Why It's Important To 'Plan' Your Poolside Garden
Having a fibreglass pool in your backyard isn't enough to increase your curb appeal. You'll need to add plants, shrubs and trees to your poolside area as well. A lot of people choose to build gardens in their backyards, next to their fibreglass pools. But when you're thinking of designing your backyard landscape, there are three factors that you'll need to keep in mind.
You can't just add any plant to your backyard. Some of the plants that you add to your yard can have a negative effect on your pool. Take for example a scenario where a person chooses to add a plant with a lot of pollen, next to their pool. While the plant can look visually appealing, it'll also end up depositing a lot of pollen into the water of the pool. This makes it hard for you to keep your pool area clean. It is also why you need to take special care when thinking about what plants you want to add to your pool.
Getting A Poolside Garden: Everything You Should Know
You probably don’t want to leave the space by your pool barren. What better way to make your backyard more visually striking, than by adding plants to it? However, you can’t just add any plants you like to your pool area. What then, should you consider, when planning your backyard pool landscape design?
The first thing you’ll need to think about is what you want the theme of your landscape design to be. Do you want a backyard that has a more tropical feel to it? Do you want to add turfgrass or artificial grass to your backyard, or would you rather get real grass? Do you want to add planters to your backyard, or do you want to plant your plants directly into the ground?
For a pool landscape design that not only looks good but keeps your pool clean as well, you’ll need to think carefully about what plants you’d like to add. You also shouldn’t forget about how you intend to use your pool. Do you like throwing a lot of pool parties? Maybe you prefer to use your pool area as a space to exercise in. If your fibreglass pool is an important part of your social life, then your pool landscape should complement the entertainment features you have in your backyard. You could have a fire pit, a lounge area, an outdoor kitchen, and more.
Consider also what furniture you have in your backyard. The plants you add to your backyard should complement not just your pool, but everything you have in your backyard. Your poolside garden should work together with your pool landscape, to increase the visual appeal of your backyard.
The Importance Of Planning Your Poolside Garden
When you don’t plan out what plants you’d like to add to your poolside garden, then this can affect you later on. This is because when you’re adding plants to your poolside garden, you’ll need to choose plants that work well in the environment you’re placing them in.
Say you want to add a large tree by your pool. This can be a bad idea because the roots of the tree can end up affecting the structural integrity of your pool if they are too close to it. The roots of the tree will keep on spreading out. When it’s too close to your pool, these roots will touch the exterior shell of your fibreglass pool. If it’s still allowed to grow, then these roots can surround your fibreglass pool and affect its structure. If you don’t want this to happen, then ensure that all the trees by your pool are at least ten feet away from your pool.
Here are some important tips on planning your backyard garden.
1. Choose Your Plants Carefully
The plants that you choose to add to your backyard should be those that don’t affect your pool or your pool landscape. While plants will form an important part of your pool landscape, you likely have other structures in your yard as well. Think about how the plants you add to your yard will affect these structures, as well as a practical use for the plants like keeping the bugs away!
It’s crucial that you ensure that the plants you add to your yard, stay within the boundaries that you’ve set for them. Consider using planters to keep your plants in, if you don’t want to add them directly to the ground.
2. The Roots Of The Plants
You’ll need to be careful to ensure that the roots of the plants you add to your garden aren’t too close to any poolside structure that might be affected by those roots. If you don’t plant out your garden, then the resulting garden could end up making your backyard look wild. It’ll be difficult to maintain such a garden as well.
Ensure that your plants are placed in such a way that their roots don’t interfere with any of the structures you’ve added to your poolside landscape.
3. Keeping The Pool Clean
Of primary importance is ensuring that the plants you add to your poolside garden don’t end up falling into the water of your fibreglass pool. This means that plants shouldn’t be added too close to your pool area. Otherwise, you’ll regularly need to clean out leaves, twigs, and other foreign contaminants from your pool area.
You can add plants in planters and place them around your pool. Choosing shrubs or plants that don’t shed as often, as well as plants that don’t cause a pollen problem, will help you keep your pool clean.
Conclusion
It’s important that you think about what kinds of plants you’re adding to your poolside garden. Ideally, you don’t want to add anything that will require you to keep cleaning your pool regularly. Avoid adding plants with a lot of pollen, or large trees and plants with deep roots, by your pool. If you want to add such plants, then place them at a distance from your pool.
Use the tips in this guide to better plan your poolside garden today.
