Water Gardens & Ponds Books

Water Storage: Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers, and Ponds for Domestic Supply, Fire and Emergency Use--Includes How to Make Ferrocement Water Tanks

Art Ludwig

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 14 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Read the book, Build the tank 5 out of 5 stars.
10 of 11 people found this review helpful.

I Built a 10,000 Gal tank straight out of this book for US$ 1,500.
It looks good & it doesn't leak.
What more can you ask for ?

very excellent detailed book 5 out of 5 stars.
7 of 9 people found this review helpful.

This book is well written and complete. I feel that after reading this book I can safely capture rainwater and I know all the details to think about when designing our system, specific reasons to place pipes etc in specific places ... an excellent detailed referrence book and enjoyable read; I read the entire book and enjoyed it. If you are seriously considering to have a rainwater catchment system this is a must read.

Water Storage: Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers, and Ponds for Domestic Supply, Fire and Emergency Use--Includes How to Make Ferrocemen 4 out of 5 stars.
2 of 4 people found this review helpful.

This book can help you for how to planning the different water systems in rural and urban areas, the best is how to make ferrocement water tanks.

Editorial Review:

A do-it-yourself guide to designing, building, and maintaining water tanks, cisterns and ponds, and sustainably managing groundwater storage. It will help you with your independent water system, fire protection, and disaster preparedness, at low cost and using principles of ecological design. Includes building instructions for several styles of ferro cement water tanks.

Smart Guide: Ponds & Fountains: Step-by-Step Projects (Smart Guide)

Editors of Creative Homeowner

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

A water garden, pond, or fountain is today's sought-after companion to almost any backyard landscaping project. Whether you are deciding on the type of pond that best suits your wants and needs or trying to decide whether a stream or a waterfall fits better into your landscape, Smart Guide: Ponds & Fountains has it all. Packed with detailed full-color illustrations, this guide will help you plan, build, and maintain your pond or fountain with step-by-step do-it-yourself sequences and easy-to-understand directions. Chapters cover everything from plant and fish selection to tips on choosing a spray or statuary fountain, how to install pond shells, digging out a watercourse, and even adding accents such as bridges and stepping-stones to your backyard. For those of you who cannot wait to get started in the spring and want to show off your creativity, Smart Guide: Ponds & Fountains will not only help your project take off but will instill confidence to the finish.

More than 175 full-color illustrations on everything from ponds and fountains to streams and waterfalls

Over 40 color photographs

Helpful information on water quality and testing, fish and plant selection, care, and maintenance

How to bring a stream or waterfall into your backyard the easy way

Advice for installing a pond shell liner

Tips on installing flexible pond liners of any size, on any kind of terrain

Softcover, 80 pages, Published 2002

Earth Ponds: The Country Pond Maker's Guide to Building, Maintenance and Restoration

Tim Matson

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Earth Ponds 3 out of 5 stars.
14 of 14 people found this review helpful.

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.

Earth Ponds: The Country Pond Maker's Guide to Building, Maintenance and Restoration 2 out of 5 stars.
7 of 8 people found this review helpful.

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.

Ponds 4 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This book is applies to northern ponds more than southern ponds. We do not ice over nor do we put trout in our ponds because of the warm waters. It is a good book for what it applies to.

Serves a Purpose 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This is a lovely, dreamy little book with some great black and white photos. It's perfect reading for a winter's night or for fostering fantasies. It's also a pretty good place to start before you call the county agent or start knocking on the doors of pond-owning neighbors.
It's perfectly true that some of Matson's writing is way over the top ("I wake up from a nightmare of valkyries swooping down out of the sun") and the illustrations are not enough to talk you through the whole process, but this could be the book that gets you started and that's worth quite a bit.

Editorial Review:

There is nothing like a pond! What else can simultaneously increase your aesthetic pleasure, offer recreational opportunities, help the environment, and increase the value of your land? This is the recognized standard on ponds, now expanded to include a comprehensive guide to living happily with your completed pond and keeping it perpetually healthy. Here is everything you need to know about planning, digging, sculpting, and maintaining your pond.

Build a Pond for Food & Fun: Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-19

D. J. Young

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Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

Earth Ponds A to Z: An Illustrated Encyclopedia

Tim Matson

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Building a Pond 4 out of 5 stars.
12 of 14 people found this review helpful.

I recently bought 11 acres in East Texas and this book is very instermental in knowing where to build my pond on it. I own several books
on the subject and this is one of the best.

Editorial Review:

This A-Z guide provides pond owners and builders with an at-a-glance reference to answer any question. From Acid Rain to Zooplankton, pond guru Tim Matson defines and explains more than two hundred terms associated with pond building and maintenance, both familiar and obscure. Here the reader will find descriptions and definitions of all significant pond elements, including: -- structural features -- construction materials -- water conditions and treatments -- aquacultural topics and crops -- environmental concerns -- government support and regulatory agencies -- landscaping More than two hundred illustrated entries distill the latest information on ponds into a unique and definitive companion for pond owners and builders.

Landscaping Earth Ponds: The Complete Guide

Tim Matson

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

The guru of earth ponds explains how to site, design, shape, and plant these beloved fixtures of rural landscapes--and make them fit your property and your life.

In the decades since he wrote his acclaimed Earth Ponds, Tim Matson has designed scores of ponds, each unique to its site and its owners. In Landscaping Earth Ponds, he shares what he has learned to make these captivating ponds truly fit into their landscapes and into the lives and lifestyles of their owners.

