15 Gorgeous Ways to Landscape Around a Pool 15 Photos
Is there anything more idyllic than a day at the pool? Turn your basic swimming hole into a relaxing oasis with these creative landscaping ideas.
Backyard Envy
About the Show
Award-winning pool designer Lucas Congdon founded Lucas Lagoons with the mission to create outdoor living spaces that are timeless works of art. The members of Lucas' tightly knit crew -- one of whom is his mother -- are builders, artisans and all-together unique characters. Follow Lucas and his crew as they tackle unprecedented designs, challenging clients, impossible build sites, malfunctioning equipment, crises in weather, unforgiving materials and much more in their quest to build breathtaking natural wonders in everyday backyards.
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Episodes
See Episode GuideOld Pool, New Dreams
Lucas Congdon gives outdated pools and spas jaw-dropping transformations to give homeowners the backyard of their dreams.
Waterpark Wonderland
Pool designer Lucas Congdon transforms a neglected backyard into a waterpark wonderland. With his most extreme remodel yet, Lucas creates a family fun zone complete with a waterslide and a double-decker party space.
Fiesta de Laguna
A Venice, Florida, couple calls on Lucas Congdon and his crew to transform their existing pool into a resort-style pool with an old-world Mexico vibe. Lucas encounters several firsts while working to infuse Mexican flavors into his creation.
Old Pool, New Dreams
Lucas Congdon gives outdated pools and spas jaw-dropping transformations to give homeowners the backyard of their dreams.
Waterpark Wonderland
Pool designer Lucas Congdon transforms a neglected backyard into a waterpark wonderland. With his most extreme remodel yet, Lucas creates a family fun zone complete with a waterslide and a double-decker party space.
Fiesta de Laguna
A Venice, Florida, couple calls on Lucas Congdon and his crew to transform their existing pool into a resort-style pool with an old-world Mexico vibe. Lucas encounters several firsts while working to infuse Mexican flavors into his creation.
Rockin' It in Rocket City
Lucas Congdon travels to Huntsville, Alabama, to build a military couple's lifelong dream pool. He designs the largest grotto-enclosed spa and widest waterfall he's ever created, and gives the build a tornado shelter.
Swimming with the Fishes
The Lucas Lagoons crew turns a koi pond into a backyard oasis for a family and their fish in Siesta Key, FL. The team transforms an old, outdated pool into a natural lagoon, then connect it to the new pond and install an amazing aquaponics system.
Top of the Mountain
Pool designer Lucas Congdon heads west to Bountiful, UT to build a dream backyard on the side of a mountain. Faced with many challenges, Lucas creates a Tuscan-themed pool complete with a spa, the biggest linear fire wall he's ever built and a grotto with a 23,000 pound lid.
Backyard or Waterpark?
When clients ask Lucas for a backyard water park, he delivers resort-worthy pools that make them feel like they're on vacation.
Green With Envy
Lucas and the crew build a Caribbean destination in a landlocked backyard. It's a clash of wills, however, as the clients demand a reluctant Lucas use green rocks to create a tropical oasis with a sand-bottom, salt-water pool.
For the Birds
A multi-generational, environmentally conscious family living in a designated bird sanctuary in Osprey, Florida, asks design expert Lucas Congdon to turn an outdated, rundown backyard into a human pool paradise and a bird pond oasis.
From Mild to Wild
Pool designer Lucas Congdon and his crew travel to Tampa, Florida, to build the most epic, adrenaline-filled backyard pool to date! He's creating two pools in one backyard with a nearly nine-foot high spa, two in-pool pergolas, his first-ever fire feature inside a grotto and a treehouse with a theme-park-sized slide. The project comes with a few challenges, however, when the clients request a last-minute addition and the sheer size of the pool becomes problematic.
Paradise on the Bay
The Lucas Lagoons crew creates a bayside paradise for a couple with a home in Snead Island, FL. Lucas is stymied by the challenge of building an outdoor living space, pool, spa, fire features and kitchen without any of his signature rockwork.
Tropical Twists
There's nothing like kicking back in the tropics and listening to the native wildlife with a cold drink in your hand. Now, you don't have to go to the tropics to do it as Lucas Congdon ups his swim-up bar game and puts a tropical twist on these pools!
Zen and the Art of Pools
Lucas Congdon takes his art of backyard transformation to a couple in Parrish, Florida, who requests the ultimate space of tranquility and relaxation. While building a serene oasis is one thing, Lucas must calm down his crazy crew enough to tap into their inner zen.
Growing Pains
A couple with a baby wants Lucas to remodel their dangerously outdated pool and make it safe for their son. The goal is to preserve the pool's cage while swinging in massive rocks to transform a dull patio pool into a stunning natural atrium.
Tropical Twists
There's nothing like kicking back in the tropics and listening to the native wildlife with a cold drink in your hand. Now, you don't have to go to the tropics to do it as Lucas Congdon ups his swim-up bar game and puts a tropical twist on these pools!
Zen and the Art of Pools
Lucas Congdon takes his art of backyard transformation to a couple in Parrish, Florida, who requests the ultimate space of tranquility and relaxation. While building a serene oasis is one thing, Lucas must calm down his crazy crew enough to tap into their inner zen.
Growing Pains
A couple with a baby wants Lucas to remodel their dangerously outdated pool and make it safe for their son. The goal is to preserve the pool's cage while swinging in massive rocks to transform a dull patio pool into a stunning natural atrium.
Paradise on the Bay
The Lucas Lagoons crew creates a bayside paradise for a couple with a home in Snead Island, FL. Lucas is stymied by the challenge of building an outdoor living space, pool, spa, fire features and kitchen without any of his signature rockwork.
Ultimate Backyard Paradises
Lucas and his team have transformed more than 150 backyards into paradises. Lucas revisits five of his favorites, and reveals some of their never-before-seen, most outrageous, backyard creations.
Swimming with the Fishes
The Lucas Lagoons crew turns a koi pond into a backyard oasis for a family and their fish in Siesta Key, FL. The team transforms an old, outdated pool into a natural lagoon, then connect it to the new pond and install an amazing aquaponics system.
Mountain Lodge Oasis
The Lucas Lagoons crew faces the unique challenge of building a Rocky Mountain-style lagoon for a family living in the Florida wetlands, and quickly learn the clients will be supervising them along the way.
Growing Pains
A couple with a baby wants Lucas to remodel their dangerously outdated pool and make it safe for their son. The goal is to preserve the pool's cage while swinging in massive rocks to transform a dull patio pool into a stunning natural atrium.
Living Under the Sea
Pool designer Lucas Congdon creates an outdoor water room that even a mermaid could love. Former clients who love the ocean ask Lucas to remodel their new home's tiny pool, which sits just yards away from the Gulf of Mexico.
