mardi 1 juillet 2014

Designs For Landscaping Around Pool

By Darren Hartley


The primary concerns in landscaping around pools are privacy, safety, beauty and convenience. Beauty and privacy around a swimming pool are provided by plants. They soften the harsh lines of swimming pool equipment and help swimming pools blend more naturally with the surrounding environment.

Growing plants that are tall enough will form privacy screens around the pool area. This technique for safe landscaping around pools requires the wise choice of plants. Low maintenance plants should be the target. Putting large deciduous trees around a pool will find you fishing out all their leaves out of the pool.

Broadleaf evergreens including hollies are always good options as far as landscaping around pools are concerned. Beware of messy fruit trees and beautiful flowers. They are magnetic to bees, which you don't want hanging around your pool. Plants with invasive root systems must also be avoided as they are known to damage swimming pools as time passes on.

Couples with little children need fencing and outdoor lighting around swimming pools. This is in answer to the safety concern in landscaping around pools. In addition, the right fence design also adds privacy to the surroundings. By training vines to grow over the fence, an enhancement to the privacy of the pool is achieved.

Landscaping around pools with patios or pool decks not only provide aesthetics but also safety to the scenario. Imagine landing on a slip-resistant surface of a scarred concrete patio after climbing out of the pool. What could be safer than that? Opting for a brick patio would need a rough surface for the bricks.

For the ultimate in convenience, nothing can beat a closed gazebo as far as landscaping around pools is concerned. It offers shade to cover from the heat of the sun and provides an area to change in and out of swimsuits and clothes in a jiffy. To convert the pool to a complete home outside the house, outdoor furniture, a furnace and barbeque equipment can be added to the landscape.




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