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

Designing & building water features in your garden.

• A practical, easy-to-understand guide to adding both still (ponds) and moving (waterfalls and streams) water features to any garden. • Includes complete, easy-to-follow instructions on designing, establishing, and caring for a variety of eye-pleasing water projects. • More than 220 vivid photographs and illustrations, plus detailed instructions, make this guide a must-have for garden enthusiasts looking to plan and build a water feature. • Expert advice on selecting the right fish and plants for embellishing any backyard aquatic paradise. • Solution-based format will inspire you to confidently create water havens in your own yard.

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.

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.

Enhance a garden with the soothing sights and sounds of reflecting pools and other imaginative water elements. This volume provides all the information needed to build everything from small-scale fountains to inviting ponds and flowing waterfalls. The book includes step-by-step photographs, a practical guide to tools and materials, and recommendations for fish and plants. 235 photos. 100 illustrations.

"Pursues the concept of integrating water features into garden design. A group of stunning photographs enhances the text as it explores the history of water features in the gardens of diverse cultures....effectively juxtaposes images of the natural world with vignettes that show how elements such as water spouts, pools, ponds, and rills can lend refinement to garden settings. Blueprint-like drawings are interspersed to depict the unseen components and mechanical elements necessary to construct naturalistic streams, waterfalls, and both simple and more complex types of fountains....inspiring effort."--"Booklist."

Discusses how to build garden pools using fountains and waterfalls.

Collections of plans for contemporary pools, fountains, streams, and waterfalls.

Before starting your water feature, learn from these detailed case studies that depict actual gardens progressing from planning to planting, using only modest building skills.