4 Tips for Landscaping Your Pool

​Landscaping a pool is no joke and requires the utmost care in planning and execution to pull off properly. The right pool landscape can make you (and your guests) feel like you’re sitting in a tropical paradise, while one wrong choice can totally break the immersion.
 
A perfect pool landscaping design uses both natural and man-made materials to create a balanced aesthetic that is inviting to the eye and ergonomic for daily use. Natural elements include plants, sand, and rocks, while man-made elements of the landscaping may include rock-walls, dining space, or even a fire-pit.
 
Since creating the perfect landscape for your pool is not just a passing fancy but a long-term investment, here are four rock solid tips for your pool landscaping to ensure you create something beautiful and edifying.

Consider What Plants You’re Going to Use
While you might consider something like cherry trees to beautify your poolside, have you thought of how to clean up the petals and make sure they don’t clog up the pipes? Plants can be very tricky to use in pool landscaping, so it’s generally a good decision to avoid using plants that shed leaves and petals a lot as it will only add to your cleaning woes. Shrubs or evergreen trees are generally preferred by homeowners who are looking for low maintenance pool flora.

Choose Lighting with Ambiance in Mind
With proper lighting, a regular home pool can be transformed into something straight out of a fantasy or sci-fi novel. Make sure to use colors and lighting that resonate with the theme of the design so as to give a calm and soothing aura during night-time. If you feel fancy, you can utilize mini lights between the plants and bushes to give off a dreamy ambience to your poolside. Consider elements like color, size, brightness, and direction when it comes to choosing and placing lights to create an effect.

Compliment the Natural with the Man-made
Unless you’re going for a chic modern look for your poolside complete with a bar and grill, it’s best to blend the elements of your pool landscaping in such a way that the man-made elements compliment the natural ones. Part of this involves thinking about how you position your features. If you’re using rocks and wooden stumps in the landscaping, for example, position them in a natural organic manner than haphazardly. Proper positioning of the material and elements can help reduce maintenance efforts and costs while also creating a less “manufactured” feeling design.

Keep It Simple
While complex landscaping designs often show the ingenuity of the designers, critics and experts often note that the most attractive and praiseworthy designs are often also very classic. Simple designs allow for saving time and money which can be used for beautifying other elements of your lawn. A minimalistic approach also allows you to make simple customizations to you pool landscape all year round to keep the view refreshing.
 
Feel like having a do-over for your pool after reading this article? Call up Outdoor Perfection at 281-516-1600 for your free consultation today. Our landscapers have decades of experience in lawn and pool landscaping in Houston, and we’d love to help you beautify your home with professional landscaping at a fair price.