How to Build a Natural Swimming Pool
A natural swimming pool is an exciting feature for a garden. These living freshwater ecosystems provide a valuable habitat for beneficial insects and will delight swimmers, gardeners and nature lovers. Decades of experience lie behind this practical handbook which will steer you through the design, building and planting options whether you plan to build the pool yourself or hire a contractor.
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“Well laid out, detailed and useful — I only wish I'd read it before building my own.”
— Ben Law, Permaculture magazine
“A comprehensive, clear and tightly written book — full of illustrations, diagrams and case studies.”
— Annabel Downs, Garden Design Journal
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Andreas Thon.
Andreas Thon is professor of building technology in landscape architecture at Hochschule Geisenheim, where his research has, for over a decade, concerned itself with a single quietly subversive question: how water in a garden — a swimming pool, a pond, a small lake — can be kept clean by the plants in it, and what it would take for that to be the ordinary way of doing things, rather than the exception.
Read more →Wolfram Kircher.
Wolfram Kircher is Professor of Plant Ecology in the Department of Agriculture, Ecotrophology and Landscape Development at Hochschule Anhalt in Bernburg. His research has long concerned itself with how perennial communities behave on different substrates and irrigation regimes — and with the planting design of natural swimming pools, where moorland plants do, slowly, the work that chlorine does briskly and badly.
Read more →Book details
| Binding | Hardback |
|---|---|
| Extent | 328 pages |
| Dimensions | 261 × 221 × 25 mm |
| ISBN | 9780993389214 |