Testimonials and Reviews of: Water Garden Design Book by Yvonne Rees and Peter May
Published by David and Charles/ 12.99/ ISBN 7153 1281 2
Amateur Gardening: what's New with Julia Heaton. 15th Sept 2001
What's extremely useful about it is that it gives step-by-step instructions on how to build 15 different water garden designs including fountains, waterfall and stream gardens, a decked pond, a rill garden and even a grotto. There's plenty here to inspire.The book is good value.
Water Gardening: Book Reviews by Andrea Hargreaves. Jan 2002
Pick up all too many practical-based books and you are likely to be confronted with a maze of information giving you only the haziest of keys to help find your way about. So I was immediately impressed with the magazine style contents page in Water Garden Design that tells you exactly what youre going to get. The Essentials section tells you things you need to know before you start, The Designs are simply that the contents page even has a thumbnail picture of each project and The Directories lists plants with a water garden bias - again with pictures of each one and addresses fish keeping and pond maintenance.
Yvonne Rees and Peter May confirm with understated passion that water is the most exciting element you can use in garden design and then proceed to give a quantity of general advice about planning, preparation and construction.
Each project looks at all the components, from design to planting, with a plan listing plants and hard landscaping. Confidently written, this book could well be the one to give any wavering readers the confidence to get excavating that first pond.
Gardens Made Easy: New Books. Feb 2002
The pictures in this book will make you want to build or develop your own pond or water feature, and the illustrations will help you do it
The Irish Garden: Overleaf by Mary Davies. Oct/Nov 2001
..is fun to read even if you have immediate intention of adding a water feature to your garden you may find yourself suddenly inspired !
Each kind of water feature and its construction is clearly illustrated with drawings: every detail is carefully laid out stage-by-stage. The photographs are delightful and the main ones do show the actual water gardens under discussionThere is a short plant directory, an index, and lots of sound advice on keeping fish, and on maintenance. If no garden today is complete without a water feature, here is the starting point to create one.
Newcastle Journal: Book of the Week, 30th March 2002
strongly practical with clear and copious illustrations on construction and plants as well as final appearance.a useful starting point with clear ideas for any one considering a water feature.
The Daily Record: Homes and Gardening by Janet Wheatcroft. 1st Sept 2001
One of..two first rate books full of practical designs..
Organic Gardening: December books in brief. Dec 2001.
..a well thought-out book on the basics of DIY water features, from ponds to barrel fountains, with comprehensively illustrated step-by-step guides to a whole range of projects and helpful information on choosing plants and fish.
Woman and Home: The Pleasure of Water by Shelagh Massie. Aug 2002
.a no-nonsense book that takes you through design construction, maintenance, plants and interesting fish.
TALKS and LETTERS OF THANKS:
From the Secretary of the South West Region of the British Association of Landscape Industries, Howard Roberts.
Dear Mr May,
I am just writing to thank you very much for your informative talk at our meeting on Tuesday, ..it must have taken some time to put it together. Talking to members afterwards the feeling was it was well worth the effort of turning out on such a bad night. Water gardening must be the in thing as we had our largest meeting so far for your talk.
From Congresbury and District Horticultural Society, Judy Brook.
Many thanks for coming to along to our meeting on the evening of Thursday 6th April and giving us an interesting and entertaining talk on bog gardens..
Lympsham Gardening Club, E Price.
thank you for your very interesting and informative talk last week..we did enjoy your talk so thank you for coming.
Wrington and Redhill Mothers Union, Bernice Woods.
Heartfelt thanks for visiting us yesterday and for the informative and entertaining talk.
I can only repeat the sentiment expressed by Eve in her vote of thanks, that this was one of the most interesting and enjoyable afternoons we have spent. We were totally enraptured by the beautiful slides.
Again, many thanks.
With every good wish may you sell many more books.