http://www.ponds-and-fountains.com/books/building-my-zen-garden/ Learn more about water features and garden ponds. Mon, 05 Jul 2010 07:57:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.ponds-and-fountains.com/books/building-my-zen-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-1989 Fifi Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:07:50 +0000 http://www.ponds-and-fountains.com/books/building-my-zen-garden/#comment-1989 While this isn't an all inclusive guide to japanese gardening, its a fun and inspiring read. After reading this book I set about building my own japanse style garden; and while I didn't find myself referring to it for specifics of actually building the garden - I did find myself referring to it for motivation. Egan's self-effacing sense of humour is particularly enjoyable, as he struggles with such tribulations as moving a large rock, or dealing with a leaking pond (problems that I also found myself dealing with). I would highly recommend this book to any do-it-yourselfer thinking about building a japansese style garden. While this isn’t an all inclusive guide to japanese gardening, its a fun and inspiring read. After reading this book I set about building my own japanse style garden; and while I didn’t find myself referring to it for specifics of actually building the garden – I did find myself referring to it for motivation. Egan’s self-effacing sense of humour is particularly enjoyable, as he struggles with such tribulations as moving a large rock, or dealing with a leaking pond (problems that I also found myself dealing with). I would highly recommend this book to any do-it-yourselfer thinking about building a japansese style garden.

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