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Ideas For Landscaping Around Hot Tubs - Attractive Designs

Expert Author: Jasmine Leclair | Submitted: 2008-04-20 | Word Count: 495 words | Views: 168 view(s)
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How does landscaping with a hot tub differ from landscaping without one? It could very well be higher than the rest of your yard. Throwing on a pile of mulch and calling it a day is always an option, but your landscaping will look as cheap as it cost.

Ideas for landscaping around hot tubs don't have to be complicated to look nice. The first option is to simply purchase some nice looking planters or pots and some of your favorite shrubs and flowers to surround the hot tub. I like to take two larger pots and place one on each side of the steps. Then I plant two narrow finely manicured trees that will never grow out of the pot or become too tall. This frames the entrance to your hot tub making it inviting and beautiful.

When it comes to the area around your hot tub, it's important to have landscaping ideas for privacy. One way to landscape around your hot tub, with privacy in mind, is a screened in gazebo. A gazebo will help to make the hot tub the focal point of your backyard, while allowing you to comfortably use your hot tub in rainy weather. To make it look nice, you can add a couple of simple planter boxes around the outside of the gazebo. If you're not a gardener, you could choose to plant some low maintenance silk flowers instead.

It would be virtually impossible to enumerate all the possible ideas for landscaping around hot tubs. Let us concentrate here on an Asian themed hot tub that would be a wonderful addition to a yard. A walkway with plants lightly draped over it offers a combination of shade and sunshine and provides an Asian atmosphere as well. You can also rim the tub with cedar planters filled with trees and other plantings appropriate for the weather in your area. That will give your hot tub the sense of permanence one gets with in-ground tubs.

The ultimate landscaped hot tub would be an in ground hot tub next to an in ground swimming pool. A nice compliment to the beauty of the hot tub and pool would be with a little tropical jungle. Again just take some attractive flowerpots and place them in two clusters of 3 because odd numbers always look better. If you use three different sizes for each cluster this will create a terraced look. Using hibiscus flowers, a small palm bush that won't grow too large and some ivy that will naturally flow down the pots creating a tropical area.

There are so many ideas for landscaping around hot tubs that this only touches on the many possibilities. However whenever landscaping around a hot tub you must remember to still allow for the drain of the hot tub to be open. You wouldn't want to flood all your lovely landscaping while refilling the hot tub. Remember that you can be as creative as you want. Make it your own backyard oasis.

When it comes to the area around your hot tub, it's important to have landscaping ideas for privacy. One way to landscape around your hot tub, with privacy in mind, is a screened in gazebo. Building a pergola creates a pattern of shade and sun and develops the Asian look. To enhance the beauty of the hot tub, it would be ideal to have tropical plants surrounding the area to create a little jungle.

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