All About Building Waterfalls, Ponds, and Streams (Ortho’s All About Gardening)
Installing backyard water fountains is a fantastic way to add special character to it. There are all types of water fountains, from the love birds, to the dolphins, even the classic cupid fountains are still in style.
All About Building Waterfalls, Ponds, and Streams (Ortho’s All About Gardening)
- ISBN13: 9780897215145
- Condition: New
- Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed
• 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.
Rating: 
(out of 7 reviews)
A Guide To Backyard Fish Pond
Water gardens and backyard ponds are for butterflies,
frogs, birds, fish, you, and the whole family. These
ponds may be small, may even be no larger than 3 to 4
feet in diameter. These may be built in patio
containers and barrels. Drawing wildlife in your
backyard may be done by adding water gardens and
ponds. These will not only provide enjoyment and
interest but also a natural and relaxing environment
as well.
A fish pond in your backyard may become the focal
point of your backyard conversation. So spice it up
with this tips and techniques.
Download “A Guide To Backyard Fish Pond” Now!
List Price: $ 2.99
Price:
After you've taken made the effort to make an attractive garden, you definitely intend to make the best use of it. The addition of an Outdoor Water Fountain is exactly the right thing to ensure that you will be able to transform any garden into an exotic hideaway. With the right mood in the garden, the tweeting of birds, along with the tinkling of the water in the Outdoor Water Fountain, you're guaranteed to find yourself along with your family spending much more time outside.
Review by Robert D. Steele for All About Building Waterfalls, Ponds, and Streams (Ortho’s All About Gardening)
Rating:
I bought this at Home Depot, which also offers a “materials” service from the same help desk in each store that will help design a deck and print out all the needed materials.
This offering appears to be “best in class.” I found the following extremely helpful:
1) Up front discussion of the hardest part, creating a balanced ecosystem with balanced chemistry. If you do nothing else, let county water sit in a tub overnight to dissipate the cholorine, before putting it into a live environment.
2) Complete coverage (chapter 3) on materials and equipment. This is a lot easier than most might think, but it *does* require hard work if you get much above a pre-fabricated form. Rocks are *heavy* and you need a LOT of them–three times as many as you might think.
3) Superb photographs and drawings, checklists, and at the end, a list of water resources.
I am struck by how many people seem to be turning not only to waterfalls, but to full-up water gardens. While perhaps difficult to support in drought conditions, my wife and I have had a small pond for years and now want to move up to a waterfall and 4 times larger pond, and this is the book that has made that possible.
If you are discouraged or do not feel up to the challenge, I do recommend a very simple water feature, just a wash-tup and one of those spouting lion heads, or the bamboo trio. For under $100, you can get a water feature that is ready to go and plugs in, and for under $75 you can get a world class wind-chime. Add an outdoor clay fire pot with chimney, and you have the three key ingredients: water, wind, and fire.
Review by G. W. Powell for All About Building Waterfalls, Ponds, and Streams (Ortho’s All About Gardening)
Rating:
Good book. Pictures are good and the descriptions and details from the creation of Ponds, Streams and Waterfalls is the most complete of all the books that I have purchased or read. It could do a little better job of describing how to integrate a Bog Garden with a Pond. I still have questions about that.
Overall the best of the breed.
Review by Charles Thomas Polk for All About Building Waterfalls, Ponds, and Streams (Ortho’s All About Gardening)
Rating:
I enjoyed this book; it fit my skill level which I would describe as intermediate. I have not had a pond, but I have kept a 110 gallon indoor aquarium for about twenty years. The information is laid out in an organized fashion with both color photos and b/w sketches. Describes pond design, layout, construction (with a few safety tips), plants, fish (but not detailed information for fish keeping), filters, maintenance and has many color photos.
Review by L. Schwab for All About Building Waterfalls, Ponds, and Streams (Ortho’s All About Gardening)
Rating:
I liked the idea pictures in this book, but ultimately the “how-to’s” left me wanting for more. I didn’t feel it went into enough detail of things such as, how to make the rocks look natural and how to place them on the rubber liner so they don’t wash away immediately. A good idea book, though.
Review by Michael G. Camelo Sr. for All About Building Waterfalls, Ponds, and Streams (Ortho’s All About Gardening)
Rating:
THIS IS THE BOOK YOU NEED IF YOU ARE GOING TO CONSTRUCT A WATERFALL ETC. PACKED FULL OF USEFUL INFORMATION. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED