Reviews (4)

Water Storage by Art Ludwig
The book gives you lots of pertinent information about the pros and cons of water storage for any type of usage.Information is written in easy to understand terminology with lots of references and diagrams.Makes you aware of possible adverse situations and how to compensate for them.Great book for the novice as well as the seasoned individual.

Water Storage made Elegant
Thoughtful and comprehensive this book will guide you through water storage problems with the simplest and most elegant solutions.It will also guide you away from a multitude of mistakes.

Sounds Simple, And It Is, Once you have it explained
Most of us, in the United States at least, grew up where the supply of water was so simple. Your house was automatically connected to the city water mains when it was built and for a few dollars a month all the water you needed was supplied at the turn of a tap.
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Subjects:  1. Construction - Plumbing    2. Do-It-Yourself    3. Do-It-Yourself - Plumbing    4. House & Home    5. Reference   

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Most complete and detailed book for creating Ponds and Streams
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.
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Subjects:  1. Garden Design    2. Gardening    3. Gardening / Horticulture    4. Gardening/Plants    5. Outdoor & Recreational Areas - Pools, Water Gardens, Ponds    6. Ponds    7. Gardening / Garden Design    8. Water gardens, pools   

Subjects:  1. Design and construction    2. Do-It-Yourself    3. Do-It-Yourself - General    4. Fountains    5. Home Improvement / Construction    6. House & Home    7. Outdoor & Recreational Areas - Pools, Water Gardens, Ponds    8. Water gardens    9. Garden design & planning    10. Gardening / General   

Subjects:  1. Design and construction    2. Fountains    3. Gardening    4. Gardening / Horticulture    5. Gardening/Plants    6. Landscape    7. Landscape Design And Planting    8. Reference    9. Water gardens    10. Gardening / Reference    11. Water gardens, pools   

Subjects:  1. Gardening/Plants    2. Gardens    3. Landscape Architecture And Design    4. Landscape Horticulture    5. Landscape architecture    6. Water gardens    7. Water in landscape architectur    8. Water in landscape architecture    9. Gardening / General    10. Water gardens, pools   

Reviews (6)

There are better choices
In my opinion,this book is a very superficial overview of pond construction.A far better choice is "Ortho's All About Building Waterfalls, Ponds, and Streams", for the same price [or slightly cheaper]."Ortho's" covers the topic much more thoroughly than this "complete guide".

Good fundamentals.
Excellent fundamental instructions for ponds and waterfalls.If you are doing a stream also, you might want to consult another title or two on the same subject. You will also need some more education on plants for your pond.But for basic pond and waterfall, this is the best I have read.
Only pictures
If you are a beginer in pond building and you need everything explained to details, do not buy this book. I bought it and it's just not good. You can read it under a hour and you'll see only pictures with nothing on them. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Design and construction    2. Garden Design    3. Gardening    4. Gardening/Plants    5. General    6. Home Improvement / Construction    7. Landscape    8. Reference    9. Water gardens   

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Fairly detailed
This book isnt overly long and filled with over the top water gardening items most people cant afford. The applications discussed a common and to the point. The
Ortho's Building Ponds
Gives how to, how much, where and why.Probably the best pond construction book I bought.

Great Teaching Tool
Great book to learn about building water gardens.Excellent resource and I would highly recommend it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Amateurs' manuals    2. Design and construction    3. Flowers - General    4. Garden Design    5. Gardening    6. Gardening / Horticulture    7. Gardening/Plants    8. Handbooks, manuals, etc    9. Outdoor & Recreational Areas - Pools, Water Gardens, Ponds    10. Ponds    11. Water gardens    12. Water in landscape architecture    13. Gardening / Garden Design    14. Water gardens, pools    15. water   

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Provides color photos & directions for a range of fountains
Paris Mannion's Create Your Own Tabletop Fountains (1-58180-103-3, $24.99) provides a fine guide to creating the fountains which have become so popular in hardware and houseware stores. From supplies and materials to crafting 15 selected fountains using shells to pots, this provides color photos and directions for a range of fountains.

