Garden Pools, Fountains and Watercourses : Exciting New Ideas for Home Water Gardens

This manual features construction techniques, planting instructions and care for building backyard garden pools, ponds, fountains, streams, waterfalls and other water features.

There are 25 projects, such as a natural stream waterfall feature and a marsh-bog garden.

Each project is summarized in a detailed "recipe" list that provides beginners and intermediate gardeners with a key to building a water garden, with references to skill, equipment and materials, and step-by-step instructions on technique. The volume includes a detailed encyclopaedia of the 85 most popular aquatic plants, USDA plant hardiness maps, on-line Web resources, and an index.

Chapters feature: planning; design; installation; construction; planting; and care of water gardens.