Swimming Pool Landscaping Plant Selection
Safety, privacy, placement, access, maintenance. There's a lot to consider when installing a swimming pool in your landscape. And of course, plant selection and landscaping around your swimming pool will demand some thought as well. The plants you choose can serve different roles around pools but need to be chosen wisely.
From a maintenance point of view, evergreen or semi-evergreen plant varieties should be your first choice when choosing garden plants for around swimming areas. The fewer leaves dropped means the less you'll have to clean out of your skimmer or off the bottom of your pool. Not to mention the daily clean up if you're creating any deck plans or or patio areas.
Choose trees of a broad leaf evergreen nature over diciduous, fruit, or even conifer needle leaf evergreens. Needle leaf varieties still make quite a mess at different times of the year. Fruit trees are messy as well as being insect and bee magnets. And diciduous trees, even though they're great for shade in landscaping and garden plans, simply drop too many leaves to be good choices for plants around swimming pools. More on this below...
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