New British pools don! t attempt to imi-
tate their counterparts in Corfu or the Caribbean. They draw on other and far older sources of inspiration. Although modern and Minimalist, some of them recall the rectilinear rills that are such a classic feature of Indian and Near Eastern gardens. Others continue a home-grown tradition that began with taking a plunge in a natural pond or lake and evolved, in the Edwardian era, into something really rather clever: a purpose-built, brick- lined swimming tank filled with fresh water and surrounded with slightly submerged plantings whose job was to look good and to keep the water clean. Even if you don! t
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feel entirely happy entrusting hygiene control to bulrushes and swamp cypresses, with modern-day !p lanted! pools, you can not only grow water lilies, but also swim among them. Twenty-first-century
swimming-pool
designs are features to be yearned for and made much of, whether we! re taking about a sheer-sided canal of monumental simplicity and elegance or an informal oasis nestling amid a profusion of plants. Just in time for summer, the British swimming pool has finally arrived, along with new filtration plants and non-toxic chemicals that mean the water can remain fresh and viable.
Pooled resources
Christopher Bradley-Hole (www.
christopherbradley-hole.co.uk)
George Carter (01362 668130;
grcarter@easynet.co.ukh)
Kiftsgate Court, Gloucestershire (
www.kiftsgate.co.uk)
Raymond Jungles (www.
raymondjungles.com)
Ted Smyth, Auckland, New Zealand (00 64 98 10 96 97)
Woodhouse Natural Pools (
www.naturalswimmingpools.com)
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