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Water Gardens: Specialist Guide, Home Gardener's

The essential illustrated guide to enhancing your outdoor space with bubbling, splashing, flowing water!

For centuries, water has been a source of inspiration and delight to people of all cultures, making it a common feature of garden design worldwide. The tranquility of water has the power to soothe the senses, while moving water can add an energetic new dimension to a garden. This lushly illustrated guide gives an overview of water garden styles and explains how to assess which style is suitable for a particular plot, and includes advice on planning, construction, oxygenation, and filtration.

Inspirational pictures and step-by-step diagrams showcase a willow pattern water garden, a Japanese water garden, a castaway island water garden, and more. In addition to information on stocking ponds with plants, fish, and other aquatic life, there’s also full coverage of maintenance, improvements, and troubleshooting

Alan Bridgewater, Gill Bridgewater

Alan and Gill Bridgewater have gained an international reputation as promoters of the self-sufficient lifestyle. They produce gardening, woodworking, and DIY books on a range of subjects, including furniture-making, hand tool techniques, stone and brickwork, decks and decking, wood-carving and woodturning. They have written more than 50 highly successful books to date, including The Self-Sufficiency Specialist and The Wildlife Garden Specialist. Alan and Gill frequently contribute articles and designs to national magazines.

Fox Chapel Publishing