Constructing Garden Ponds, Waterfalls, Streams, and Fountains

Building Garden Pools, Waterfalls & Fountains

• Complete Guide to Water Gardens: Ponds, Fountains, Waterfalls, Streams
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• -Kathleen Fisher / Paperback 208 pages / Published February 2000
  This book is a comprehensive guide to designing and installing all types of water gardens. Covers every "how to" step of the process from planning and construction, through landscaping and stocking your creation with fish. Explains design priciples and construction techniques for ponds, fountains, waterfalls and bridges with an easy to understand text, illustrations and color photographs.
  Includes coverage on accessories such as plants, fish, birds, and proper maintenance.
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• Pond Doctor: Planning & Maintaining a Healthy Water Garden
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• -Helen Nash, Ronald E. Everhart, Photographer / Paperback 128 pages / Published 1997
  This book is an excellent source of important and practical information on the proper care of garden ponds and other water features, controlling pond pests and pond maintenance. covers water quality algae concerns, plant propogation, plant and fish diseases.
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• Plants for Water Gardens: The Complete Guide to Aquatic Plants
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• -Helen Nash, Steve Stroupe, Perry D. Slocom & Bob Romar, Photographers
  Paperback 334 pages / Published August 1999
  This is an essential book for all serious water gardeners. This detailed manual will help you select, cultivate, and care for the aquatic plants in your water garden. Extensive, fully illustrated directories list the commonly available submerged aquatic plants for ornamental ponds, floating aquatics and aquatics with floating leaves, hardy and tropical water lilies, lotuses, marginal aquatics, and water irises.For each plant you'll get its scientific and common names, a description of its appearance and habits, and important information on potting, growing, and propagation. This valuable resource will help ensure the success of your garden.
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• Ortho's All About Garden Pools and Fountains
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• -Veronica Lorson Fowler, Jamie Beyer / Paperback 96 pages / Published March 1999
  Ortho has produced an excellent book for the first time builder. Provides complete easily followed step-by-step instructions for planning and installing ponds, streams, waterfalls, bog gardens and fountains.
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• Garden Pools, Fountains & Waterfalls
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• -Scott Atkinson, Editor / Paperback 128 pages / Published January 1999
  This book from Southern Living covers the material in a complete, but very basic manner. The pictures present some very good idea "starters" for designing your own garden water features.
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• Waterfalls, Fountains, Pools & Streams: Designing & Building Water Features for Your Garden
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• -Helen Nash, Eamonn Hughes / Paperback 128 pages / Published 1999
  This book provides complete detailed instructions on how to construct waterfalls, fountains, pools, and streams. Also cover pump selection, plumbing, accessories and maintenance. covers the materials and tools required.
  An appendix lists 37 plants suitable for stream gardens, giving their growth habits, flowering times, and hardines.
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• How to Build Ponds and Waterfalls: The Complete Guide
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• -Jeffrey Reid / Paperback 80 pages / Published January 1998
  This well written instruction manual covers all the correct steps. Instructions are clearly written with many illustrations. The section on building a waterfall is outstanding.
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• The Complete Pond Builder: Greating a Beautiful Water Garden
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• -Helen Nash / Paperback 144 pages / Published April 1997
  This is a good manual for the beginning pond builder. One can design and build a very nice small pond using this book as a guide. Covers, preformed plastic liners, using concrete, raised and earth ponds, waterfall and stream constuction, pond edges, pumps and filteration. Color photographs and diagrams.
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• Simple Fountains for Indoors & Outdoors: 20 Step-by-Step Projects
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• -Dorcas Adkins / Hardcover, 149 pages / Published November 1999
  This excellent book show in detail how to make these fountains from bamboo, wood, ceramic, concrete, stone and just about anything. Cover the complete design and construction including pump selection and installation.
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• Water in the Garden: A Complete guide to The Design and Installation of Ponds, Fountains, Streams, and Waterfalls
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• -James Allison / Hardcover 160 pages / Published April 1991
  Illustrate with 259 color photographs, explains design priciples and construction techniques for ponds, fountains, waterfalls and bridges. Cover accessories such as plants, fish and birds.
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• Koi: Everything About Selection, Care, Nutrition,Diseases, Breeding, Pond Design and maintenance, and Popular Aquatic Plants
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• -George C. Blasiola / Paperback 104 pages / Published September 1995
  Great introduction to Koi owner ship and care. Vivid photos of the different Koi breeds and a complete section of their diseases.
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• The Ultimate Koi
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• -Nick Fletcher (Editor) / Hardcover 256 pages / Published December 1999
  In this excellent cpmprehensive volume, editor Nick Fletcher has recruited a star-studded cast of specialists to contribute to this definitive pictorial reference.
  The book is divided into five main sections:
  

  • Section I:
    The anatomy and physiology of Koi is examined. There is a detailed, illustrated breakdown of the Koi varieties, with a special study of Tategoi and unique Koi.
  • Section II:
    Covers the building and setting up a Koi pond, including an in-depth examination of filtration and a survey of the best plants to buy to create the ideal Koi environment. Advice is given on seasonal care of the Koi pond, plus tips on maintaining a small Koi pond.
  • Section III:
    Covers Koi Care, starting with maturing the pond and filter and buying Koi, followed by chapters on feeding, breeding and handling Koi. There is comprehensive coverage of disease and parasites in Koi, with advice on disease recognition and treatment.
  • Section IV:
    Covers enjoying your Koi. This gives guidelines on showing and judging Koi, and information on the range of club activities available.
  • Section V:
    The final section is a useful reference, with tips on general maintenance and pond security. Lavishly illustrated with over 200 colour photographs, this book is a must for the true Koi connoisseur.
    

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