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.

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.

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.

“Focuses on the vastly different forms available, with emphasis on the sensual dimension of water as a rill, cascade, or reflecting pool...takes the time to delve into the pleasures of water’s sound, placement, and movement before getting into practical considerations of siting, safety, and...electricity. Beautiful photographs of ponds, pools, and fountains are interspersed throughout....The designs provide something for everyone.”—Horticulture.

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

Dip into this wealth of inspirational ideas for everything from tiny pebble pools to more elaborate fish ponds, rills, and steps. Lush photographs accompany practical information on good design and sound construction. There's guidance on style and siting, and on plants that thrive in the pond, on its edge, and in the surrounding areas. "Plus": "Case histories" of actual water gardens and vital advice on aeration, water purification, and pump care.

"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

Designer Dorcas Adkins shares her simple techniques for crafting 20 creative fountains, from a small tabletop fountain put together without a single tool to a dramatic outdoor spouting wall fountain. There are designs to fit all styles of home design and garden settings. Simple Fountains is a complete workshop in a book. Adkins covers everything you need to know about materials, supplies, and assembly, whether you choose to work with wood, stones, ceramic, or other materials. No previous building experience is required.

• 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.