Indoor Water Garden Design: 20 Eyecatching Designs to Bring the Outdoors into Your Home

Here's twenty water garden designs that will bring elegant outdoor garden features inside the home. Designs come with step-by-step instructions, and cover a wide spectrum of choices to suit individual home interiors, available space, and budget considerations. The author discusses needed tools and equipment—everything from pumps and filters for the water features to the required building materials for both raised and sunken indoor pools. The projects are presented in a series of detailed photos and diagrams that are complemented with instructive text. Projects include water gardens that range in size from a tabletop fountain decorated with small plants to a large sunken conservatory pool embellished with luxuriant tropical greenery and distinctive lighting and seating features. Other designs include room corner pools, room divider fountains, a shell grotto with a small pond, and even an indoor swimming pool with an adjoining water garden. Following the design projects are a detailed plant directory with cultivation advice, and a directory of appropriate fish breeds for various pond types and sizes. A concluding chapter offers detailed advice on indoor water garden maintenance. More than 200 full-color illustrations.

Yvonne Rees is editor of Water Gardener magazine, published in the U.K. She is featured on British radio and TV with gardening advice, and has written nine previously published books on gardening and water gardens.