. Discover types of tiles to lay as borders and how they complement the color and tonal ranges of the house shadows and materials. Discover the source, run, and destination parameters for designing waterways and mystery gardens that will capture anyone who peeks into your landscape. Love these photos and the writing is excellent too. This is a book for the visually hungry REST of us who want to design something extraordinary, tiny or medium or huge, while captururing reflection or idea or humor along with our landscape creation.