Create Your Own Tabletop Fountain
Wow! Lots of great info and imaginative projects in gorgeous color layout.The feng shui cures, tips on hiding the cord, and how to drill slate were particularly helpful to me. I got a noisy pump, and this book tells ways to make it operate quietly!It answered all my questions on fountain plants, how to turn the fountain off and on without getting under the couch, where to get decorating accents, and how to water seal and patch clay pots. Awesome fountains!
Icompared several fountain making books, and found this one to have the most complete information and the best instructions. The step by step photos are better than the drawn diagrams found in other books, because they tell the exact sequence of events in building a tabletop fountain. I also found this book to have the most useable projects ( I was not interested in outdoor fountains and the plumbing challenges inherent in making them). I have already made 3 awesome fountains, the most ambitious being the copper leaf fountain, which sounds like music and drowns out the noise of traffic that I used to hear in my living room. I had no trouble putting it together following the photos and directions. When it splashed too much, I found the remedy in the book, too. The author's lists are amusing and informative (example: 10 ways to hide the cord, how to quiet noisy pumps, and 10 ways to know you need "fountains anonymous") .The book describes a fountain as an "oasis connecting you to nature." That pretty much sums up my feeling when I go home after a busy day and hear throughout my house the endless sound of falling water.Because the projects vary in difficulty,I would highly recommend this book, no matter how much fountain building experience you've had. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Crafts & Hobbies    2. Crafts / Hobbies    3. Decorating    4. Decorating - General    5. Hobbies/Crafts    6. Tabletop fountains    7. Woodwork - General    8. Handicrafts    9. Home furnishing & decoration    10. Parties   

Editorial Review

Few elements are as ubiquitous or as essential as water, or as appealing for the soothing sights and sounds with which it enhances our environment. Fountains are the ideal way to incorporate water's magic into our homes and gardens, and the fountain maker becomes something of an illusionist, striving emulate nature and to conceal the mechanics that make the perpetual flow of water possible.Read more

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Fountain magic
A truely awesome book.I came upon it when I looked through Angel Lee's review list and ordered it.I am indebted to her!I have been making my own fountains since I bought my 1st home 6 years ago, and wanted new ideas. These are wonderful.Some of the simpler dish-type gardens will makelovely Christmas gifts, and I look forward to starting them.For themore adventurous, there aremore complex and larger fountains/ponds, alltruely picturesque, which would be great fun for anyone with a reasonablesized yard.A friend has created one on his terraced front lawn, and itcaptures the attention of by passers, making his neighborhood The Place tovisit of late. For the truely enthused, there are directions forcasting subjects in ceramics, for designing cement fountains or basins, andeven for making masks of living persons.Although many items can becollected from the "saved" materials everyone seems to store awayin garages or from yard and garage sales, those like pumps, tubing, andother hardware items can be found at nurseries and hardward stores. Thereis also a very useful list of addresses where other types of supplies maybe found. I can hardly wait to get started!Thanks again Angel.

Build a wide variety of impressive fountains with ease
This is a wonderful book for constructing beautiful & impressive looking fountains. The fountains here are unexpectedly easy to construct & cost far less than commercial ones. It is filled with ideas that allow the maker to add his own unique touch. Great book
I knew the minute I saw the cover of Simple Fountains for Indoors and Outdoors that it was exactly what I was looking for. The cover photograph is an appealing table fountain. Inside the book is a well thought out plandesigned to help the novice achieve success making tabletop or otherindoor/outdoor fountains.Read more

Subjects:  1. Decorating    2. Decorating - General    3. Design and construction    4. Feng Shui    5. Fountains    6. Home Improvement / Construction    7. House & Home    8. Outdoor & Recreational Areas - General    9. Water gardens    10. Water in landscape architectur    11. Water in landscape architecture    12. Home & House Maintenance    13. House & Home / Decorating   

