The “Pool Garden” Is Finished!

Last year, I started the “pool garden” that sits on top of my rock wall. The idea is to look out of my above ground pool and see this beautiful tropical garden. Well, since I live in the Northeast, I’m going to have to get creative.

Note the name of this post “My Pool Garden is Finally Finished”. It has been a few years and I just realized gardens are
“never finished”. Plants die, plants get moved, plants get added, so basically every garden is a “work in progress”. It’s like you’re living room. If you don’t like where something is, you move it. Same for gardening. Granted some plants don’t like to be moved, so always check it out. Currently the “pool garden” is full of multicolored lilies. As I have said in other posts, lilies are dependable, they die down to the ground, get bigger every year, and last a good part of the Summer. The bugs or rabbits couldn’t care less about them and they put a beautiful show of color on Summer through Fall. I had to get rid of the Hibiscus because every year bugs were eating them and I was getting tired of spraying them and getting aggravated.

I started by satisfying my husband’s thing for grasses. We planted a row of tall, swaying grass along the back border.

I knew I had to have perennial Hibiscus, which would give that tropical look, and come back year after year. I could only find pink, red and pink/white varieties.

Then I planted Tritoma (Red Hot Poker). I added some Orange Pekoe Crocosmia. Both are an orange/yellow color. Very tropical.

I had to have beautiful lilies in all different tropical colors.

I also planted my favorite Coneflower’s which also come in loads of tropical colors. They will get bigger over the years, and are beautiful for cut flowers.

For annuals and added color, this year I got some great Hibiscus in tropical colors in 4″ pots which were very reasonable, so I planted all along the front edge of garden.

As every year, I put my favorite “Angel Wing” Begonias in my pedestal planters all over the yard.

I’m pretty happy the way it turned out, and are sure we will enjoy for years to come.