Backyard Water Gardens: How to Build, Plant & Maintain Ponds, Streams & Fountains Paperback – April 8, 2013

Water Lilly garden ponds is the dream for my yard. This book has given me so many ideas and the inspiration is flowing. Great value, good information, roadmap to a beautiful project.

This pond book is well illustrated and makes concepts that are new to be, somewhat understandable. The somewhat is my problem rather that that of the author. I have two other similar books which are not as basic. And although this is basic, I am certain that it is a profitable read for others.

Backyard Waster Gardens gives the basic information quite well. It allows the reader to learn and begin to plan with the details presented.Nice pictures, plus the Resource and Sources at the end lead the reader to making the dream of a water feature a reality.

I can't imagine a topic on water gardens that this book doesn't cover. That is to say, this book covers it all. The diagrams are good, too. While some books I've checked out in the library focus on design, this book focuses on the mechanics of a garden. It covers design, too.

Will probably stop you making any seriously bad mistakes, but the coverage is very shallow. For example, the section on fish only lists two types.

I wish I had had this book when I started the pond. I doubt if I would have needed any others. I borrowed the book from the library first. I told my wife if I could get my own copy I would be able to get rid of all the other "pond" books, so as she was in a de-cluttering mode, she found it!

Was a gift, it has all much information. Great gift he reads it every time he wants to know something about his pond. There is information for every season.

This book is very specifically instructional. It's very thorough. I highly recommend it.