Product Description

From a formal fountain to a pebble pool, this book offers many varied designs and practical advice on building a water feature. The projects employ basic construction skills and offer designs which can be adapted to suit different gardens, with solutions for the problem of limited space.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1413128 in Books
• Published on: 1998-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 128 pages

From Booklist
Clarke offers 14 step-by-step projects to design formal and informal pools, moving and still-water features, stone and pebble features (such as a millstone bubble fountain and a pebble pond), wall fountains and water spouts, splash fountains, and container water gardens. Clarke advises readers on what plants are best suited to water, and includes a catalog divided into deep-water plants, waterlilies, submerged plants, floating plants, marginal plants, and moisture-loving plants. She also discusses the various styles of small water gardens and the added feature of lighting. Clarke gives data on preformed and flexible liners, on pumps and electricity, and on maintenance. The book is illustrated throughout with color photographs and line drawings. George Cohen

About the Author
Ethne Clarke is known internationally as one of the foremost writers and lectures on garden history, design and planting. She is the author of the award winning Art of the Kitchen Garden. Born and raised in the United States, she lived and gardened in central Norfolk for many years. She is an associate of the Institute of Horticulture and a committee member of the British Guild of Garden Writers.

Customer Reviews

Good Ideas For Small Spaces
This book has excellent pictures expressing the use of water features for small spaces. Gives good examples of "how to's" and diagrams of putting your water feature together. One of the best I have found on this subject so far.

Great ideas!
This is my favorite kind of garden book--ideal for leafing through and picking up ideas. The pictures are lovely, and while some of the projects aren't practical for my own garden, they're great for daydreaming over. All the projects provide step by step instructions for accomplishing small fountains and water features, are really helpful and detailed down to the tools needed. Now, if I could just find a huge ceramic pot on sale, screw up my nerve and drill...