Backyard Ponds, Fountains & Waterfalls for Your House: Designing, Setting up, Planting (Artistic Home-owner) Step-by-Step Sequences & Over 400 Photographs to Panorama Your Backyard with Water, Crops, & Fish

All of the inspiration and data it is advisable create your personal residence water backyard!

• Over 490 shade images and illustrations present inspiration and path for setting up water backyard buildings
• Straightforward step-by-step sequences and directions for pond foundations, moving-water options, pond cleansing, troubleshooting, and extra
• Sensible recommendation on each consideration of planning your water backyard—measurement, type, gentle, location, local weather, slopes, supplies, configuration, and extra
• All varieties of residence water gardens are coated, from naturalistic to formal, plus fountains, waterfalls, streams, and bathroom gardens
• Aquatic crops, fish, and different pond inhabitants are coated in depth, from koi, tench, and frogs to herons, dragonflies, and snails, plus which nuisance bugs to be on the alert for
• Bridges and stepping-stones are included, with instruments & supplies lists and design directions
• Discover historic inspiration from Historic Egypt, Greece, Rome, Persia, China, Japan, and Europe with an outline of water gardens all through historical past

Fantastically illustrated with over 490 lush images, Backyard Ponds, Fountains & Waterfalls for Your House supplies important data on designing and putting in all varieties of residence water gardens, from naturalistic to formal, plus fountains, waterfalls, streams, and bathroom gardens.

You may discover ways to assemble every of those buildings, in addition to the right way to design wood bridges and stepping-stones. You may additionally discover recommendation and crops for all areas, with particular suggestions for gardens in excessive situations, and zone charts.

Professional creator Kathleen Fisher was for 10 years the editor of The American Gardener, printed by the American Horticultural Society. Her invaluable how-to data information and complete plant encyclopedia is nice for brand new and seasoned gardeners alike.

Backyard Ponds, Fountains & Waterfalls for Your House will educate you all it is advisable know to create and preserve the water backyard of your desires!