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Strongly recommended for anyone searching for an all-inclusive instructional guide to pond building
Tim Watson draws upon more than 25 years of experience and expertise building ponds and developing wetlands in Landscaping Earth Ponds: The Complete Guide. Here is a informative, step-by-step, profusely illustrated reference for creating a more lively and beautifying diverse landscapes and home-area garden areas with ponds. Providing "user friendly" information on how ponds work to enhance a landscape, create recreational opportunities, help the environment, and increase property values, Landscaping Earth Ponds offers a complete and readily accessible account of a variety of methods and techniques to employ in the creation of a pond. An important addition to any personal, professional, or community library reference collection, Landscaping Earth Ponds is very strongly recommended for anyone searching for an all-inclusive instructional guide to pond building and encouraging natural beauty through the development of a customized pond appropriate to the rest of the landscaping environment.
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Subjects:  1. Amateurs' manuals    2. Design and construction    3. Gardening    4. Gardening / Horticulture    5. Gardening/Plants    6. Landscape    7. Landscape architecture    8. Ponds    9. Water-supply, Rural    10. Garden design & planning    11. Water gardens, pools   

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Earth Ponds: The Country Pond Maker's Guide to Building, Maintenance and Restoration
i was looking for a book to help me design and build a pond, this book was more of a story, with a few helpful idea's.

Earth Ponds
I was looking for more techinical and not so wordy reading.It was interesting reading in a Walden's Pond sort of way.I want to build a pond myself and have the equipment to do it.But wanted to know How the big boys do it.

Lots of Prose......No nuts and bolts.
All those pages, all those words............yet if you are looking to satiate an appetite for information that will allow the building and managing of a pond...you will go hungry.Read more

Subjects:  1. Amateurs' manuals    2. Gardening / Horticulture    3. Handbooks, manuals, etc    4. Lakes & Ponds    5. Nature/Ecology    6. Ponds    7. Water Supply    8. Water Supply And Treatment    9. Water-supply, Rural    10. DIY    11. Garden design & planning   

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Packed with ideas for building the right type of pond, then maintaining it
From a history of fountains and garden fountain design to installation procedures and creating auxiliary streams and water courses, The Super Simple Guide To Waterfalls & Fountains For Your Garden Pond comes packed with ideas for building the right type of pond, then maintaining it. The inclusion of plenty of photos and drawings and step-by-step review of options makes for an exceptionally easy translation from book to finished project.
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Subjects:  1. Fountains    2. Garden Design    3. Gardening    4. Landscape    5. Pets    6. Ponds    7. Water gardens    8. Water gardens, pools   

Editorial Review

Fountains have become increasingly popular home-decor accents, but they can be somewhat pricey. Fortunately, many types are not very difficult to build, and can be made with lots of found materials and garden-center water pumps. Dawn Cusick's directions are good and her ideas relatively easy to duplicate. Her most successful designs are those that direct water to mimic nature by trickling over rocks and shells, or to flow through water-resistant items like brass vases, ceramic faces, or terra-cotta pots. Less successful are those that try to be too clever, such as the gift package fountain, whereby the water pouring over a stack of gift-wrapped boxes inspires nothing so much as the urge to grab a sponge to mop up the spill, or the office desk fountain, in which water cascades down a ladder of CDs set inside an empty computer monitor. And the lack of a source list may prove a hindrance to some, though most of the more specialized materials are readily available at home centers and garden-supply stores. Dorcas Adkins's Read more

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Average Book on Fountains
I purchased this book in the hope of learning more about how tabletop fountains were built. The photo's are very pretty and the diagrams are drawn very well. However, there are several mistakes in the book beginning with minor spelling to mislabeling of at least 1 project.
Tabletop Fountains: 40 Easyand Great-Looking Projects to M
Don't waste your money on this book.Most of the fountains displayed are either very tacky or have very minimal water action. I was very disappointed with this book.

