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Q&A: Plants for Pool Area
National Gardening Association
Question: What easy care plants would do well around a southern
California outdoor swimming pool?
Answer: Plants chosen to landscape swimming pool areas should meet two requirements. Branches, foliage, and flowers should be smooth (not bristly, prickly, sharp or thorny). And the plants should be as litter-free as possible, so as not to drop leaves, fruits, etc. in or around the pool. Trees meeting these requirements include palms, ensete (banana), ficus and Firmiana simplex (Chinese parasol tree). Shrub considerations include camellia, Fatsia japonica, juniper, and Viburnum davidii. Hope the above suggestions help you provide the backbone for your landscaping project. You can fill in around the trees and shrubs with perennials such as agapanthus, lavender, armeria, canna, coreopsis, Kniphofia uvaria and strelitzia if you'd like some splashes of color.
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Posted Comments:
10-09-2008 16:34
Pat wrote:
Plants around pools
Firmiana simplex (Chinese parasol tree) Not only does this tree drop every leaf in the fall. The tree also blooms and drops the spent blossoms and the stalks too.
10-09-2008 10:17
Christina wrote:
Shrubs around pools
I own an AZ. pool company and we clean pools all day. Palm trees are only good if you are diligent about trimming them. All palms bloom and those blooms will destroy your water costing more to clean up than the cost of trimming early.
10-09-2008 07:28
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Salt water pools
If your pool is a salt water pool be sure the plants are salt tolarant.
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