Poolscaping: Gardening and Landscaping Around Your Swimming Pool and Spa

"Poolscaping" is a one-of-a-kind handbook overflowing with inspiring ideas and practical advice on how to make your swimming pool the lovely, welcoming centerpiece of your property, whether you are installing a new pool or renovating an existing one. You'll learn how to choose the best spot for the pool and how to design or refurbish the deck and edging that surround it. And you'll find great ideas for dramatic pool lighting (including underwater options); safe and attractive fencing; and spas, furniture, pergolas, and pool houses. Finally, "Poolscaping "helps you choose the best poolside plants for your landscaping, with a focus on flowers, vines, and shrubs that are low-maintenance and attractive throughout the swimming season.

“Diving into Catriona Tudor Erler's book on dressing up your pool is cool. - Arizona Republic A swimming pool can be more than a big blue hole … Poolscaping helps readers turn it into a retreat. - Atlanta Journal-Constitution … a wealth of ideas on how to make the swimming pool a backyard showpiece. - Phoenix Home & Garden … encourages an appealing integration of water and land. - Publishers Weekly Excellent photographs give the book a can't-put-it-down quality. - Washington Post … rich with photos for inspiration, but there are plenty of specifics, such as plant recommendations, how-to instructions and tips for dealing with challenges. - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel [T]his book will inspire you to create a design that meets your needs for both practicality and beauty. - The American Gardener From the latest trends to advice on plantings, waterfalls and fountains, Poolscaping will help add some splash to your summer. - Maryland Washington Virginia Home & Design”

"Diving into Catriona Tudor Erler's book on dressing up your pool is cool."

--Arizona Republic

"A swimming pool can be more than a big blue hole ... Poolscaping helps readers turn it into a retreat."

-- Atlanta Journal-Constitution

" ... a wealth of ideas on how to make the swimming pool a backyard showpiece."

-- Phoenix Home & Garden

"... encourages an appealing integration of water and land."

-- Publishers Weekly

"Excellent photographs give the book a can't-put-it-down quality."

-- Washington Post

"... rich with photos for inspiration, but there are plenty of specifics, such as plant recommendations, how-to instructions and tips for dealing with challenges."

-- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"[T]his book will inspire you to create a design that meets your needs for both practicality and beauty." -- The American Gardener

"From the latest trends to advice on plantings, waterfalls and fountains, Poolscaping will help add some splash to your summer."

-- Maryland Washington Virginia Home & Design

Catriona Tudor Erler is an internationally recognized garden writer, photographer, and speaker. She is the author of seven garden books as well as numerous articles for publications such as "Architectural Digest" and "Southern Accents," Her photographs have been published in books, magazines, and newspapers in both the United States and Great Britain. She also specializes in adapting British gardening books for American audiences, editing them to reflect the American vernacular, climate zones, and plant selections.
Catriona gardens with her husband and twin sons in Vienna, Virginia. A forme

Make Your Pool into a Garden Oasis Imagine transforming the swimming pool area of your backyard into a Tuscan paradise, with a broad terrace of terra-cotta tiles and beautiful clay pots spilling with flowering plants. Or maybe you'd prefer a "zero-entry" pool that lets you wade into the water as if you were wading into the surf at the beach. Poolscaping is a one-of-a-kind handbook that overflows with inspiring ideas and practical advice on how to landscape around your swimming pool and create your own private resort. For instance, why settle for spotlights when you could install fiber-optic lighting around the pool? If everyone else on the block has a diving board, why not install a waterfall? And admit it - you'd really like a spa next to your pool. Poolscaping shows you how you can design and build a luxurious paradise that suits all of your needs, right in your own backyard.

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