Why It's Important To 'Plan' Your Poolside Garden
Having a fibreglass pool in your backyard isn't enough to increase your curb appeal. You'll need to add plants, shrubs and trees to your poolside area as well. A lot of people choose to build gardens in their backyards, next to their fibreglass pools. But when you're thinking of designing your backyard landscape, there are three factors that you'll need to keep in mind.
You can't just add any plant to your backyard. Some of the plants that you add to your yard can have a negative effect on your pool. Take for example a scenario where a person chooses to add a plant with a lot of pollen, next to their pool. While the plant can look visually appealing, it'll also end up depositing a lot of pollen into the water of the pool. This makes it hard for you to keep your pool area clean. It is also why you need to take special care when thinking about what plants you want to add to your pool.
Getting A Poolside Garden: Everything You Should Know
You probably don’t want to leave the space by your pool barren. What better way to make your backyard more visually striking, than by adding plants to it? However, you can’t just add any plants you like to your pool area. What then, should you consider, when planning your backyard pool landscape design?
The first thing you’ll need to think about is what you want the theme of your landscape design to be. Do you want a backyard that has a more tropical feel to it? Do you want to add turfgrass or artificial grass to your backyard, or would you rather get real grass? Do you want to add planters to your backyard, or do you want to plant your plants directly into the ground?
For a pool landscape design that not only looks good but keeps your pool clean as well, you’ll need to think carefully about what plants you’d like to add. You also shouldn’t forget about how you intend to use your pool. Do you like throwing a lot of pool parties? Maybe you prefer to use your pool area as a space to exercise in. If your fibreglass pool is an important part of your social life, then your pool landscape should complement the entertainment features you have in your backyard. You could have a fire pit, a lounge area, an outdoor kitchen, and more.
Consider also what furniture you have in your backyard. The plants you add to your backyard should complement not just your pool, but everything you have in your backyard. Your poolside garden should work together with your pool landscape, to increase the visual appeal of your backyard.
The Importance Of Planning Your Poolside Garden
When you don’t plan out what plants you’d like to add to your poolside garden, then this can affect you later on. This is because when you’re adding plants to your poolside garden, you’ll need to choose plants that work well in the environment you’re placing them in.
Say you want to add a large tree by your pool. This can be a bad idea because the roots of the tree can end up affecting the structural integrity of your pool if they are too close to it. The roots of the tree will keep on spreading out. When it’s too close to your pool, these roots will touch the exterior shell of your fibreglass pool. If it’s still allowed to grow, then these roots can surround your fibreglass pool and affect its structure. If you don’t want this to happen, then ensure that all the trees by your pool are at least ten feet away from your pool.
Here are some important tips on planning your backyard garden.
1. Choose Your Plants Carefully
The plants that you choose to add to your backyard should be those that don’t affect your pool or your pool landscape. While plants will form an important part of your pool landscape, you likely have other structures in your yard as well. Think about how the plants you add to your yard will affect these structures, as well as a practical use for the plants like keeping the bugs away!
It’s crucial that you ensure that the plants you add to your yard, stay within the boundaries that you’ve set for them. Consider using planters to keep your plants in, if you don’t want to add them directly to the ground.
2. The Roots Of The Plants
You’ll need to be careful to ensure that the roots of the plants you add to your garden aren’t too close to any poolside structure that might be affected by those roots. If you don’t plant out your garden, then the resulting garden could end up making your backyard look wild. It’ll be difficult to maintain such a garden as well.
Ensure that your plants are placed in such a way that their roots don’t interfere with any of the structures you’ve added to your poolside landscape.
3. Keeping The Pool Clean
Of primary importance is ensuring that the plants you add to your poolside garden don’t end up falling into the water of your fibreglass pool. This means that plants shouldn’t be added too close to your pool area. Otherwise, you’ll regularly need to clean out leaves, twigs, and other foreign contaminants from your pool area.
You can add plants in planters and place them around your pool. Choosing shrubs or plants that don’t shed as often, as well as plants that don’t cause a pollen problem, will help you keep your pool clean.
Conclusion
It’s important that you think about what kinds of plants you’re adding to your poolside garden. Ideally, you don’t want to add anything that will require you to keep cleaning your pool regularly. Avoid adding plants with a lot of pollen, or large trees and plants with deep roots, by your pool. If you want to add such plants, then place them at a distance from your pool.
Use the tips in this guide to better plan your poolside garden today.
