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WATER GARDENING IDEA BOOK: HOW TO BUILD, PLANT, AND MAINTAIN PONDS, FOUNTAINS, AND BASINS

Author: Peter Bisset

Paperback

139 pages

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Learn how to transform an ordinary backyard garden into a true showpiece. Originally published in 1924, Peter Bisset shares with readers timeless advice and tips for creating a variety of water gardens. After experiencing one, it’s easy to see why these gardens hold such appeal; these splashing fountains and ponds make hot days seem cooler, and they also attract birds and butterflies to your backyard. Even tiny tabletop fountains offer soothing sounds to drown out a busy street or a noisy neighbor.

The Water Gardening Idea Book gives in full detail all the practical information necessary for the selection, grouping, and successful cultivation of aquatic and other plants required in the making of a water garden and its surroundings. It’s perfect for both amateurs and those with green thumbs looking to take their gardens to the next level. Readers will enjoy projects of varying difficulty, starting with simple container gardens and advancing to large estate or park fountains and ponds. Whether you’re interested in creating a casual pond or a formal fountain, with The Water Gardening Idea Book, you’ll be able to create them with confidence.

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William Daniel Cooper
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Very little about backyard pond building unless you are fabulously wealthy and planning you estate garden pond additionally it is predominately about pond plants that are non native to the North America, many of them invasive. This book originally published in 1924 reflects and elitist attitude towards natural balance and suggests killing native birds that might eat INVASIVE Koi Fish babies

I live in Oakland [northern] California and our city lots average 5,000 sq ft I want to build a small pond with a waterfall in my backyard about 64 sq ft that is made with a pond liner w/a submersible pump surrounded by and growing in the water California native plants, I am looking to add and/or attract California wildlife frogs, fish, turtles , birds, bats, insects etc..Many of these species [except fish] the book says to eradicate