Great Book
This was a great book. I've already made my first fountain. Good steps to follow to make fountains. I plan to make more ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Crafts & Hobbies    2. Crafts / Hobbies    3. Do-It-Yourself - General    4. General    5. Hobbies/Crafts    6. Tabletop fountains    7. Handicrafts    8. Home furnishing & decoration   

Subjects:  1. Agriculture - General    2. Garden Design    3. Gardening    4. Gardening / Horticulture    5. Gardening/Plants    6. Landscape    7. Ponds    8. Fishes & aquaria    9. Pets / General    10. Water gardens, pools   

Reviews (5)

Many pretty pictures and neat ideas, but not enough info
This book is well illustrated and is a great "idea book" for people who want to see the many types of container water garden possibilities. There are also several useful tips that make the book worthwhile. Contents are: 1. Basics, 2. Tub gardens, 3. Dish and indoor gardens, 4. Hanging baskets, 5. Planters & window boxes, 6. Creative containers, 7. Patio ponds, 8. Fountains, statuary & wall containers, 9. Paludariums (semi-aquatic glass tank gardens that can house plants & pets), 10. Lotus, 11. Carnivorous plants. Who knew there were so many types of water container gardens? Several chapters have step-by-step pictures for setting up the containers and placing fixtures and plants. Nice but no detail.
This book illustrates nice ideas but falls short in details. Very basic.

Another plus for container gardening
I have a smaller suburban yard and every corner is utilized.Though envious of a friend with an in-ground pond and waterfall, I did not want to dig up exsisting shrubs and perennials to satisfy my yen for water.SinceI already grow vegetables, herbs, ornamental grasses and perennials incontainers, I thought why not a water garden.This book showed me what Icould do with one of my empty oak barrels.I had a lovely mini pond withrunning water.I added 3 fish, water plants, and bought some toad tadpolesfrom a nearby garden centre.I liked it so much I'm going to do somesmaller containers as well as a couple of glazed pots with water lilys. The only thing is to overwinter water plants you need a small indooraquarium with grow lights, or a helpful friend with a pond.Enjoy andexperiment! P.S. Although the toads might not be able to breed in my yard,for the rest of the summer the little toadlets were happily hopping aroundin my yard eating bugs. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Container    2. Gardening / Horticulture    3. Gardening/Plants    4. Techniques    5. Container gardening    6. Gardening / Container    7. NATURE - NATURE   

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Pictures are good but missing details
After readign the other reviews I purchased this book.I am very disappointed.I had a lot of questions and this book failed to answer them.It is not very detailed or complete. I found the book "Waterfalls, Ponds and Streams" to be much more detailed and complete.It provides much better quidance in building a pond and stream.

All the reader needs to know about adding a water feature to one's garden
Water Gardens: Pools, Streams & Fountains Is A Better Homes And Gardens how-to manual packed with all the reader needs to know about adding a water feature to one's garden. Chapters cover how to design and plan a water feature, including choosing the right materials and arranging a proper water source, electrical source, and usage of pumps; constructing an indoor or outdoor water garden; enhancing a water garden with seating, paths, decks, lighting, or other features; maintaining a water garden; ideal plants and animals for a water garden, and much more. Methodical instructions and full-color photographs on every page make Water Gardens simplicity itself to use. Highly recommended for anyone interested in adding a water garden to their home.
All the reader needs to know about adding a water feature to one's garden
Water Gardens: Pools, Streams & Fountains Is A Better Homes And Gardens how-to manual packed with all the reader needs to know about adding a water feature to one's garden. Chapters cover how to design and plan a water feature, including choosing the right materials and arranging a proper water source, electrical source, and usage of pumps; constructing an indoor or outdoor water garden; enhancing a water garden with seating, paths, decks, lighting, or other features; maintaining a water garden; ideal plants and animals for a water garden, and much more. Methodical instructions and full-color photographs on every page make Water Gardens simplicity itself to use. Highly recommended for anyone interested in adding a water garden to their home.
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Subjects:  1. Garden Design    2. Gardening    3. Gardening / Horticulture    4. Gardening/Plants    5. Home Gardening    6. Landscape    7. Outdoor & Recreational Areas - Pools, Water Gardens, Ponds    8. Ponds    9. Gardening / Garden Design    10. Water gardens, pools   

Subjects:  1. Fish & Aquariums    2. NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS    3. Pets    4. Fishes & aquaria    5. Water gardens, pools   

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Seasons at Eagle Pond
If you tend to wake up in the middle of the night to worry, this book will soothe your mind. Donald Hall writes beautifully about his life in New Hampshire in a house and a town he clearly loves. He will remind you ofbeauties in your own life -the sound of a snow plow clearing the roads atnight, remembering your grandparents' house, gazing at a pond with mistrising from it. This may sound like the book is too sentimental - butactually it is just peaceful.The woodcut illustrations are also a pleasure.

