Why buy delivered plants?
Here’s 6 quick reasons from the top of our head.
Firstly consider your orientation to the sun you want to have the lower angle winter sun warming the pool so the backdrop plants should be on the southern side of the pool.
Secondly, select the theme and stick with it. In warmer zones, pools are tropical fixtures so leafy plants reinforce the theme. Use Pandanus, Giant Strelitzia, Cordylines, Crotons and Gingers. Southern zones may be more formally styled so go with clipped hedges and feature trees with understorey grasses. Think Lilly Pilly, evergreen trees and Agapanthus species. Just make sure your plants don’t drop leaves constantly. Fine leaves are easily captured by skimmers but if they sink and vacuuming is irregular, it looks untidy. Avoid flowering trees due to the heavy fall in the season, unless you like the appearance of floaters and consider it a small seasonal inconvenience. Don’t mix themes! Avoid fine leaves like Melaleuca.
Next, think about the focal points when viewed from different angles and place your wow plants there. Install up-lights for night appeal. Keep the harmony, simplicity and repetition thing going in the back of your mind.
The ground becomes saturated, the exchange of gasses (carbon dioxide and oxygen) is compromised, roots die and the foliage cant get enough nutrients (or surprisingly water) from the soil. Microbes, so necessary for plant health, can't survive and so the spiral of death begins.
Any problems with pool gardening relate to an excess of water rather than chlorine or salt levels.
Chlorine levels of about 2ppm necessary to eliminate bacteria in the average pool are way below the 20,000ppm found in the ocean. The splashing of chlorinated water may damage plants with thin leaves.
Salt may become a problem for plants that are sensitive to high levels. General pool salt levels should be about 3000ppm whereas salt intolerance may start to be a problem at 2000ppm. You can use plants that thrive in coastal locations, ones that have grey foliage, furry or leathery leaves resistant to salt spray. Included plants are Coastal Banksia, Westringia, Agave, Coprosma, Metrosideros, Myoporium, Scaveolea, Strelitzia, Bougainvillea and Frangipani.
If you think your plants are being slowly killed by pool water, install a strip drain around the perimeter and run this to an approved waste.
Check the soil moisture level to see how wet it is throughout the daily and monthly cycles before and after strip drain installation. When it comes to planting requirements, just moist is just right ( the exception being succulents)!
In considerations about poolside plantings, think about the maintenance issues- do the plants have small leaves which continually drop and clog the filter? Are the plants deciduous, losing all leaves in Autumn? Will the larger plants have destructive roots? Melaleucas, Ficus and bamboos should not be planted near pools. Palms may damage piping, pool coping and even the shell if insufficient room is provided for trunk and root expansion.
Here are our plant choices for different landscape styles-
Here’s 6 quick reasons from the top of our head.
We sell plants by the pack, because when you buy 10 plants of one variety it’s quicker to pick and pack - saving us time and you money. When you buy from us, you’re effectively cutting out the wholesale and retail margin, allowing us to sell a premium plant for a fraction of the retail cost.
With best customer service team in the plant game, we have earned a 5 star reputation from independent feedback platform Feefo. We are realistic - sometimes things go wrong but we work hard to resolve it, even when it is not our fault.
Growing plants can be a bit daunting but with a bit of expert help you can grow a green thumb. Our phone number is front and centre because we are here to help!
Younger plants have a tendency to adjust in a new environment more rapidly than larger plants.
Digging holes is not that much fun! The good news is our plants require far less effort to plant for one simple reason - the holes are smaller.
Quality is important to us - if we wouldn’t buy it ourselves, we won’t send it to you.
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