I was on the Ehousehub Twitter this morning and I came across some really cool home improvement blog posts. One in particular was the home improvement blog post, Effective swimming Pool Landscape Design Tips . Reading the post inspired me to go and take a video of my own pool landscaping. Now I did not do our swimming pool landscape design, since we only bought our current home less than three years ago. However, I have worked as a landscape contractor, so I do know that our landscaping, especially around the pool is pretty nice.
The Plants are spaced very nicely, and there seems to be something blooming at all times of the usuable swimming pool season. I think it is really important that when you are out enjoying the pool, you can enjoy the natural surroundings.
Since our pool is located in a very remote area, we don’t require a privacy hedge like many pool owners might desire. I have seen many pools that are surrounded by a tall hedge of arbs or bushes. Ours is just surrounded by our yard, which is then surrounded by fields.
When doing your swimming pool landscaping, as with most landscaping, keep in mind that your mature landscape design will not reach its maximum growth for 2-3 years, so be sure that plants are given ample space to grow. Most landscape contractors have landscape design software that allows them to put in many different arrangements of plants to see what the landscape design will look like when all the plants have reached their maximum growth. This also will allow you to see what a variety of landscape designs will look like around your swimming pool.
Questions to ask your Swimming Pool Landscape Contractor
How many years until the plants mature?
Are the plants hardy enough to withstand pool chemicals?
Will there be plants blooming for the entire swimming pool season?
The Garden Groom my cordless Black and Decker hedge trimmer is not. It’s a far better than the corded hedge trimmer I had been using prior to getting the cordless hedge trimmer for Christmas this past Christmas. Last year I must have cut a good half dozen cords while prunning my hedges with the old corded hedge trimmer.
When I first saw the Garden Groom, I instantly fell in love with it. Sure it has a cord, but it is nearly impossible to cut your cord with the Garden Groom..watch the video on Seentontvexpress by clicking the Garden Groom link at the beginning of the post and you will be amazed. Sure you could go out and buy a gas trimmer or a battery powered hedge trimmer like I got fro Christmas, but it still wouldn’t suck up all the trimmings…way cool..
I was thinking about buying a some tools for the yard, and I was thinking about keeping track of all the projects that I have going on around the house. I was going to start a new blog, but we have had ehousehub as a site since 2006, and it has been doing nothing. So I thought instead of coming up with a totally new site, why not put a blog on the site and use it as my home improvement web blog.
What will be found on the Ehousehub blog?
Swimming pool maintenance info
lawn maintenance info
landscape info
carpentry info
project planning
product reviews
tools sale info
coupons
home improvement videos of me clutzing about.
anthing to do with projects that might be accomplished around the home.
Well that is about it for the first inaugral post on the new ehousehub.com home improvement blog.
