Detail:  Whether it resuls from your desire for improving the value of your property or from a need for a place to which to retreat to escape from pressing cares - or perhaps simply because you're a fancier of water plants and koi and goldfish - a garden pond can be one of the most sensible and rewarding investments you ever make. It brings pleasures and simple satisfactions in many forms, from communion with nature right through a chace to examine the fascinating habits of fish and other animals that can live and reproduce in the haven you've provided them. Perhaps most of all your garden pnd can be beautiful and admire by everyone.

This book will take you step by step through all of the preparation and planning you need to make you garden pond a success. It will cover for you, informatievely but enjoyably, every topic of significance to anyone planning to install a garden pond. Siting and design, construction, pond surroundings, aquatic plants, pond fish and other animals, general maintenance - they're all here.