Pool Scaping

by Erler, Catriona Tudor

• ISBN13: 9781580173865
• ISBN10: 1580173861
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-15
• Publisher: Storey Books

Summary

Why settle for a swimming pool that is a big blue box in your backyard when you could have an oasis, complete with dramatic rock formations and a waterfall? Or a secluded tropical pleasure garden concealed behind an attractive stone wall. Or perhaps a natural-looking pool screened from the road by flowering hedges. As comprehensive as it is unique, Poolscaping suggests attractive ways to enclose your pool; addresses the most popular of all swimming pool accessories, the spa and hot tub; and provides the kind of advice pool owners appreciate -- for example, which poolside plants look attractive but won't shed leaves into the water. Poolscaping shows you how to make an ordinary backyard pool the centerpiece of your property -- and the showpiece of your neighborhood. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Catriona Tudor Erler is an internationally recognized garden writer, photographer, and speaker and the author of eight gardening books. Her numerous articles have appeared in such publications as Architectural Digest and Southern Accents. Erler gardens with her husband and twin sons in Virginia

Table of Contents

In, Out, and About Your Pool	9	(29)
Pool Decking and Coping	29	(16)
Enclosing the Pool	45	(24)
Poolscape Plantings	69	(20)
Planters and Containers	89	(16)
The Pool at Night	105	(26)
Waterfalls and Fountains	131	(12)
Structures and Furniture	143	(20)
Spas and Hot Tubs	163	(10)
Favorite Poolside Plants	173	(26)
Index	199