Swimming Pool Landscaping Needs More Than Concrete

Now that your new swimming pool is installed, filled and ready for use you will want to consider some type of swimming pool landscaping to beautify the area. Chances are you have some type of fence installed on the perimeter for privacy or security and you now have two areas of opportunity.

On the exterior of the fence your options include simply planting grass and letting your yard grow right up to the fence, or installing an anti-bug strip to your swimming pool landscaping to help keep creepy-crawlies from entering your pool area. This can be accomplished by simply placing about an 18-inch wide strip of stones on top of plastic to create a vegetation-free zone. This will limit the ability of crawling insects from getting from the yard to your fence.

Alternatively, a line of shrubbery or flowers along the outside edge of the fence can decorate the outer portion of your swimming pool landscaping. On the inside, you will want to use care in your choice of any vegetation you plant around the pool or fence. You will want nothing that may attract stinging insects as part of your swimming pool landscaping as most people know how much some bees really like wet human skin.

Reduce Number Of Hiding Places

When you think of a swimming pool you can envision water and warmth and when a rodent thinks of a swimming pool they think of water, warmth and food, which would be the vegetation planted around or near it as part of your swimming pool landscaping. Plants with large leaves also provide a hiding place and an easily undetected means of travel throughout the area.

While it is not necessary to keep your swimming pool landscaping simply concrete, being cautious of what type of plants you allow to grow there and what type of insects or rodents they may attract is simply planning ahead. You also will not want bushes and shrubs could grow to the point where its root system could cause damage to your swimming pool in a few years.

Some people have determined that the vegetation they plant on the inside of their pool fence will also be functional. A few have planted tomato plants, pepper plants or both. The chlorinated water from the pool has not caused any serious harm to the plants and it does enhance their swimming pool landscaping.