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tropical pool landscaping, in Corpus
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Posted by
DtBelinda1 Texas (
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Tue, May 1, 12 at 23:05
| I recently built a pool and am ready to landscape it. My backyard gets full sun. Getting ready to pull all oleanders. Looking for tropical plants that are freeze hardy. Do have hibiscis, crype myrtle, ixora, and pygmy date. Love coloring tropicals. Appreciate your help! |
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RE: tropical pool landscaping, in Corpus
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| Around a pool, you need plants that do not loose their leavers, like bird of of paradise, blood bananas, daylilies, gerber dasies, and dark leaf elephant ears. If you are ever in Rockport come by my house you can see all the diffrent types of plants that do well in the sun. Of course I would have a few plumeria, but keep them in 5 gallon pots so you can bring them in in the winter. Most of my plants like some shade, but as your sun plants get older they shade the smaller plants, in the hot afternoon. Barbra |
RE: tropical pool landscaping, in Corpus
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- Posted by jcalhoun 8b Mobile County AL (My Page) on
Thu, May 31, 12 at 13:50
| Palmetto palms are native to the Gulf Coast. How big can the plants get? |
RE: tropical pool landscaping, in Corpus
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- Posted by natal Louisiana 8b (My Page) on
Fri, Jun 1, 12 at 11:57
RE: tropical pool landscaping, in Corpus
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Chlorine pools and salt water pools are the same thing. The salt water pool just uses a generator to make chlorine out of the raw salt. Chlorine comes from salt.
Around my pool with a salt water generator, I have banana, ginger, iris,canna lily, lavendar, rosemary, ornamental grass, passion flower,jasmine, morning glory, moonflowers, and a huge Charleston Grey watermelon vine at the present. I'm on the Florida Gulf Coast. |
RE: tropical pool landscaping, in Corpus
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- Posted by natal Louisiana 8b (My Page) on
Mon, Jun 4, 12 at 14:24
| Angela, so the plant selection would be the same for both? I don't have a pool, but my nephew is installing a saltwater pool and was asking for plant information. I didn't have a clue. |
RE: tropical pool landscaping, in Corpus
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| Hi natal! Yes. You can plant exactly the same things. Many people think that salt pools are different, but that salt is simply turned into chlorine by the generator. :) |
RE: tropical pool landscaping, in Corpus
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- Posted by natal Louisiana 8b (My Page) on
Tue, Jun 5, 12 at 13:21
| Angela, thanks. I'll pass that along. |
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