[.uk] Tabletop Fountains (Water Garden Handbooks) (ISBN 0764118447)

Book Description:
Books in Barron's profusely illustrated Water Gardens Handbooks series show amateur gardeners how to build the water garden of their dreams. Handsome designs and ambitious projects can be carried out with surprising ease by gardeners who follow the author's clear, step-by-step, photo-illustrated instructions. Details include suggestions and advice for stocking water gardens with fish and embellishing them with aquatic and waterside plants. Emphasis is placed on low-maintenance water features that offer maximum beauty with a minimum of fuss. This heavily illustrated step-by-step manual shows how to bring water garden ambience inside the home. Advice and suggestions incorporate miniature rock gardens, bonsai plants, and much more. Approximately 175 full-color photos.

The perfect startup book to unleash your creativity:
Within a two weeks of reading this book, I had created my first table top water fountain and am busy snooping around thrift stores (and the attic) for 'scrap' material that can be used to create awesome table top water fountains. This is a perfect book to channel one's creativity into something one can enjoy for years to come. The book uses a "Create something out of nothing" approach, which I find extremely appealing. For beginner's, purchasing this book is money well spent.

Simpatico:
The projects were on this side of cheesy. I was looking for some that didn't have that 1950's Home Handyman look. But the real disapointment that there was no resource list, particularly a list of suppliers. But I find that is de rigueur with British publications (author's residence on the inside front page is England and I've noted that English books are notorious for not providing good resource lists that we Americans demand).