Water Works: Creating a Splash in the Garden
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The first in-depth exploration of bringing water into contemporary garden design
Written for gardeners and homeowners, Water Works is a rich source of ideas and techniques if you wish to incorporate water features into your home landscape. It covers everything from ponds, waterfalls, and streams to fountains, pools, and spas. Gloriously illustrated with on-site photographs, these colorful pages show how water--tranquil, sensuous, or playful--can set the tone for your entire landscape. This unique gardening book explains how to successfully blend new water features into an existing garden environment and offers specific planting recommendations for a variety of water sites. Important design, mechanical, and safety information is also included.
Bring the natural beauty of water into your own home landscape
Water Works presents a wellspring of ideas and techniques for incorporating water features into your home landscape. Imaginative, expert advice from gardening gurus Maureen Gilmer and Michael Glassman makes your desired water features achievable in every environment, from small city spaces to large country estates. Gloriously illustrated with on-site photographs by award-winning photographer Mick Hales, these colorful pages show how water--tranquil, sensuous, or playful--can set the tone for your entire landscape.
In this fascinating text, the authors explore how water functions--specifically, how it works in a given landscape to solve problems and to enhance difficult environmental challenges. Beginning chapters are devoted to the natural waterfall, pool, and streambed, which showcase water's working role in the wild and its realistic adaptations in gardens. Subsequent chapters describe how water can work to transform a dull outdoor space into a sculpted work of art, including options for easy-to-install, aesthetically pleasing, self-contained fountains you can do yourself. Final chapters leap into the depths of pools and spas, where water not only enriches the visual landscape but stimulates your body and spirit as well.
With specific planting recommendations for a variety of water sites, as well as important design, mechanical, safety, and supply-ordering information, this unique book offers homeowners, landscapers, and builders the tools necessary for creating a fluid landscape from any existing garden environment.
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Water Works: Creating a Splash in the Garden,Maureen Gilmer,Michael Glassman,McGraw-Hill,0809297213,Gardening,Gardening / Horticulture,Gardening/Plants,Landscape,Landscape Horticulture,Ponds,Water in landscape architectur,Water in landscape architecture,Garden design & planning,Gardening / General,Water gardens, pools
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