This book is a treasure...
Every word of this work of prose is chiseled to perfection by Donald Hall, one of America's most gifted poets.This slight volume is among the most treasured in my personal library. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1928-    2. 20th century    3. Biography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Country life    6. Farm life    7. Hall, Donald - Poems & Criticism    8. Hall, Donald,    9. Homes and haunts    10. Intellectual life    11. Literature - Classics / Criticism    12. New Hampshire    13. Poets, American    14. Seasons    15. Hall, Donald    16. Nature / Seasons    17. Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -   

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A lively account of the pond from early to modern times
Some 700,000 people visit Walden Pond annually and others journey to Walden mentally in contemplating of the region Henry David Thoreau made famous. It's surprising, therefore, to note that this is the first history of Walden Pond to appear in over 150 years, providing a lively account of the pond from early to modern times. W. Barksdale Maynard teaches architectural history at Johns Hopkins University and one might anticipate from this a dry perspective: not so. Walden Pond captures the social, political and conservation issues revolving around Waden over the decades.

A fascinating history of Walden Pond
For years to come, historians and literary scholars will know this book as the definitive history of Walden Pond.But it's also a delightful read.Combining impeccable scholarship with skillful writing, Maynard brings Walden Pond's storied history to life, from Thoreau's first visit as a little boy to today's preservation battles."Walden Pond: A History" is a brilliant book.

AN AMAZING BOOK
Walden Pond:A History has received positive reviews during its first month of release.Kirkus gave it a coveted ?star.?Also, the ecologist Ed Schofield has written the following five-star review on a national bookstore website: ?AN AMAZING BOOK.I know a good deal about Walden Pond and Walden Woods as a result of many years of personal research.I never thought that anyone would be able to bring together, between the covers of one book, the astonishing amount of information Barksdale Maynard has compiled and integrated in this scrupulously researched and well written book.He has brought together facts from all sorts of sources: newspapers and magazines, books, unpublished letters and diaries, eyewitness interviews, videos, radio broadcasts, maps, and so forth.There are fifty pages of endnotes and bibliography - over 500 of each.I am in awe at what he has been able to do. (Wish I could have done it!)Anyone interested in historic preservation,nature conservation, human nature, grassroots activism, literature, or (most important) Thoreau and Walden itself will enjoy this book.It has lots of information, yet it reads easily and has a good ?story line?: how and why Walden has become the symbol it is and what people have done to protect it.The hero of heroes is Don Henley of The Eagles.There are lots of other people - heroes, villains, oddballs, famous people (Emerson, the Alcotts, John Muir, Walt Whitman, the Kennedys, the Clintons, and many others).I recommend the book highly.? ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1817-1862    2. Authors, American    3. History    4. History - U.S.    5. History: American    6. Homes and haunts    7. Lakes & Ponds    8. Massachusetts    9. Middlesex County    10. Thoreau, Henry David,    11. United States - General    12. United States - State & Local - New England    13. Walden Pond (Middlesex County,    14. Walden Pond (Middlesex County, Mass.)    15. Walden Woods    16. Conservation of the environment    17. History / United States / General    18. History, American | Cultural    19. NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS    20. Places & peoples: general interest    21. Social history   

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Earth Ponds
This is meant as a companion for his other book on ponds but does a very nice job by itself. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Amateurs' manuals    2. Architecture    3. Design and construction    4. Gardening    5. Gardening/Plants    6. General    7. Landscape    8. Ponds    9. Water-supply, Rural    10. Water gardens, pools