Outdoor Water Features: 16 Easy-to-Build Projects For Your Yard and Garden
Having backyard water fountains is a great way to add special character to it. You can find all kinds of water features, starting with the love birds, to the dolphins, even the classic cupid fountains are still in style.
Outdoor Water Features: 16 Easy-to-Build Projects For Your Yard and Garden
No one can deny the power and attraction of water features. And it’s never been easier for gardeners to add the sparkle and serenity of water to their own landscapes. Garden centers and flower shows throughout North America provide both the tools and the inspiration; this book will give readers the know-how.
Projects range from simple to more advanced. Readers can choose among a classic wall-mounted fountain spout, a traditional or contemporary cascade and garden pond, an authentic Japanese-style bamboo water pump, witty water sculptures, and more. With 16 projects in all, this book has something to offer all tastes, budgets, and abilities.
Each project is accompanied by clear, step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow instructions, plus helpful tips and techniques. Also included is a list of tools and materials. Whether readers imagine a container bog garden, a romantic millstone fountain, or a cascade, this book will help them make it a reality.
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After you've taken the time to make a beautiful garden, you certainly have the desire to make the very best use of it. The installation of an Outdoor Water Fountain is exactly the right thing to ensure that you will be able to transform any garden into an exceptional getaway. With the right ambience in the garden, the twittering of birds, and also the tinkling of the water from the Outdoor Water Fountain, you are sure to find yourself along with your loved ones enjoying more and more time in your garden.
Backyard Water Fountain Review by Al the Pal for Outdoor Water Features: 16 Easy-to-Build Projects For Your Yard and Garden
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Do you like the refreshing sound of lemonade trickling into a glass, only you wish it would last longer? The relaxing sound of running water is refreshing and also attracts wildlife. This book has 16 projects you can build, most quite easily, with simple, readily available materials that will add sound and visual interest to your yard. The book has information about tools, materials and plants, well illustrated with photographs and watercolor drawings. There are even maintenance tips. Some of the projects are as small as container fountains and some as large as ponds. They even discuss “bog gardening.” Most of the designs fall in the small to medium size range.Among the more interesting projects is a “Japanese Deer Scarer” which is an animated bamboo fixture that beats on a rock while dumping water. Also unique is a “Wine Bottle Spray Fountain.” (We are avidly gathering the materials for this one as I write.) There are several that utilize sheet copper parts and one made from glass bricks.There are lots of good tips on design that you can use for your own variations. If you are only going to buy one book on outdoor water features, get this one. It is sure to be an inspiration for your next weekend “water” project.
Backyard Water Fountain Review by Greg Speichert for Outdoor Water Features: 16 Easy-to-Build Projects For Your Yard and Garden
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For anyone wanting to learn how to add water to their yard, this is the book to get. I loved it because the projects are easy to follow and there aren’t any steps that you will not be able to do.
The information at the front of the book lays out a good foundation for the projects that you will find throughout the book. From everything such as designing, planning and the tools you will need, to maintenance and the many projects; this book will lead the path to having the calming effect of water in your yard.
The illustrations and photography just add to how helpful and very informative this book really is. This book would make a great gift for any gardener.
Backyard Water Fountain Review by capebabs for Outdoor Water Features: 16 Easy-to-Build Projects For Your Yard and Garden
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This book has some good information, great design ideas,
and beautiful pictures. My pond is up and running, and
the fishies and frogs and water lillies are VERY Happy.
Backyard Water Fountain Review by Ron M for Outdoor Water Features: 16 Easy-to-Build Projects For Your Yard and Garden
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I’m looking to add water features to my yard, and I bought this book because it sounded interesting and had good reviews. I guess I should buy books from a brick & mortar store where I can look at them first! I was extremely disappointed with this book. Of the 16 water projects in this book, there are only 2 that I remotely like. This may be my personal taste … when thinking about water features I am looking for something simple and elegant that looks natural and fits into the surroundings. One of the 16 projects was a fountain made from marbles. Another was simply putting a bog plant into a pot and sticking that in a bowl containing water. Another reviewer here liked the wine-bottle fountain, but it was not to my taste. The “look inside” feature doesn’t show the right pages, but if you look at the back cover of this book, you can see a few examples of the fountains. In my opinion, these are some of the better ones in the book, but do not match up with my idea of a water feature. I guess I’ll keep looking.
Backyard Water Fountain Review by Valerie Adolph for Outdoor Water Features: 16 Easy-to-Build Projects For Your Yard and Garden
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This a basic slim book that does just what the writers promise. They show the novice gardener how to make 16 water features. There are assorted fountains, including a romantic fountain, bell fountain, perpetual water tap, a cascade and a glass waterfall. There is a still pond, a wall waterspout a cascade and a natural pond. It’s fairly standard stuff but there are, after all, only so many ways to present simple how-to-do-it water feature information.There are useful sections on tools, materials and pumps, and you’ll find plenty of illustrations, including cross-sections of the construction project.There is no bibliography, just a reading list that is really tacky because it only lists other books published by the same publisher. Unless you’re new to gardening I’d stay away from books published by Storey. There is nothing basically wrong with them, but they lack the depth, originality and insight that the more experienced gardener generally seeks.