POND PLANTS AND CULTIVATION

Books in Barron's profusely illustrated Water Gardens Handbooks series show amateur gardeners how to build the water garden of their dreams. Handsome designs and ambitious projects can be carried out with surprising ease by gardeners who follow the author's clear, step-by-step, photo-illustrated instructions. Details include suggestions and advice for stocking water gardens with fish and embellishing them with aquatic and waterside plants. Emphasis is placed on low-maintenance water features that offer maximum beauty with a minimum of fuss. Water gardeners can have color and blooming plant life virtually all year around when they choose projects and plants suggested in this manual. Advice and how-to instruction includes planting and propagation, recommended wetland and bog plants, creating foliage effects, and more. Approximately 175 full-color photos.