Product Description

Lavishly illustrated with 150 color photographs, this highly visual guide teaches readers how to create exciting water gardens in containers for inside the home or outside. Using the book's step-by-step instructions, photos, and drawings, readers will learn how to construct, plant, stock, and maintain a water garden. Includes suggestions for the best water garden plants, fish, and

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #516210 in Books
• Published on: 1998-01-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 128 pages

Review
"'Container Water Gardens' by Phillip Swindells shows you how you don't need a big hole in the garden to have a water garden. This book shows how to grow aquatic plants in small containers, both outdoors and in." -- Sunday Patriot News, Harrisburg, PA, 12/12/99

From the Back Cover
It's easy to create soothing, exquisite water gardens anywhere!

In a garden, on a patio, on a high-rise balcony, or even indoors -- container water gardens bring the soothing sights and sounds of nature to any setting.

Using step-by-step photographs and instructions and a plant directory of more than 90 water garden varieties, you'll learn how to:

* Choose, install, and maintain pumps and fountains

* Create elegant designs and maintain healthy plantings

* Incorporate tropical fish into your display

* Care for your water garden year-round

* Build and decorate your own containers or use store-bought containers

Customer Reviews

clever ideas but missing some practical information
Lots of clever ideas for small water gardens, as well as helpful general information on appropriate plants, fish, etc. However, it would have been nice if the author had provided a list of suppliers, at least for the more esoteric items. I too would like to make a shishi-odoshi fountain, but haven't the first idea where to buy the shishi-odoshi that is the first item on the list of project supplies (!). Also, while each of the finished projects is nicely photographed it would have been a great help if there were more photographs or illustrations of more of the projects in the construction stage.

Quick and Easy Container Water Gardening
I was so excited to receive the book because I wanted to learn how to create wonderful water garden features. I ordered the book specifically to learn how to make the shishi-odoshi water feature. I was so disappointed to find that the book, which has great pictures,has very little information on how to do any of the pictured features. The book falls far short of my expectations. If I saw it in a book store, I would not buy it. It is a real disappointment that a noted horticulturalist, having the knowledge to help all of us novices, decidedly omits key information. This is not a quick and easy how to do book on water gardening. I can do much better watching Home and Garden Television. I wish I had my money back!

Lots of good ideas
If you long to add the calming elegance of water to your garden this author shows many clever ways to achieve it. I like the simplicity of some of the containers-a window box, strawberry jars, sinks, etc. I plan to try the classical bamboo shishi-odoshi.A helpful plant directory is included too. -Linda Fry Kenzle, author of Gathering:Using Simple Materials From the Garden and Nature