Creating Unique Pool Landscaping with Plants

When incorporating swimming pool designs and landscaping ideas for around the pool the overall final design is as important as every individual part. Creating a lush, full landscape around a minimalist pool may clash and result in a displeasing finished project. Contrast in design can be great when executed well, but should be determined before the project begins to ensure there is intention on selecting the different features.

Unique landscaping design ideas all start with the space you have to work with. By being aware of the landscape around your pool you can truly begin to understand the complete potential of your backyard. Some people go for a distinct look, like minimalism, which informs many of the design decisions and design elements that go into the final landscape plan. These ideas will work together in order to achieve the finished ambiance. Others may look for a completely unique design by incorporating different elements from different styles of design. This includes the plants you select, the hardscapes you install, paths, fencing, trees, water features, outdoor living spaces, yard landscaping, and more.

Interesting Pool Landscaping Ideas

Creating a Privacy Fence with Plants

Swimming pools can be both a fun communal activity, as well as a private space to relax. Sometimes with backyard landscaping a tall fence can become an eyesore when compared to the rest of the landscaping design. By lining your fence with tall plants the fence disappears and becomes a part of the landscape or garden. Your yard will no longer feel boxed in, but you’re not compromising on privacy. Tall shrubs, hedges, and other dense plants make for excellent backyard plants that double as a living fence.

Some may opt to even replace their fence entirely with plants to create a more free-flowing landscape that still provides more than enough privacy. A living fence is usually more dense and the plants are planted closer together in the backyard in order to maximize privacy. Depending on where you live there may be ordinances about fencing, so a backyard privacy fence that is incorporated into the landscape works perfectly.

Even if you’re not looking to create a living fence in your yard, the design of the fence can have a bigger impact on the overall feel of the landscape than most people realize. Pay attention to the pool landscaping, yard, and garden when selecting a fence.

Hardscape Design Ideas Around the Pool

There are endless landscaping ideas that can make your backyard more unique, but to really tie your entire backyard, pool, lawn, and garden together, hardscapes may be the answer. With dedicated areas connected by paths, decks, patios, and other structures you can seamlessly connect different areas of your yard. Creating a stone pathway around the pool creates easy access to all areas around the pool landscaping. You can mix landscaping with hardscapes by incorporating grass and other plants into the hardscapes. By spacing out stones in a pathway or leaving gaps between brick pavers you can lay grass out and have greenery mixed in with your stones to create a balanced look between the soft plant life and the hard stones. Rock walls are also a great landscaping edition to pools, provide interesting elevation and can even act as a retaining wall. Having a water feature like a waterfall coming off a rock wall is a gorgeous way to incorporate the rock wall into the pool.

A Shaded Backyard Pool

A swimming pool can transform a yard into a calming and relaxing oasis. One of our favorite ideas to bring together the design of your backyard pool landscape is to create a shaded area to relax in. This can mean having a shaded structure alongside the pool, over the pool, or even incorporating the garden landscaping by planting tall plants that will provide shade directly over the pool.

Landscaping ideas can spark inspiration and innovation; instead of planting a structure, one may plant trees or something smaller that is tall and creates a cover. A trellis or pergola may extend over the shallow end of the pool and have vines growing along it to block out a majority of the direct sunlight. Not only does a shaded structure create shade in the pool, but it can create additional space to rest, adding to the landscaping and even being the centerpiece of the backyard.

For a more minimalist landscaping approach, a canopy can be added above the pool to shade the area without adding too many large plants or a large structure right next to the pool.

Simple & Minimalist Pools

A longtime popular approach to creating interesting, modern landscaping is the minimalist approach. When you incorporate streamlined design elements into the landscaping around a swimming pool there is less visual clutter.

One could place stone all around the pool eliminating plants and gardens nearby. A minimalist pool surrounded by hardscape landscaping can be a somewhat cold feeling. By placing pavers a couple of inches apart you can connect the pool with the backyard landscaping. Low-cut grass can be planted between the pavers creating a creative grid effect, and can seamlessly transition into the backyard lawn.

Continuing with the minimalist landscaping ideas, plants that require minimal care can be selected. These plants can vary depending on how you’re hoping the final landscaping design looks. If you’re interested in maintaining the minimalist pool landscaping you can select easy-to-care-for plants that are simple and won’t clutter your garden area. You also can incorporate some unique plants to add a pop of color, which can be easily swapped out to refresh the backyard landscape. This gives you the chance to have minimalist landscaping but gives you room to play with your gardens and plants.

Wild & Tropical Landscaping

Somewhat opposite of minimalist landscaping is more tropical landscaping or jungle landscaping. This can be achieved in multiple ways, but by incorporating certain plants into the landscaping you can feel transported into another place. This is especially true in backyards with a pool where the beautiful rippling water both visually sets the mood and creates calming sounds. Depending on the climate you live in, palm trees can have a tremendous impact pulling together the tropic design.

Plants with large leaves like palms can turn your pool landscaping into a tropical oasis. By incorporating many different types of plants in your garden the landscaping may have a wild, natural style that feels more like a wild tropical island or a jungle. Leaning into the jungle theme

Planting bird of paradise or other plants with large leaves alongside vines and other lush plants near the pool helps to separate this relaxing recreational area from the world outside of your backyard. Selecting these plants to go around your pool will largely be determined by the region of the country you live in, but this effect can be achieved in most areas of the United States.

Planting Low Maintenance Greenery

When it comes to creating a beautiful and unique pool landscape sometimes the final product can be difficult to maintain. With a large collection of plants, water features, pathways, grass, and the pool itself your backyard may require more time and effort than you’re looking to spend. By selecting low-maintenance plants for parts of the landscape you are effectively reducing the time required to maintain the backyard. This not only will save you time and money but will help to ensure even when you get busy and your backyard doesn’t get the full amount of attention it needs your plants will continue to thrive.

Landscaping Ideas & Consultations

We work closely with our clients throughout the entire design process to ensure that the final design and landscaping plan is exactly what they’re looking for. When we first meet with a client we visit their property to take notes and survey the land. Once we have a good idea of what you’re looking for our award-winning design team begins to work. After some touchpoints to make sure we’re on the right track, we create a full 3d model and invite you to experience your backyard through our detailed plans.

Ciminellos – Backyard Landscaping Experts

With forty years of experience handling home landscaping, Ciminello’s has perfected our craft and is proud to execute every job we do with professionalism and our own high standards. With a team of award-winning designers, Ciminello does not only walk our clients through the entire design experience, but we use their helpful feedback to tailor the design plans in order to surpass expectations. With our massive 3,000-square-foot showroom, we display many of the materials and products we use to give our clients an opportunity to see and feel the products up close before beginning the renovation. With a multitude of different projects in our portfolio, Ciminello’s can provide the landscaping experience of your dreams within the scope of your price point. To learn more and schedule a consultation for our pool landscaping services call our offices and make an appointment.

Landscaping Ideas For Swimming Pools