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.
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.