The Water Garden: A Practical Guide to Planning & Planting (The Wayside Gardens Collection)

By Peter Robinson

Book Overview

...lavish and functional...The sights and sounds of water complement any garden...gives advice on choosing the best water feature and then gives details on creating a variety of pools, fountains, streams, waterfalls, bog gardens, and container water gardens. There's information on propagating aquatics, stocking a pool, caring for a pool, and treating plant and fish diseases and disorders. There's also a list of key plants for water gardens... -- Booklist. Any garden, regardless of its size, can be turned into an enchanting wonderland with the addition of a water feature. Bring the magic of water -- its vitality and beauty -- to any yard with the inspiration and information presented in this lush, richly colored idea book. Installation and construction guidelines and suggestions, plans, and techniques -- all fully illustrated -- help make visions become reality. Colorful drawings of planting plans and descriptions, and cultivation information for selected plants, make it relatively easy to incorporate submerged, floating, marginal, and moisture-loving plants, and of course water lilies, in and around a water feature. Whether you want to listen to the natural music of a babbling brook or sit by the side of a still, silent pond, you'll be delighted by the possibilities and joys of a water garden.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806908467
• ISBN13: 9780806908465
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.5" x 10.5"