Ortho's All about Water GardeningA water garden brings soothing sounds and peaceful beauty to a yard. This book ensures your backyard pond is always a joy, never a chore. With clear explanations and dozens of tips, this book helps you to select and care for plants and fish and keep your pond healthy. Tips for potting, propagating, and growing water plants; Advice on selecting and caring for fish; Solutions for pests and predators; Designs and plans to get you started; Encyclopedia of the best plants for water gardens. |
Contents
Options for Design | 4 |
PLANTS FOR THE WATER GARDEN | 18 |
CRITTERS | 58 |
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12 inches algae Aqua Velvet aquatic arrowhead bloom blossoms blue bog garden cannas cattail chloramine cold climates color crown cultivars Curled Pondweed deep fanwort feet tall fertilizer fill the pot filters filtration flexible liner floating Floating marsh marigold foliage freezing frogs goldfish green hardy water lilies hole inches tall install iris keep landscape large ponds leaf leaves lizard's tail look lotus Lotuses marginals marsh marigold monkey flower mosquito overwinter oxygen pea gravel pickerel weed pink pond water Propagate pump purple rhizomes rocks roots Running Moist soil rush sedge seed shade Zones shape snails Spread spring sprout stem cuttings submerged plants summer Sun to shade sweet flag texture Tropical water lilies tuber umbrella grass upright water clover Water depth water garden water hawthorn water hyacinth Water lettuce water plants water snowflake water surface water temperature water willow WATER-LILY-LIKE PLANTS waterfall wide Moist soil winter yard yellow