Hot Tub Landscaping

A hot tub is one of the most luxurious additions that you can make to your backyard. While the hot tub itself is a wonderful addition to your yard, with the right landscaping, you can enhance your hot tub experience and relaxation with soothing sights and aromas. If you already have a hot tub in your backyard, or plan to have one installed, consider how landscaping would increase your enjoyment. 

Not Only Visual Appeal

Well-chosen hot tub landscaping not only adds great looks to the area around your tub, but can serve to enhance your privacy as well. The right plantings, such as dense bamboo, can provide a natural curtain that blocks the neighbors view of your relaxation time as well as help you to forget your own surroundings. Other options would be a lattice fence or trellis with climbing vines or even dense shrubs.

Aromatherapy
 
There is a huge market nowadays for aromatherapy candles, essential oils for the bath, perfumes and sprays of all sorts in order to help soothe people with scents. However, for your relaxation all you need is your hot tub and proper landscaping to give you some relaxing smells while you're soaking. For instance, lavender or roses near your hot tub will fill the air with the scents of the blossoms, allowing you to breathe in subtle flowery scents while you're in your tub.

Create a Theme

When you're working on your hot tub landscaping project, try to start with a theme in mind, both to create a final, unified look as well as to narrow down the number of plants you have to choose from. For instance, an Asian theme will call for bamboo and other appropriate plants, while an English country theme might have rose trellises and colorful, potted plants. When planning your ultimate hot tub landscaping project, be sure to keep an eye out for not only greenery, but flowers that will add color as well as lush plant life to whatever theme you choose. Above all, look towards your hot tub landscaping project as a way to enhance the fun and relaxation of your hot tub, and you'll be sure to hit on something spectacular.

A Few Cautions

Avoid thorny plants or fruit trees near your hot tub. You wouldn't want to step on a sharp thorn in your bare feet and fruit trees could attract bees.