Pool landscaping

Hi all,

After some suggestions to plant along my pool edge. I’m after something leafy to break up the hardwood fence. Doesn’t grow any bigger than the height of the fence. Garden bed is only about 40cm wide so can’t have massive root system. It is full shade in winter and a 50:50 mix of shade and sun in summer.

Any help would be great thanks!

 

Is it a salt water pool or other? If salt, and kids splashing around you need salt-tolerant plants.

 

Yeah salt water. I was told the concentrations in salt water pools aren’t enough to affect plants. If you’re worried just give the garden a quick hose after swimming

 

Don't go with Lilly Pillies!!!

We did, based on a landscape designer recommendation (and she has a pool)..

Great privacy barrier but those little pink bellies drive me crazy

 

@kierank what a bun steer that was! Sometimes you wonder. I’m looking for something with big green leaves that doesn’t drop **** everywhere.

 

My landscaper put in a row of bay trees and a type of grass at the bottom. The bay trees don’t lose many leaves. We also have a ficus vine on another wall.

 

Paint and some artwork wont drop any leaves and berries into your pool. They wont attract pooping birds either.

 

In our pool, the worst offender from the pooping bird brigade is wild ducks.

I believe they are attracted to the water, not our trees.

I suppose we could empty the pool to stop them swimming in it .

We use a product called Duck Off.

When I sometimes have to go out and chase the ducks away, the wife says that my D sounds like a F .

 

You can eat them raw as a berry that has a slight tart taste, when ripe, or better still make jam out of them.

 

Duck a L'Orange

 

Go for a tropical theme, a couple of small palms like cycid or japanese sago which give a dramatic prehistoric look.
Aloe Agave and Yucca are heat lovers that require little maintenance .
Canna has a beautiful red flower also likes sun and heat .

 

Great thanks! I was thinking possibly agavea and yucca. Can you keep yucca small or do they get massive?

Same with the palms can you keep them under control? I’ve had some bad experiences with palms!

 

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Doc you seem quite scarred from that bad palm experience?
The palms mentioned are considered small but if worried you could leave them in the pot inground or in large pots above ground.

Either way install a drip irrigation system, as its the only legal way to water (between 10 am& 4pm) .

 

Get a black cat outline shape - Bunnings. Ducks are stupid and think its a real cat. Our actual black cat occasionally gets spooked by it and falls into the pool. Worth every cent

 

I prefer a high-powered rifle, with scope and mag .

 

If you are in NSW, Just remember that they have to be 900mm in a arc from the top of the fence otherwise the pool inspector will issue a notice to remove as they are inside the Non Climbable zone.

My neighbour had to remove 3 Potted wispy little salt bushes, the pool toy box and on the outside a lemon tree which was so old it had spikes.

 

You could do a lot of things with that space

For example, 4 or 5 of these trellises across the top half, with a pool cover underneath....

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or you could just put some feature pots along the fence and plant azaleas or hyndrangeas or similar....

 

We planted little gem magnolias. Shallow roots and skinny and all they drop is the flowers, very tidily.