One great way to make your hot tub a seamless part of your home is to surround it with full, vibrant plants. In this way, you create what could be considered an outdoor room—an extension of your home’s private spaces. By choosing mature plants, trees, and bushes that are tall enough and thick enough to shield your spa from view, your landscape installation could become a natural privacy feature.

Both garden and structural elements can work to create privacy around your hot tub. If you prefer a minimalistic garden—perhaps for aesthetic reasons or for an ecologically-friendly water-wise design—plant elements can serve as statement pieces alongside a privacy structure, such as a pergola or gazebo or deck overhang. You’ll also have the option of hanging baskets filled with flowers or succulents from your gazebo or overhand, which can surround you as you soak in your spa. Or you could incorporate trellises covered with climbing vines into this structure, which could add yet another layer of shade and privacy.

Even if your home is tucked in close to your neighbor’s, creative landscaping options can provide sufficient privacy while adding character and beauty at the same time. Installing planter boxes high on a fence allows you to plant bushy groundcovers and vines that can extend your fence’s reach. Trees with full, low-hanging foliage can also provide a layer of privacy, though be aware that overhead branches can cause leaves and other debris to fall on your spa cover. Bamboo trees, famed for their ability to rapidly grow to very high heights, can be planted close together, where they’ll quickly become a natural fence on their own.

Once you decide where your hot tub should be placed in your backyard, you can begin to imagine how it will fit within the environment. If you have an existing landscape design that you want to keep intact, you’ll want to consider how different hot tub models would look within that context.

Together, your hot tub and landscape features can blend into the natural environment. In this way, even the areas beyond your property become points of interest. Decide whether you want your hot tub space to feel lush and cozy, with full plants tucked in tight around it, or open and spacious, with small plant features that are easier to contain.

Hot tubs themselves can be enhanced to better complement your landscape. We can help you to understand your options for choosing the right hot tub model and personalizing its look to match your existing landscape.

Outdoor landscape features go beyond plants and flowers to include stone and other materials. Sometimes simplicity in your landscape is best, as it makes way for a peaceful, spacious atmosphere. Lighting can be an important feature in your backyard design, as it helps create a welcoming hot tub experience after the sun goes down. Fragrant flowers and herbaceous plants like lavender and rosemary can introduce another sensory dimension to your home spa.

If you’re interested in creating a backyard environment conducive to socializing and entertaining, a hot tub is the perfect focal point. Your landscape choices can help you embrace this intention. Plan your landscape features in a way that allows for movement and spaces to sit together. Privacy elements and overall aesthetics will also play a role in your yard’s cozy, welcoming atmosphere.