title: Garden Answers: Ponds: Expert Answers to All Your Questions (Garden Answers S.)
author:  Richard Bird 
description: Richard Bird has practiced gardening since childhood and is the author of over thirty books including Garden Answers: Ponds, Garden Answers: Pruning, and Small Garden Solutions, all published by Hamlyn. He has edited a number of gardening magazines and also lectures widely as well as doing regular radio broadcasts.
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  Science in Arcady
  
  
  PREFACE.
  
  
  SCIENCE IN ARCADY.
  
  
    
    
  MY ISLANDS.  
    
  TROPICAL EDUCATION.  
    
  ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND.  
    
  A DESERT FRUIT.  
    
  PRETTY POLL.  
    
  HIGH LIFE.  
    
  [ EIGHT-LEGGED FRIENDS.](Science%20in%20Arcady_split_001.html#filepos182651)  
    
  [ MUD.](Science%20in%20Arcady_split_001.html#filepos212897)  
    
  [ THE GREENWOOD TREE.](Science%20in%20Arcady_split_001.html#filepos241809)  
    
  [ FISH AS FATHERS.](Science%20in%20Arcady_split_001.html#filepos270670)  
    
  [ AN ENGLISH SHIRE.](Science%20in%20Arcady_split_001.html#filepos303813)  
    
  [ THE BRONZE AXE.](Science%20in%20Arcady_split_002.html#filepos364553)  
    
  [ THE ISLE OF RUIM.](Science%20in%20Arcady_split_002.html#filepos392727)  
    
  [ A HILL-TOP STRONGHOLD.](Science%20in%20Arcady_split_002.html#filepos425542)  
    
  [ A PERSISTENT
  NATIONALITY.](Science%20in%20Arcady_split_002.html#filepos453278)  
    
  [ CASTERS AND CHESTERS.](Science%20in%20Arcady_split_002.html#filepos465651)
  
  
  