Re: New to the forum and first time Pool Owner
Hope you don't mind me adding my 2 cents worth about trees. I have FIVE fruitless mulberry trees between my back patio and the pool. My patio faces due West, so in the hot summers we have here, they provide wonderful shade in the afternoons and early evenings from the still hot sun. BUT, I hate these trees because in the springtime they bless (sic) me and my pool with sterile fruit that falls, and then, in the fall they bless me and my pool with millions and millions of leaves. It's a constant battle to rake and skim the leaves and their crud out of the pool. If it weren't for the fact that they keep the west side of my house cool(er) in the summer, they would have been firewood a looooooong time ago!
Oh, by the way, I did not plant these trees, they were here when I moved in 9 1/2 years ago. I was none the wiser back then.