Things You'll Need:
- Shrubbery
- Shovel
- Gloves
- Mulch
- Less than $50.00
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Step 1
You can add tile or brick around your pool, buy nice pool furniture or try to make an inviting retreat in your back yard. If you have to look at that pool pump, it really distracts and takes away from the beauty that you have tried to create.
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Step 2
You can go to the expense of installing a fence around the pump but that is probably a few more thousand dollars. If you do install a fence, then you may sit back and look at it and say I think it would look better if there were some landscaping around it.
For very little money, you can hide that unsightly contraption and in a few weeks or months, you will never see it. -
Step 3
Varigated Chinese Privet is one of the best shrubs to use for this project for these reasons. First of all, they are beautiful. The color is a medium to light green with cream varigation throughout the leaves. In late spring they have small cream colored blooms that smell wonderful.
They are extremely fast growing and will grow to about 5 feet tall and 5 feet wide. They are semi evergreen which means they keep some of there leaves in cold weather. Here in the South, they only loose about one third of the leaves in the winter. The branches are very graceful and bellowy. These are very easy to trim and keep the height that you want. Being that this is not a dense shrub, there is no problem with air circulation around your pump.
If you decide that you would like to try these, you would probably only need 4 plants. If you bought them in a 1 gallon nursery container, the price would be between $5- $7.00 each. A 3 gallon size would be around $12.00.
The larger the plant, the quicker the pump would be out of sight.