Ponds have long been valued for their charm and utility: how else can you simultaneously enliven your landscape, create recreational opportunities, help the environment, and increase your property value? Earth ponds are increasingly recognized for the full range of gardening, landscaping, and ecological promise they hold. As pond-building methods have been perfected, more homeowners are restoring existing ponds or digging new ones. With dozens of color photographs, Matson shows you how to site a pond in right relation to your house, offering surprisingly simple ways to visually link the two.

His proven methods and designs reflect the many moods water evokes. Screen your pond for privacy, create a sandy beach and natural diving platform, encourage wetland gardens, line the shores with moisture-loving perennials, or design your gardens and paths to create a sense of mystery and adventure.

Simple Fountains for Indoors & Outdoors: 20 Step-By-Step Projects

Dorcas Adkins

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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.

Dorcas Adkins is certainly a magician when it comes to fountain design. Her wizardry encompasses bamboo, wood, ceramic, concrete, stone, and metal creations, from small tabletop delights to full-sized garden waterfalls. Her extremely thorough and well-diagrammed instructions make even the most complex projects approachable--and some of them are indeed fairly complex, involving woodworking skills, plaster and concrete casting, ceramic modeling, soldering, or rigging an existing sculpture. But the results are well worth the effort, yielding Zen-like arrangements in which water trickles over a miniature bonsai garden, through bamboo piping, or into a rustic stone trough filled with water lilies; or more traditional Western constructions such as a ewer-toting cherub, a shell-and-stone-and-tile mosaic, or various spouting faces.

Beginners or those seeking smaller-scale productions are best off starting with a more basic approach, like Dawn Cusick's Tabletop Fountains. But for the more adventurous fountaineers, it's hard to beat Adkins's presentation, which also helpfully includes a list of mail-order suppliers and a useful at-a-glance guide to finding general materials, from antique tubs to pond liners to wooden barrels. --Amy Handy

The Pond Lovers

Gene Logsdon

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

To his legions of readers, Gene Logsdon is best known as the Contrary Farmer. His writings, which blend commonsense advice, curmudgeonly wit, and respect for the earth, are manna to anyone who wants to live, as Logsdon puts it, "at nature's pace."

The Pond Lovers is Logsdon's ode to the watery microcosms all around us, from the half-acre farm pond to the suburban garden pool. Readers looking for hands-on experience will find plenty of pond-keeping dos and don'ts. Logsdon's higher purpose, however, is to proclaim the natural, spiritual, and recreational benefits of ponds.

Fed by spring or filled by rainfall, the ponds closest to Logsdon's heart need minimal human interference in the way of machinery or chemicals. Those we read about in The Pond Lovers mostly belong to Logsdon's friends and neighbors, an extraordinarily resourceful group of people. For them, a pond is many things--from a place to fish, swim, or skate to an oasis for local plants, insects, and animals. Each purpose, Logsdon shows us, has its place in a thoughtful, self-sufficient life. Throughout, Logsdon also reminds us of the intense personal connections to ponds of such creative giants as Claude Monet, Andrew Wyeth, and Henry David Thoreau.

Drawn from many and varied lifetimes spent around ponds, The Pond Lovers brims with lessons and opportunities for good work and good play--for backyard naturalists, do-it-yourselfers, and armchair gardeners.

Your Healthy Garden Pond (Pond & Aquatic S.)

Steve Halls

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Must Read for a Healthy Pond 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

This is a very good book for those who already have a pond. It does not get into the design and construction of ponds, but concentrates on maintaining the pond you have. This is exactly what I was looking for. I did not need to design or construct a pond; however, I did need the knowledge to maintain an existing pond, and this book fit the bill perfectly.

It covers:
* Water quality - the nitrogen cycle and what tests you need to perform
* Filtration - types of filters, filter media, cleaning filters
* Algae and plants - types of plants and how to grow them, how to contain algae
* Fish - the different types of fish suitable for a pond and how to diagnose problems
* Pond cleaning - when and how to clean the pond
* Seasonal maintenance. - fall and winter preparations

Also this book is illustrated with many full color pictures so you can see clearly what the author is talking about.

Editorial Review:

A complete guide to one of the hottest gardening trends.

This guide shows water gardeners how to build a pond, add fish and aquatic plants, and keep it all healthy. The book offers:

• Beautiful photographic examples of water gardens
• Easy-to-follow illustrated instructions for setting up a pond
• Tips on selecting fish and plants, plus pictures of common species
• Advice on keeping the pond clean and attractive

Simple Fountains

Dorcas Adkins

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Editorial Review:

What?s more soothing than the sound of moving water? Redirecting a stream to run through your home or office may not be practical, but tiny, reliable electric pumps make it possible for you to create a small, indoor tabletop fountain; install a spouting sculpture in your backyard; or even build a full-size waterfall on your property.

This new paperback edition of Simple Fountains gives you illustrated, precise, easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for building 20 aesthetically interesting waterworks at a fraction of the cost you?d pay for those found in upscale catalogs. Using readily available materials (Adkins even includes hints for finding suitable recyclable materials) and simple crafting techniques, you will learn to custom-design your own water-filled masterpiece.In this beautifully designed, inspiring book, Adkins reviews the types of materials you can use for your fountain ? including wood, bamboo, ceramic, stone, and copper. She discusses accessories such as flowers, shells, bonsai trees, sculpture, and fish. And she recommends specific products that will make you happier with the finished product (small magnet-driven fountain pumps, for example, tend to be the quietest on the market).Even if you consider yourself ?non-crafty,? Adkins?s can-do attitude will give you the confidence to build a beautiful fountain for any corner of your office, home, or garden.