Swimming Pool Landscape Design
Pool Landscaping Pictures
Need help planning your swimming pool landscape design? These pool landscaping photos and tips will inspire and excite you. Tropical pool landscape designs and ideas for landscaping around a pool in a temperate climate.
I'll start with the swimming pool landscape designs that are not in the tropics or subtropics. This photo is an example of backyard pool landscaping with flowering trees or shrubs.The trees depicted here are
crepe myrtles.
Crepe myrtle trees are available in many different colors and sizes. Some are 30 foot trees while others are 6 foot
dwarfs.
They are all summer bloomers. The leaves of most varieties will color up in the fall and some have trunks which feature attractive peeling bark. Between the leaves dropping in late fall and the little flowers falling off all summer, they can keep you busy cleaning the pool and pool deck if you plant them too close to these areas. The good news with these plants is, they will take any amount of pruning so their branches can be cut back at any time.
This resort in the California desert has used the native California Fan palm to good effect.These are stately trees which thrive in dry soil. They look best when planted in groups of at least 3 or in long rows. When mature, they will dwarf single story buildings on small lots. They are best used in commercial pool area landscaping or around multi-story homes. The neatly trimmed hedges and topiaries add a touch of class. Hedge material can sometimes be boring. The mixture of sizes and shapes used here keeps the design exciting.
Tropical Pool Landscape Ideas
Feather palms and evergreen trees are crowded onto the planting "islands" arranged all around this hotel pool.The pool is a series of circles and the planting beds have been laid out in curved shapes to mimic it. How do you use what you see here in your backyard pool landscaping? Repeat the shape of your pool in the planting beds you design.Confine your inground swimming pool landscaping to plant "islands". Build the beds so that the plants will be planted into the native soil (rather than in planters sitting on concrete) where they will have the greatest root run.Build up the soil with good quality compost so it will support lush growth and stuff the plants in to make it feel tropical from the start.
Nothing adds tropical drama to pool landscaping like a waterfall.This waterfall landscape design is small enough to fit into an average backyard. The homeowner has used banana plants, split leaf Philodendron bipinnatifidum and Purple Queen (Tradescantia pallida) to turn her backyard into a tropical oasis. Not content to confine the lushness to a planting island, she has placed more bananas and small Pygmy Date palms in large pots around the shimmering water. If you don't want to wait for banana corms to grow, you can order 7 foot tall banana trees here. They will be delivered to your door. Banana plants this size will make an instant impact around your pool and landscaping.
This swimming pool landscape design at Palm Cove Water Paradise features palm trees at their verdant best. Areca palms crowd in around the boulders. The clumping palm with the striking red leaf bases on the left is a Lipstick palm. The yellow blooms of a
dwarf Allamanda
provide the sole touch of color in this garden pool landscaping design.
This is the stunning swimming pool landscape design at a resort in Mexico. The patio has lots of stairs and seating areas on different levels.The plantings are grouped into a series of stone raised beds set atop the patio. The small delicate-looking palms are Pygmy Dates. Cacti and Agave fill the beach-like center of the bed in the foreground. Moses-in-the-Bulrushes is used extensively as an edging.
More Landscape Design Tips:
Above Ground Pool Landscaping Tips and Ideas
Pool Landscape Lighting Pics and Ideas
Waterfall Landscape Design Ideas
5 Enticing Examples of River Rock Landscaping
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