If the weather does not permit enjoyment of this home’s outside swimming pool, the homeowner and any guests are able to move the party inside and take advantage of a heated indoor swimming pool and solarium.
Assisting with its design, the homeowner’s sister states that they wanted an “organized jungle.” The solarium has a desert air system to control humidity but can be opened up for a nice breeze from the outdoors by way of double doors and screened windows.
Several tropical plantings are integrated into the area, but the homeowner laughs that the “jungle feel” is completed by the different things she sometimes finds in her solarium. “I have had a toad and lizards that have been brought in on the plants and have made their home here.” A natural feel is created by the stones, boulders and gardens surrounding the pool.
Most of the gardens that surround the swimming pool, both the ones inside and outside, were completed by the gifted homeowner who says she likes to “play in the garden.” But what she undertakes to make her gardens grand might seem more like work to most, considering the scale. “I use over 60 flats of annuals, plant over 100 planters, and have 20 hanging baskets,” remarks the homeowner. With regard to the plantings, the homeowner tries a little of everything. “I like to try out the newest varieties to see what happens.”