The Pond Doctor: Planning & Maintaining A Healthy Water Garden
This volume by an experienced water gardener focuses strictly on maintaining a garden pond by troubleshooting or preventing problems that may occur to the structure, plants, or fish. Although it is meant to prevent problems for the novice pond builder, a beginner would also need to use a general work on garden pools such as Ken Druse's Burpee Water Gardening (Prentice Hall, 1993) since Nash's work offers no general overview of pond building. Instead, it plunges in on page one with specifics on possible siting problems and continues with chapters of advice on pumps, water quality and filtration, how to maintain water plants and fish, and how to deal with unwanted pests. A list of suppliers for the specialized equipment and plants would have been helpful. For larger collections.Molly Newling, Piscataway P.L., N.J.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.