Where there is water, there should be plants. To this end, the design includes a generous flower/plant bed at the shallow end of the pool. The design is such that the top 600mm or so is plant bed, while beneath that we have a large storage cupboard, accessible via a door from the lawn below. The final product should look something like this:

I haven’t bothered to write too much about the landscaping efforts surrounding the pool itself as it’s not particularly interesting, but below are a few photos of the vegetable garden built on the downhill edge of the pool.

Building an automatic water manager for a vertical garden wall.