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  s modern day living makes ever more increasing demands on our time the garden is often the room in a house most neglected by its busy occupants. Or perhaps the thought of creating a large scale water feature is for some to daunting a task? But with the help of a brand new handbook from the excellent Water Garden Handbook Series by Philip Swindells, Container Water Gardens even the smallest terrace, roof-top garden or patio can enjoy a water feature.
This superbly written handbook features many many inspirational design ideas for container water gardening. Coupled with highly informative text, stunning full-colour photographs and easy to read step-by-step instructions, this book is a must for anyone thinking of creating their own water feature.
The handbook with an interesting insight into just some of the different ways a container can be used to create a water feature. The author suggests using anything from wooden barrels, weather-proof terracotta pots, sinks and troughs to watering cans and plastic stackable storage containers, it would seem that just about anything big or small is suitable providing it holds water.
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 mall gardens present a specific set of gardening challenges with particular regard to adding water, but the author Philip Swindells helpfully presented some large-scale projects in a reduced format that even the smallest garden could easily accommodate. Even a project semmingly as complex a creating a water staircase is re-worked to be achievable in a incredibly small space.
Each of the completed projects is fully "dressed" with complimentary planting suggestions and later in the book the author goes on to describe some of the aquatic plants that are best suited to more confined spaces.
 ust because your garden happens to be more compact, this does not mean that you shouldn't have all the elements of a pond that is more usually found in larger gardens. On page 37 Philip Swindells descibes in detail how to go about creating you very own miniature trough pond with appropriate planting.
Or perhaps you are looking to create something more dramatic, the author explains that with a container water garden the gardener can ring the changes as often as he likes and use some of the wonderful materials available in garden centres today. Materials such as crushed glass, clear perspex, hypertufa, cobbles, slate, stainless steel and other metals are all introduced in this fascinating handbook - perfect for aquatic gardeners of all levels.Sample Pages
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Contents
Introduction
Tubs and barrels
Oriental style and bamboo spouts
Sinks and troughs
Millstones and bubblers
Terracotta and glazed pots
Sunken containers
Creative containers
Wooden features
Pot fountains
Spouts and cascades
Planted tub with fountain
Barrel and spout
Japanese themed container
Bamboo spout
Miniature trough for marginals
Dressing a sink with hypertufa
Setting up a millstone
Bubbler in a glazed pot
Miniature pot pool
Sunken container
Watering can fountain
Timber lined box
Bog garden window box
Ali Baba fountain
Ram's head wall fountain
Water staircase
Plants for containers
Looking after container features
Index
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| Reviewed by Jillian Cox |
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