You’ve spent time and effort to choose the perfect swimming pool, and now you’re looking to upgrade or update your backyard and turn it into more of a swim oasis for friends and family, right? Step back and consider that the landscaping of your outdoor living space and pool area are crucial aspects to the entire swimming pool aesthetics. Having a shaded area around your pool or deck is a great way to escape from the rays of the sun, but you need to choose trees and shrubs with care as they can grow too large and the roots could damage the swimming pool infrastructure and they could also drop leaves and twigs into the pool making it harder to keep clean. Ask your Memphis, Tennessee swimming pool contractor for advice and suggestions on the best trees for planting in your outdoor living space.
You’ll want to find trees that offer both privacy and shade without the potential to harm your pool.
Here is a tree primer from the swimming pool contractors at Advanced Pool Care along with practical tips on the types of shrubbery and trees to place around your swimming pool:
- Japanese maple trees have a medium root system and are hardy plants. The Japanese maples come in myriad shapes, colors and sizes. They are large enough to provide good shade but with roots shallow enough to avoid pool or plumbing problems down the road. These trees also require little clean up.
- A flowering cherry tree is a mid-size tree that offers beauty to your outdoor living area. These trees come in numerous varieties and feature fragrant blooms of white, pink or purple. Their roots are shallow and the flowering cherry is a hardy tree that grows in almost any climate in the United States. These trees can reach heights of 40 feet.
- Shrubbery can be found in many varieties and lend interest to your landscaping design. It can be used to enhance the ambiance of your swimming pool fence as well as serve as both a privacy hedge or wind break. Any time you can plant something that lends both beauty and help slow the evaporation of your pool water, it’s something to consider for your landscape design.
- Mesquite trees, which thrive in the desert, are tolerate of drought, are adaptable and require little clean up. Mesquite trees come in many sizes and colors and thrive in full sun. These shade trees have a shallow root system making them a good choice for around your swimming pool. Some of the trees in this variety can reach heights of up to 25 feet and are very attractive to birds.
Landscaping that offers both practicality and beauty are possible!
