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Take your garden to the next level with the soothing sights and sounds of water.
Sunset
Garden Pools, Fountains & Waterfalls
will help you add a peaceful yet dramatic accent to your garden landscape. The 5th edition of this bestseller lures you into the languid ease and calm beauty of water features with a richly expanded full-color photo gallery. Enjoy an abundance of great design ideas with step-by-step instructions for constructing ponds, foundations, and waterfalls. This extensive, informative guide also provides plant recommendations.
You'll also find:
Complete materials lists and easy-to-follow instructions for each do-it-yourself garden addition
Guides by region on plantings for ponds
Tips for maintaining healthy fish and clean water
And so much more!
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546077
Sunset Garden Pools, Fountains & Waterfalls
$16.95
Dimensions - 8-1/4" x 10-3/4"
144 Pages
Softcover
16 Projects
Step-by-step photos and expert building tips
Size & Shape
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Your budget and the physical limitations of your site influence the size and shape of your garden pool, but aesthetics and maintenance should be part of your planning as well. Larger pools require more work and expense up front, but they may provide more enjoyment and require less upkeep over time. It is easier for a large pool to achieve a balanced ecosystem, which in turn allows fish and plants to contribute much of the maintenance themselves.
First-time pool builders tend to make a pool that is too small, in part because they underestimate how much water it takes to fill even a modest-sized pool. Try to look at garden pools that have already been installed to get a mental picture of how large a pool your site can accommodate. Take along a tape measure so that you can check the dimensions of the pools you examine. If your visions are larger than your budget, or time is limited, it is perfectly acceptable to construct a pool in stages. Draw up plans for your ultimate pool, then build the first stage using flexible EPDM liner. When you decide to expand, you can attach additional sections of liner to the existing one.
A Naturalistic Pool
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The owner of this thoughtfully designed garden was very happy with her creation. But she felt it lacked one important element the sight and sound of moving water. After considering several options, she decided to carve out enough room for a small garden pool equipped with a modest waterfall and an adjacent bog garden, which would allow for greater plant diversity.
The pool needed to fit into a fairly tight space between a stone walkway, French drain, and fence. This space limitation, combined with the desire to create a natural-looking water feature, made the choice of a flexible liner an easy one to make.
Perhaps the biggest hurdle the homeowner faced was getting electrical power to the desired location for a pump outlet, which was behind the proposed waterfall. This entailed removing a number of patio pavers, digging a 12-inch-deep trench, and running electrical cable through buried PVC conduit. She wisely chose to run two cables to separate outdoor GFCI outlets. One of them is connected to a switch indoors, allowing the pump to be turned on and off from the inside of the house.
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