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Water Garden Hydrology
Beautiful and effective edge treatment is the secret to success with a Japanese water garden. The most common edge treatment involves large landscape boulders positioned at the water's edge where they provide a natural-looking means of erosion control. This 6-page pond construction article by Tim Gruner explains how one public Japanese garden removed a large steel retaining wall and replaced it with handsome stone edging. If you want to build a water garden on a large scale, this kind of article provides valuable engineering and aesthetic advice.
