Backyard Water Gardens

Backyard Water Gardens
Author: Veronica Fowler
Publisher: Strange Chemistry
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2013-04-08
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1591865530

Backyard Water Gardens is a complete overview of everything you need to know in order to create a backyard water feature, from ideas, to installation, to maintaining, to stocking with plants and fish.

Backyard Water Gardens

Backyard Water Gardens
Author: Veronica L. Fowler
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1610587340

Veronica Fowler’s comprehensive step-by-step manual shows you not only how to install your water garden, but maintain it entirely on your own.Backyard Water Gardens teaches you how to install liners, pre-formed shapes, containers, and aboveground pools and fountains. From there, it helps you choose plants, add them to your garden, fertilize, prune, divide, and ward off pests and diseases. But Fowler’s book goes far beyond the basics, covering all the maintenance and troubleshooting of water feature hardscapes—from a rip in a liner, to a damaged pool, to maintaining equipment and filters (including seasonal maintenance for winter care). Veronica Fowler’s Backyard Water Gardens allows you to fully enjoy the convenience and versatility of water gardening, all while maintaining it with ease for years to come.Backyard Water Gardens is truly an all-inclusive manual, encompassing every style, type, and size of water feature imaginable. No matter the “feel� you wish to convey in your garden—casual, formal, or whimsical—Fowler’s book enables you to create it with confidence. Your range of hardscape options is incredibly vast, from small, container-sized fountains that complement any space with added sound and movement, to large in-ground or aboveground ponds and streams. Larger installations not only provide soothing, rejuvenating sights and sounds; they can also house fish and plants and passively attract natural wildlife to your backyard.

The Water-Saving Garden

The Water-Saving Garden
Author: Pam Penick
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-02-23
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1607747944

A guide to growing beautiful gardens in drought-prone areas utilizing minimal water for maximum results. With climate change, water rationing, and drought on the rise, water conservation is more important than ever—but that doesn’t mean your gardening options are limited to cacti and rocks. The Water-Saving Garden provides gardeners and homeowners with a diverse array of techniques and plentiful inspiration for creating sustainable gardens that are so beautiful and inviting, it’s hard to believe they are water-thrifty. Including a directory of 100 plants appropriate for a variety of drought-prone regions of the country, this accessible and contemporary xeriscaping guide is full of must-know information on popular gardening topics like native and drought-tolerant plants (including succulents), rainwater harvesting, greywater systems, permeable paving, and more.

Outdoor Water Features

Outdoor Water Features
Author: Gill Bridgewater
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-01-31
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781580173346

Bring life and movement to your outdoor living space with the sparkle and cool serenity of water. Alan and Gill Bridgewater show you how to add ponds, pools, cascades, waterspouts, and more to your garden or yard. With step-by-step instructions for 16 easy projects that include a classic wall-mounted fountain spout, a Japanese-style bamboo water pump, and even a container bog garden, you’ll soon be building a stylish water feature that’s perfectly suited to your landscape.

Design Your Own Pond and Water Garden

Design Your Own Pond and Water Garden
Author: Susan Sales Harkins
Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2009-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1612282547

Everyone loves a garden filled with bright colors, soft textures, and lovely smells. Add a little water to the mix and you have the perfect spot to relax and enjoy the best of nature. Relaxing by your water garden is the end of a long but rewarding process. Follow these step-by-step instructions for finding the best spot in your yard for a healthy water garden, designing and digging it, choosing water flowers, and adding fish. You can even build a toad house to attract wild visitors to your backyard. When all the designing, digging, lining, planting, and stocking is done, you can sit in your own private oasis and enjoy nature’s gorgeous bounty. Color, movement, scent—it all adds up to life!

Garden Ponds, Fountains & Waterfalls for Your Home

Garden Ponds, Fountains & Waterfalls for Your Home
Author: Editors of Creative Homeowner
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages: 611
Release: 2017-04-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1607654377

How to design and create water gardens, ponds, and fountains. Over 490 color photographs and illustrations.

The American Horticultural Society Complete Guide to Water Gardening

The American Horticultural Society Complete Guide to Water Gardening
Author: Peter Robinson
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1997
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

Gives hands-on advice on designing and creating formal and informal water gardens with still or moving water, stones, bridges, lighting, decking, or fish. Includes a catalog of over 150 plants suitable for water gardens and over 700 photographs and illustrations.

Water-wise Gardening

Water-wise Gardening
Author: Thomas Christopher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1994
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

In an elegantly written book, the author of In Search of Lost Roses examines how water shortages and environmental concerns are prompting a remarkable solution--the emergence of low-water gardening, one of the newest, most creative areas in gardening today. Color photos.

Wild Your Garden

Wild Your Garden
Author: Jim and Joel Ashton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020-04-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9780241435816

"It's up to every single one of us to do our bit for wildlife, however small our gardens, and The Butterfly Brothers know just how that can be achieved." Alan Titchmarsh Join the rewilding movement and share your outdoor space with nature. We all have the potential to make the world a little greener. Wild Your Garden, written by Jim and Joel Ashton (aka "The Butterfly Brothers"), shows you how to create a garden that can help boost local biodiversity. Transform a paved-over yard into a lush oasis, create refuges to welcome and support native species, or turn a high-maintenance lawn into a nectar-rich mini-meadow to attract bees and butterflies. You don't need specialist knowledge or acres of land. If you have any outdoor space, you can make a difference to local wildlife, and reduce your carbon footprint, too. "Wildlife gardening is one of the most important things you can do as an individual for increasing biodiversity and mitigating the effects of climate change. From digging a pond to planting a native hedge, the Butterfly Brothers can help you every step of the way." Kate Bradbury