The Water Garden Encyclopedia: The Ultimate Guide to Designing, Constructing, Planting and Maintaining Garden Ponds and Water Features of Every Type Book

Introduction

Getting started
- Basic principles
- Options and materials
- Adding other elements
- Pumps and filters
- Basic design and construction

Water gardening in containers
- Tubs and barrels
- Planted tub with fountain
- Barrel and spout
- Sinks and troughs
- Dressing a sink with hypertufa
- Millstones and bubblers
- Setting up a millstone
- Bubbler in a glazed pot
- Terracotta and glazed pots
- Miniature pot pool
- Pot fountains
- Ali Baba fountain
- Bamboo spout fountain
- Bamboo spout
- Sunken containers
- Making a sunken container

Formal features - Classical-style square pools
- Classical-style round pools
- Marking out the site
- Making a round lined pool
- Installing an external filter
- Raised pools
- Making a raised pool
- Installing a formal patio pool
- Oriental-style water gardens
- Formal planted pools
- Plants for formal features
- Edging with stone and brick

The natural look
- Lakes and open water
- Informal garden ponds
- Natural garden ponds
- Installing a rigid pond
- Installing a pump and filter
- Making a lined pool
- Bog gardens
- Constructing a bog garden
- Wildlife ponds
- Making a wildlife pool
- Making a clay-lined dewpond
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Water meadows
- Edging an informal pond
- What plants where?

Introducing moving water to the garden
- Natural waterfalls
- Formal waterfalls
- Making a waterfall using liner
- A waterfall from preformed units
- Canals and rills
- Making a canal or rill
- Streams and brooks
- Constructing a small stream
- Ornamental fountains
- Making a poolside feature
- Fountain spray patterns
- Installing a pond fountain
- Wall fountains and grottoes
- Ram's head wall fountain

Adding decorative touches
- Decking
- Making your own decking
- Using ready-made decking
- Lighting
- Installing in-pool lighting
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Installing external lights
- Stepping stones
- Laying stepping stones
- Bridges and causeways
- Making a wooden bridge
- Installing an arched bridge
- Islands
- Making a wet island
- Making a dry brick island
- Edging with stone
- Edging with paving stones
- Edging with a cobble beach
- Edging with timber
- Natural edging with plants
- Using natural grass edging
- Ornaments and decorations

Cultivating aquatic plants
- Pygmy and small waterlilies
- Medium-sized waterlilies
- Large waterlilies
- Other deep-water aquatics
- Reeds and rushes
- Irises
- Other marginals
- Floating and submerged plants
- Flowering bog plants
- Foliage bog plants
- Choosing plants
- Soils and composts
- Planting and containers
- Natural planting
- Planting a waterlily
- Division of a crowded marginal
- Fertilizing plants
- Planting bog plants
- Waterlily propagation from eyes
- Division propagation -- reeds and rushes
- Division propagation -- other marginals
- Stem cuttings
- Propagating submerged plants
- Raising from seed
- Root cuttings and plantlets
- Storing plants overwinter

Care and maintenance
- Pond chemistry
- Stocking a pond with fish
- Coping with physical problems
- Eco-balance and seasonal care
- Maintaining hygiene and winter care