Download or read book DIY Guide to Ponds Fountains Rain Gardens Water Features Revised Edition written by Nina Koziol and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to make the water garden of your dreams! DIY Guide to Ponds, Fountains, Rain Gardens & Water Features provides essential information on designing and installing all types of home water gardens, plus fountains, waterfalls, streams, rain gardens, and more. With this expert guide, you’ll learn how to construct each of these structures, as well as how to incorporate a variety of aquatic plants, fish, and other pond inhabitants. A best-selling resource, this newly updated edition features today’s newest technologies and products, such as pond-less waterfall kits for small spaces, as well as a new chapter on constructing naturalistic swimming ponds that are free from chlorine. Also included is new information on construction, planting methods, and various DIY ponds, water features, and rain gardens that are suitable for both small, urban lots and expansive suburban landscapes.
Download or read book Garden Ponds Fountains Waterfalls for Your Home written by Editors of Creative Homeowner and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to design and create water gardens, ponds, and fountains. Over 490 color photographs and illustrations.
Download or read book Backyard Water Gardens written by Veronica Fowler and published by Strange Chemistry. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Outdoor Water Features written by Gill Bridgewater and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2001-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Rain Gardens written by Lynn M. Steiner and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rain gardens are at the forefront of the green revolution. This environmentally friendly landscaping captures rainwater runoff rather than redirecting it into storm drains. The result is less erosion, less water pollution, and a beautiful, low-maintenance, sustainable garden. This is the first rain garden handbook for the backyard home gardener. Co-authors Robert Domm and Lynn Steiner draw on hands-on experience to help homeowners build beautiful rain gardens in their own yards. Illustrated with color photography, this instructive book offers specific advice about planning, building, planting, and maintaining your garden. Learn about city grants, how to calculate runoff, rain barrels, attracting wildlife, gray water recycling, and much more.
Download or read book The Water Gardener written by Anthony Archer-Wills and published by Todtri Productions. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 160 full-color photographs and 80 schematic diagrams. Nothing so completely transforms a garden as a water feature, whether it is a placid pool or pond, a flowing stream, a burbling fountain, or a cascading waterfall. Water draws the light and provides a baseline to which all neighboring elements relate. Its horizontality makes it an ideal foil to the vertical lines of trees, reeds, and other plantings. Filled with ideas and practical suggestions, this profusely illustrated guide offers all the knowledge needed to incorporate any water feature, large or small, into any garden. This volume demonstrates the many ways in which water can enhance a scene and shows how to exploit its myriad moods in imaginative and practical ways. Finally, it raises the art of garden design with water and the craft of its usage to new levels of excellence.
Download or read book Waterfalls Fountains Pools Streams written by Helen Nash and published by Sterling Publishing (NY). This book was released on 1999 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing & building water features in your garden.
Download or read book The American Horticultural Society Complete Guide to Water Gardening written by Peter Robinson and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1997 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Creating Rain Gardens written by Apryl Uncapher and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homeowners spend hundreds of dollars watering their yard, but there is an easy way to save money and resources—rain gardening. But what is it? As simple as collecting rain to reuse in front and backyards. Creating Rain Gardens is a comprehensive book for the DIY-er, covering everything from rain barrels to simple living roofs, permeable patios, and other low-tech affordable ways to save water in the garden. Water conservation experts Cleo Woelfle-Erskine and Apryl Uncapher walk homeowners through the process, with step-by-step instructions for designing and building swales, French drains, rain gardens, and ephemeral ponds—the building blocks of rain-catching gardens. From soil preparation, planting, troubleshooting, and maintenance, to selecting palettes of water-loving plants that provide four-season interest and a habitat for wildlife, Creating Rain Gardens covers everything a gardener needs to create a beautiful rain garden at home.
Download or read book Garden Pools Fountains Waterfalls written by Editors of Sunset Books and published by Oxmoor House. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestseller lures readers into the languid ease and peaceful beauty of water features with its richly expanded photo gallery. The great design ideas are backed up with step-by-step instructions for constructing ponds, fountains, and waterfalls. Plant recommendations are included.
Download or read book Mid Atlantic Home Landscaping 4th Edition written by Roger Holmes and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover endless home landscaping ideas and outdoor DIY projects in this must-have landscaping book! Mid-Atlantic Home Landscaping, 4th Edition features inspiring ideas for making your home landscape more attractive and functional. Featuring 200 of the best native plants that thrive in the Mid-Atlantic region, also included are step-by-step instructions for building paths, patios, walls, fences, arbors, trellises, and other structures. New to this edition is up-to-date information on eco-friendly plant selections, guidance on avoiding invasive plants and how to identify regional species, details on impervious versus porous paved surfaces, why stormwater runoff matters, permaculture, and more!
