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Landscaping Swimming Pools

landscaping swimming pools

Landscaping swimming pools in a way that brings color and shade is important part of enjoying your backyard pool.

There are many other considerations to think of when you select the plants or bushes you want to include such as:

1. Low maintenance - living in Atlanta, Georgia we need plants that are heat and drought resistant.

2. Disease Resistant

3. Provide color - we have pool plants that provide color throughout the summer including hydrangeas, Knock-Out Roses, Black-eyed Susans, yellow and red day lilies, gardenias, and clematis.

4. Provide Fragrance - Confederate Jasmine, Ligustrum and Gardenias provide fragrance at different times

Lanscaping for Color

landscaping swimming pools

Landscaping with color is an important consideration as you choose plants, bushes or perennials for around your pool.

Our bushes and perennials provide color all through the summer when we are out by the pool. Find perennials that blossom at different times.

Last summer we planted several deep red Knock-out Roses. They blossomed all summer and are low maintenance.

For more ideas on getting some color around your pool click here: Landscaping with Color

Landscape for Privacy

landscaping swimming pools

Pool landscaping should provide some privacy. We did not want a wooden privacy fence around our pool, but we do want some privacy since we back up to a golf course.

We have planted Evergreen Clematis, Carolina and Confederate Jasmine and would you believe some raspberry plants along our pool fence.

Landscape for Low Maintenance

When we consider what plants we want to include around our pool they need to be low maintenance. For us, living in Atlanta, they need to be drought and heat resistant and disease resistant.

My husband and I work full time and we don't have a lot of time to water everyday or to spray plants that catch diseases. We mostly use perennials and bushes that come back every year and thrive on neglect.

These blue hydrangeas are a favorite of mine. Not only do they provide color around the pool, but I use these perennial flowers for lots of my centerpieces and pool decorating. Low Maintenance Landscaping

Landscape for Fragrance

These ligustrum provide a nice fragrance during the month of May.

But my favorite fragrance is from our Little Gem Magnolia. It has a really fresh citrus smell and beautiful white blossoms and shiny green leaves.

I use the blossoms from both to make fragrant flower centerpieces.

In June our gardenia's are in blossom and provide us with another month of a wonderful garden scent.

The two other plants that provide flowers and fragrance are the Confederate Jasmine and peonies.

The Confederate Jasmine vine grows along our pool fence.

Landscape for Centerpieces

Plants around the pool need to provide flowers or fragrance. I use my perennials to make up bouquets for our pool party decorations.

In spring I made several floral centerpieces from white azaleas for a girl's night out by the pool. This weekend we had a group of friends over for an outdoor dinner and I made several floral centerpieces from my Endless Summer Hydrangeas.

My husband and I are not professional landscapers, but we do enjoy making our backyard pool a colorful and relaxing retreat. When we entertain guests out by the pool, there are always compliments and comments on how beautiful our backyard looks.

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Backyard Swimming Pool Landscaping Ideas

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