Pond Books

The perfect pond recipe book by Peter J. May.

What are the best plants to use in your pond? What sort of wild life will come to the pond - and which are welcome and which are pests? What is the cure for green water and what is and how does pH affect your pond?

What do you do when you go out one morning and find that the water in your pond has mysteriously disappeared? What makes the water go green, and what do you do about it? What chemicals are safe and how do you apply them? Is it possible to get it right form the beginning?

A well-proportioned formal pool, perhaps surrounded by regular paving and sited to take account of the natural perspectives of its surroundings, can draw the eye like no other feature in a garden. This book reveals how you should go about planning the style, proportion and position of a formal water feature, the materials and techniques required to build it, and the correct way to install and maintain pumps and filters. Selection and care of fish and plants is also covered.

There are lots of ways in which a water can be transformed by the addition of a decoration or a special feature - stepping stones, bridges, islands, paved or timber edging, decking terraces, planted rafts, submerged or pondside lights. They look fantastic and they need not be difficult to build and install. This profusely illustrated guide is filled with ideas for creating something special in your water garden, and includes simple practical advice on how to build and maintain a decorative feature for year-round pleasure.

Surprising as it may seem, it is relatively easy to introduce a water feature inside your home so that the pleasures of small pools, fountains and trickling spouts, colourful aquatic plants and gently swimming fish can be enjoyed year-round whatever the weather. This exciting new book focuses on projects that gardeners can create themselves to bring water into their living rooms. From conservatory pools to planted containers, there is something for every size of home.

A classic and hard to find book on Koi dating from the 1970's

Your first glimpse of a Koi will probably be a red-and-white fish, one of the popular and widely available variety called Kohaku. When you take up the Koi hobby, you'll discover more than 100 different 'patterns' among these stunning ornamental carp. This book explores them all.

Prepared by a team of acknowledged koi experts, giving expert advice on keeping koi in top-quality condition and a complete directory of their magnificent colour varieties.

Illustrated throughout with helpful line-drawings and almost one hundred stunning colour photographs, Garden Pondlopeadia takes you through every aspect of creating and careing for a garden pond.