Download or read book Southern Coastal Home Landscaping Second Edition written by Stephen G. Pategas and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: · A complete guide to landscaping specifically within the southern coastal region (states: AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) · Features 38 designs created by landscape professionals that consider the unique climate and environment of salty air and high winds · Offers creative solutions for front entries, foundation plantings, patios, steep slopes, and more · Detailed descriptions of more than 160 native plants picked to thrive in the coastal environment, including many low-water-use and salt-tolerant plants · Step-by-step instructions for building structures, such as paths, patios, ponds, walls, and trellises · New updated edition includes guidance on native planting and which noxious, banned, or invasive species to avoid, plus information on permaculture, the impact of climate change, and more
Download or read book Midwest Home Landscaping including South Central Canada 4th Edition written by Denise Schrieber, Technical Editor and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ·A complete guide to landscaping specifically within the Midwest region (United States: IA, IL, IN, MI, MN, MO, OH, WI), and southern Ontario, Canada ·Features 46 designs created by landscape professionals that consider the unique climate and environment of the Midwest -featuring creative solutions for front entries, foundation plantings, patios, steep slopes, and much more ·Detailed descriptions of more than 200 plants picked for your region, plus all you need to know to plant and maintain them ·Step-by-step instructions for building structures, such as paths, patios, ponds, walls, fences, arbors, and trellises ·New updated edition includes guidance on native planting while also listing banned, noxious, or invasive plants, updated information on permaculture, the impact of climate change, a new section on integrated plant management, an updated USDA Plant Hardiness Zone map, and more
Download or read book Sunset Outdoor Design Build Guide Garden Pools Fountains Waterfalls written by Editors of Sunset Magazine and published by Oxmoor House. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water features are peaceful yet dramatic accents that can transform any backyard into paradise. Rich with inspirational photography and step-by-step building instruction, Outdoor Design & Build Guide: Garden Pools, Fountains & Waterfalls takes you by the hand to select your ideal outdoor project and make it a reality. With a modern and easy-to-follow format, clear instructions, and friendly tone, this book will inspire you to build the backyard of their dreams. Outdoor Design & Build Guide: Garden Pools, Fountains & Waterfalls includes: More than two dozen approachable projects from streams and ponds to fountains and waterfalls How-to photo sequences Tips on choosing not only what fits your style, but what is best for your specific property An additional troubleshooting guide at the end of the book that informs you how to best maintain the projects you have built
Download or read book Building Natural Ponds written by Robert Pavlis and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build a natural pond for wildlife, beauty, and quiet contemplation Typical backyard ponds are a complicated mess of pipes, pumps, filters, and nasty chemicals designed to adjust pH and keep algae at bay. Hardly the bucolic, natural ecosystem beloved by dragonflies, frogs, and songbirds. The antidote is a natural pond, free of hassle, cost, and complexity and designed as a fully functional ecosystem, ideal for biodiversity, swimming, irrigation, and quiet contemplation. Building Natural Ponds is the first step-by-step guide to designing and building natural ponds that use no pumps, filters, chemicals, or electricity and mimic native ponds in both aesthetics and functionality. Highly illustrated with how-to drawings and photographs, coverage includes: Understanding pond ecosystems and natural algae control Planning, design, siting, and pond aesthetics Step-by-step guidance for construction, plants and fish, and maintenance and trouble shooting Scaling up to large ponds, pools, bogs, and rain gardens. Whether you're a backyard gardener looking to add a small serene natural water feature or a homesteader with visions of a large pond for fish, swimming, and irrigation, Building Natural Ponds is the complete guide to building ponds in tune with nature, where plants, insects, and amphibians thrive in blissful serenity. Robert Pavlis , a Master Gardener with over 40 years of gardening experience, is owner and developer of Aspen Grove Gardens, a six-acre botanical garden featuring over 2,500 varieties of plants. A well-respected speaker and teacher, Robert has published articles in Mother Earth News , Ontario Gardening magazine, the widely read blog GardenMyths.com, which explodes common gardening myths and gardening information site GardenFundamentals.com.
Download or read book RHS How to Create a Wildlife Pond written by Kate Bradbury and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best way to attract wildlife to your garden is to build a pond. Discover how to do it, and then watch the wildlife come, month by month. Whether you want to do something for the environment, build a pond as a family project, or attract local biodiversity to your garden, a wildlife pond is a perfect addition to your gardening efforts. Inside the pages of this book about creating a wildlife pond you will find: • Photographic step-by-step guide on creating and maintaining a variety of pond types, including natural-style ponds, container ponds, and more traditional, formal-style ponds that still attract wildlife • Evocative, in-depth chapters that tell the story of your pond through the year: what you can expect to see happen, the creatures that will visit and live in and around the pond, and tips on what to look out for and how to keep it in good condition • An eye-catching mixture of photography and illustration, similar to the style used in DK’s How to Attract Birds to Your Garden Your very own backyard oasis Create a natural sanctuary right where you are! This book shows you how to create a backyard pond in your garden and how to attract and support local species. RHS How to Create a Wildlife Pond provides easy-to-follow steps on how to dig your own pond, line it, advice on which aquatic plants to plant, and how to make sure local wildlife can enter and exit the pond safely. This book will also give you advice on how to take care of your pond so that you’re able to enjoy the local animals, insects, and birds for years to come. You can expect to see blackbirds bathing in your pond, hedgehogs using it as a water source, and bats flying over at night to catch insects. This wonderful book is filled with photographs and illustrations that will make creating your own pond easy and fulfilling!
Download or read book Garden Pools Swimming Ponds written by Richard Weixler and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides advice on effectively using water features, including garden ponds and swimming ponds, in landscape architecture, and includes information on the design and construction of pools and ponds.
