My wife and I are planning on improving the landscaping around our pool. We'd love to have a screen of 15 Crape Myrtles ringing the periphery, a bit beyond our pool fence. Most would be 20-30 ft away -- but a few would be as close as ~15 ft from the pool.
The pool is already overshadowed by mature Red Maple and Tulip Poplar trees. So our skimmers and Polaris are no strangers to leaves and seeds. But I'm slightly worried that the Crape Myrtles might produce an unmanageable amount of debris — they even showed up on some internet list of "plants that you should never have near your pool"
. So I'm pausing and seeking the collective TFP wisdom: has anyone had a particularly negative (or positive!) experience?
We really like the idea of Crape Myrtles: for their long-lived flowers, dense screen, and rapid growth. But before I place the order... is this a colossally bad idea?!
CYA later!
Sampo
The pool is already overshadowed by mature Red Maple and Tulip Poplar trees. So our skimmers and Polaris are no strangers to leaves and seeds. But I'm slightly worried that the Crape Myrtles might produce an unmanageable amount of debris — they even showed up on some internet list of "plants that you should never have near your pool"
. So I'm pausing and seeking the collective TFP wisdom: has anyone had a particularly negative (or positive!) experience?We really like the idea of Crape Myrtles: for their long-lived flowers, dense screen, and rapid growth. But before I place the order... is this a colossally bad idea?!
CYA later!
Sampo
