Plants are the engine room of a natural swimming pool, ensuring the successful functioning of its biological cleaning system and creating a wonderful natural environment in which to swim. Understanding the role of aquatic plants in achieving clean, clear water is therefore essential, and learning how to design with aquatic and poolside plants will allow you to develop your pool into an inspirational water garden. This book explains the natural swimming pool system and the ways in which plant...
Water running over rocks is a welcome element in any outdoor space, having the power to soothe or excite. Whether you want a small feature or a series of waterfalls, this practical guide provides a host of inspirational ideas for using water and rock in your garden. Step-by-step photographic sequences and cross-sectional artworks show how to build a range of features, including a Rock-edged Pool, a Wildlife Pool and free-standing features such as a Cobble Fountain or a Brimming Urn. Useful secti...
The Adventurous Gardener (Penguin gardening classics)
by Christopher Lloyd
Lloyd inspires gardeners to be adventurous and offers ways to make new and exciting such familiar chores as weeding, taking cuttings, reseeding, and pruning.
The Water Garden - With Chapters on Making and Planting the Water Garden
by George Dillistone
The Netherlands is steeped in horticultural history and its gardens have long been a place for innovation and progressive thinking, exemplified by iconic figures such as the landscape architect Mien Ruys and naturalistic plant pioneer Piet Oudolf. In this book, Noel Kingsbury and Maayke de Ridder explore how the particularities of landscape, history and culture in the Netherlands have given rise to distinctive gardens and demonstrates how a new generation of Dutch designers are reimagining outd...
-- What is the true nature of water and does it have memory? -- By working with the rhythm and flow of water, can we increase its life-giving power? Water is not only fundamental to life but is essential for the cycles and changes in nature. John Wilkes argues as well that water is the universal bearer of whatever character we put into it. For this reason the way we treat water is of crucial importance to our health, and to the well-being of our planet. Working with his remarkable invention, the...
