Garden Pools, Fountains and Watercourses (Black & Decker Outdoor Home)

One of the most exciting and popular home improvement and gardening trends comes alive in this full-color, activity-filled book. In clear, colorful pictures and easy-to-understand text, it features every construction technique, planting instruction, and care need for building backyard garden pools, ponds, fountains, streams, waterfalls, and other water features. Each project is summarized in a detailed "recipe" list that provides beginners and intermediate gardeners a clear and concise key to building their water garden, with references to skill, equipment, and material lists, step-by-step instructions depicting technique, and a host of other useful features. This fabulous book will dazzle you with the following features: **Includes detailed encyclopedia of the 85 most popular aquatic plants, USDA plant hardiness maps, important on-line web resources, and an easy-to-use index. **Chapters feature: Planning, Design, Installation, Construction, Planting, and Care of Water Gardens. **Features 25 step-by-step projects, such as a natural stream waterfall feature and a marsh-bog garden, with photographs and detailed instructions, more than any comparable book. **It contains more than 300 full-color photographs and clear illustrations, with colorful pictures on every page. **Offers practical instruction for every North American Garden - U.S.A., Canada, and Mexico - with complete metric conversions and advice. Also applicable to Australia, New Zealand, England, and South Africa.