Your backyard’s luxury pool is the focal point of your home outdoors. But when you party, enjoy and get the most out of your outdoor living space, it can’t be your only outdoor feature. A pool is a part of a larger landscape design that considers how you spend your time or how you hope to spend it.
After the pandemic, many of us reassess our homes’ inside and outside functionality. And recognizing that they can be so much more to make it more fascinating. Similarly, your pool area is no different because adding complimenting landscaping can give your home pool the feel of an exact retreat and can be much more. You want to avoid plants while designing pool landscaping and have more options to improve the area without requiring more work.
Additionally, to increase the amount of time you can spend in the pool area, we like to look beyond the limits of softscape (shrubs, perennials, and annuals) and integrate elements like stone outcroppings, pergolas, rock features, and lighting. For your Dubai property, here are the top five poolside landscaping elements.
Select Mess-Free Plants
It is more of a pain than a pleasure to have flowering shrubs that lose their buds and plants with foliage that changes color throughout the growing season. Spending time cleaning pool waste from plants is the last thing you want to do. Therefore, you should avoid bushes like crepe myrtles and azaleas. Choosing shrubs like boxwoods and other evergreen species may reduce maintenance and cleanup on your landscaping.
Size Matters: Poolside Plants with Fast or Slow Growth
You can go for fast-growing evergreens if you want to create natural screening to provide privacy around your pool. Arborvitae is a perennial plant that offers year-round greenery if you want more excellent protection and natural plant-based screening. Grasses are another choice, but you’ll have to deal with trimming them back in the fall or early spring. And there’s a time when they’re not as beautiful as you wait for new growth to fill in.
Moreover, it is essential to consult Garden Design companies in Dubai about plant management and development trends before choosing the area around your pool.
Stone Accents and Rock Outcroppings
As we know, stones don’t need water to get cleaned. So, no worry about trimming them or how they look during summers. Even stones are natural materials that any disease or pests won’t damage. But stone’s beauty and structural soundness go beyond its inherent low-maintenance nature. Rock adds depth, texture, and visual interest to a landscape around a pool.
Additionally, since two pieces of natural stone are always unique, you can make dynamic outcroppings. Even practically use a stone to make seating appear natural and mix in with the surrounding landscape.
Landscape and Pool Lighting
Landscape and pool lighting allow you to spend more time in your outdoor home. Pool Lightening adds architectural character by illuminating your house, trees, and leisure areas. Especially beside a pool, landscape lighting is an important safety measure. Try lighting up meeting areas and sidewalks along with pool lighting.
Lighting can either liven up an outdoor setting or cheapen it if not properly constructed. Security, how you use the space, and characteristics to emphasize that will increase visual appeal are all considered in custom-designed landscape lighting. Moreover, avoid applying lightning by yourself as it won’t give the artistic result as experts will do.
Conclusion
Afnan Gardens is a landscaping company providing maintenance and design services for soft and hard landscaping in UAE. Contact us if you wish to make your outdoor space more creative; we are here to help you.
