Landscaping Earth Ponds: The Complete Guide

By Tim Matson

Book Overview

A fixture of beautiful, ecologically-minded landscape designs, earth ponds are cherished for their innate aesthetic appeal, economic value, and the unique recreational opportunities they offer. Everyone knows that installing a well-designed pond can dramatically improve the value of a piece land, but detailed instructions for how to do so--and do so well--are frustratingly hard to find. Finally, here is a book with answers to all your earth pond questions and more.

Tim Matson has spent decades designing earth ponds and the landscapes that surround them. He has a remarkable eye for suiting these charming natural bodies of water to your property and lifestyle. With over 25 years' experience as an aquaculture consultant and landscape architect, he can teach you everything you need to know about designing and building an earth pond of your very own. In clear, step-by-step directions, Landscaping Earth Ponds explains...

How to create a strong aesthetic link between your house and pond

How to encourage plant life and establish lush aquatic gardens

How to accent your pond with winding paths and blooming hedges

How to screen your pond for privacy

How to build natural diving platforms

How to select the best materials for fill, embankments, and sandy beaches

Richly illustrated with photos and diagrams, and jam-packed with inspirational ideas, designs, and examples, Landscaping Earth Ponds is the number one resource for sustainable and tasteful pond design.

Tim Matson, a prize-winning writer and aquaculture consultant, has been advising people on how to build and maintain ponds and wetlands for more than 25 years through Earth Ponds, his pond design and restoration consulting firm. He has written numerous articles on ponds and aquaculture for Yankee, Harrowsmith Country Life, Country Journal, Vermont Life, Audubon, and other periodicals. He is the author of the Earth Ponds, Earth Ponds Sourcebook, and Earth Ponds A to Z. He also produced the Earth Ponds Video. Matson has presented his ideas at seminars and conferences around the U.S. He lives in Vermont.

Readers interested in related titles from Tim Matson will also want to see: Earth Ponds Sourcebook (ISBN: 162654347X ).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626543984
• ISBN13: 9781626543980
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Repairing Dam on Earth Pond (Lake)

My dam on the lake collapsed on April 1st 2005. I have been looking for a book with information on how to build (re-build) an earthen dam. This book has a lot of good ideas on how to build an earthen dam and it doesn't hurt to know that the author has been building them for over 20 years. The neighbors said that the dam has been re-built 2 times, and they still have not learned from their mistakes. With this book I can point out the problems and try to rebuild it to last longer than 2 years. Can't wait to try his techniques.

Strongly recommended for anyone searching for an all-inclusive instructional guide to pond building

Tim Watson draws upon more than 25 years of experience and expertise building ponds and developing wetlands in Landscaping Earth Ponds: The Complete Guide. Here is a informative, step-by-step, profusely illustrated reference for creating a more lively and beautifying diverse landscapes and home-area garden areas with ponds. Providing "user friendly" information on how ponds work to enhance a landscape, create recreational opportunities, help the environment, and increase property values, Landscaping Earth Ponds offers a complete and readily accessible account of a variety of methods and techniques to employ in the creation of a pond. An important addition to any personal, professional, or community library reference collection, Landscaping Earth Ponds is very strongly recommended for anyone searching for an all-inclusive instructional guide to pond building and encouraging natural beauty through the development of a customized pond appropriate to the rest of the landscaping environment.