Swimming pool with a Mediterranean touch
This spacious garden design in a Mediterranean style is limited to the essentials and therefore has an enormous impact. The unobstructed view of the lake in the distance and the swimming pool close by make water the central element. A spacious lawn surrounds the swimming pool and is accompanied by low planting. The swimming pool appears enclosed and is not lost in the space.
Structure and visual relationship
The light-coloured paving is broken up by dark edging and dark, polished stone benches, which also act as a design element in their own right. They stagger the pool area and form a boundary between the seating area, pool and lawn. Two trees frame the seating area: the impressively flowering magnolia on one side and the shady plane tree on the other. The shape of the plane tree’s roof allows a view from the house above, creating a visual relationship with the lake.
Loose planting
The planting areas are basically planted gravel areas and are therefore not completely green. This creates a holiday atmosphere with a Mediterranean touch. However, the choice of plants also helps to emphasise the modern garden design. The existing plant combination of romantic boxwoods and roses creates a transition to the newly designed part of the garden and is combined there with warmth-loving and partly silvery-leaved perennials.
Planting
Trees
- Magnolia (magnolia)
- Platanus hispanica (maple-leaved plane tree, roof form)
Woody plants
- Buxus sempervirens (box globes)
- Perovskia ‚Blue Spirit‘ (blue rue)
- Rosa ‚Aspirin‘ (ground cover rose)
Perennials
- Yucca filamentosa (palm lily)
- Pennisetum alopecuroides ‚Hamelin‘ (lamp cleaner grass)
- Alchemilla mollis (lady’s mantle)
- Stachys byzantina (Wooly Willow)
- Nepeta faassenii (catnip)
Materials
- Polished basalt blocks (benches)
- Basalt kerbstones/wide kerbs (edging)
Execution / Horticulture
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