Autographed Hard Cover Pond Care Books Direct
The prices below exclude packing and postage. For UK orders packing and postage will be 2.70 for one OR more books. For international orders price will be supplied on application
PETER MAYS WATER GARDEN BOOKS
The Perfect Pond Recipe Book Second Edition. Hard Back and in colour by Kingdom Books. Last few terrestrial copies available. 4.95 plus p and p (2.70 in the UK)
This book is all you need to guide you in the creation of the water garden of your dreams on any site. Using the products generally available in all aquatic stores, from preformed liners to flexible liners in the ground or out of the ground. Forget the large inspirational coffee-table books with a clutter of extraneous information. This book concentrates on the basic information and techniques required to make a huge range of water features.
From natural style to formal ponds, also streams, fountains, waterfalls and cascades, you get them right first time, because it takes you through everything you have to consider before you start. Simple drawings that encapsulate the lessons learnt in dozens of typical water gardens, give you a step-by-step view of different styles of project as they progress.
This book has sold in the tens of thousands and the last few copies of the second edition are available. It will be several months before there is another edition and it may then only be available as an Ebook.
The Perfect Pond Detective Book 1 The Biological balance- hard back and colour by Kingdom Books. ISBN 185279098-9. R.r.p.10.95. My price 10.00 + p and p (2.70 U.K.)
This is a troubleshooting book for those with pond problems that relate to the health of their pond and its inhabitants. It is full of straightforward and practical advice and illustrated with amusing but informative illustrations. If you have any doubts about what plants you need, your fishes health, plagued by green water, have ineffective filters and don't know where to even start when it comes to the big pond clean out, well this is what you need. With a maintenance schedule for looking after your water garden and signs to look for with regards potential and looming problems, this book makes the perfect companion to help you look after your water garden. Look no further for a friend.
The Perfect Pond Detective Book 2 The Physical and Mechanical Problems hard back and colour by Kingdom Books. ISBN 185279099-7. R.r.p 9.95. My price 9.00 + (2.70 U.K) Both books for the same p and p.
Here are the solutions to problems both major and minor and how to deduce the precise cause. How do you find leaks in liners, streams and filters and just what do you do in an emergency when you find you find your fish flapping around on the floor of an empty pool and your pump a smoking vestige burnt out vestige of its former glory? And how do you avoid anything like that happening again? Then once you have found the problem, how do you fix it?
All the trade secrets are here gleaned from over 20years experience of every disaster that can strike the ignorant and unwary. Written in straight-forward and direct language, it is illustrated with amusing and informative drawings. This book is a companion to the T.P.P.D Book 1-Biological Balance and between them they make the essential water garden paramedic team.
Water GardenDesign by Yvonne Rees and Peter May- UK publisher in soft back, David and Charles. Recommended price 12.99.
My price 10 plus p and p. (UK 2.70)
Not just an inspirational Coffee Table Book and not just a how-to manual, this book takes 15 amazing stylish creations from designers all over the world and shows just how you can do it with easily obtainable materials and products. From pebble fountains to natural looking water gardens, with a stage by stage illustrations showing to how to achieve the end result, the magical secrets of the water garden landscaper are revealed.
There is a water plant directory but also a range of plants recommended for each stylistic creation and a maintenance schedule and advice about fish keeping, which make this a comprehensive water garden manual as well as being a reliable guide for people who need direction and inspiration when it comes to creating their own water gardens.
From the huge effort by a team of experts, photographers and illustrators, all at the top in their field, David and Charles have published one of the best books ever on water gardening.
People interested in buying my books can email me at pj.may@ntlworld.com and I will provide the with the address to which to send their cheques or postal orders.