Garden Pond Books.
There are quite a lot of books available on Garden Ponds, Fish Keeping, Garden Pond Building, Garden Pond Design and more. Below we show you some of our favourites.
N.B. Prices where shown are correct at time of writing. P&P will need to be added in some cases.
The Bumper Book of Garden Ponds
An essential guide to all aspects of creating a pond, including how to stock it with healthy fish and plants, plus year-round maintenance. Brimming with advice on all aspects of pond design, construction and maintenance.
Also contains extensive sections on suitable plants for growing in and around the pond and on how to choose, keep and breed a variety of fish. With 250 colour photographs and artwork illustrations.
Author: Dick Mills.
Interpet Guide to Garden Ponds
Planning a garden pond raises many questions. This colourful guide answers all these and more with a clear practical approach that will encourage everyone with a garden to embark on their first pond with absolute confidence.
An easy-to-follow practical guide to constructing, stocking and maintaining a pond in your garden. 120 pages, 20,000 words, 50 illustrations, 20 colour photographs.
Author: David Papworth.
Mini Encyclopaedia of Water Gardening
The key to success with a water garden is to get sound advice, and that is exactly what this attractive new mini-encyclopaedia provides. It gives the water gardener all that he or she needs to know in one compact package.
Written by an expert, attractively packaged in a handy format, and focusing on practical advice backed up by hundreds of explanatory pictures and step-by-step sequences.
Author: Philip Swindells.
The Water Gardening Handbook
A unique problem solving book aimed at both the amateur and more experienced water gardener. Contains practical advice on plants, maintenance and fish keeping, how to set up and manage a pond, and lots more.
Details on how to set up and manage a pond, what fish and plants can be maintained and how to create a wildlife pond.
Comprehensive and helpful answers to over 175 questions most commonly asked by gardeners.
Written by a renowned journalist and author with over 30 years of wide-ranging experience of water gardening.
Over 150 stunning photographs and informative diagrams with helpful captions, supplemented by numerous tables and charts.
The Perfect Pond Recipe Book
A valuable manual to pond and water garden landscaping, full of practical sketches that will allow even the most inexperienced to successfully cost, design and complete the perfect pond, waterfall or stream for the garden.
The book is printed on heavy board and is designed to open out completely flat so that it can be used 'on site' even in windy conditions. Author: Peter May.
A Practical Guide to Pond Plants and Cultivation
A book on how to use a wide range of plants in and around your garden pond, with a selection of more than 80 pond plants ranging from submerged oxygenators to moisture-loving plants that thrive in the damp soil around the edges.
All are featured in colour photographs, with full details of their size, spread care and propagation.
Author: Derek Lambert.
Interpet Handbooks Popular Pond Plants
A colourful and practical guide to using and maintaining a wide range of plants in and around your garden pond, including water lilies, aquatics, marginals and bog garden plants.
With specially commissioned step-by-step photographs showing planting techniques, essential maintenance, propagation, plus how to recognise and treat common plant pests and diseases.
Author: Philip Swindells.
The Ultimate Koi
Written by a team of specialist writers, this book is divided into four main sections, dealing with koi anatomy and colour varieties, setting up a suitable pond, koi care and guidelines on showing and judging koi.
The authors have been Koi keepers for a number of years. The book contains some very good ideas for planning and building your Koi pond. It also helps in deciding what equipment to buy for a variety of different styles and sizes of koi pond.
The section on diseases is excellent and shows in full colour what to look out for and how to treat any ailments with medicines and chemicals. Also there is a healthy diet section and a section on things that can go wrong.
Koi
A colourful and comprehensive celebration of these beautiful ornamental fish, packed with practical information to help you become a successful koi-keeper.
amazon.co.uk - £22.99 - go figure!
Keep Koi - An Essential Guide
An invaluable guide for all aspiring koi keepers keen to accept the challenge of maintaining and displaying these beautiful fish in their own pond.
Using clear text, colour photographs and stunning graphics, this book provides a practical introduction to all aspects of keeping Koi, from pond building options and filtration methods to breeding and showing.
Other sections provide advice on siting a Koi pond in the garden and the vital aspects of feeding and health care.
The book closes with a helpful glossary, which includes clear descriptions of the variety names and Japanese terms used throughout the hobby.
amazon.co.uk - £5.99
Koi Health
This invaluable book, written by two professional koi experts who have years of experience of breeding and looking after these beautiful fish, will help all hobbyists to safeguard the health of their koi collection.