Trees for a thai garden!

[Munich]

Hi,

after I recently got rid of my 10 meter high xxxcking bamboo bushes, I am planning to plant several trees or plants along a wall, seperating the neighbours property from mine.

As I had problems with bamboo leaves in my pool in the past, I am looking for trees that are not loosing to many leaves arround the year or high growing bushes like the bougainville. Any idea, experience, tipps?

THX

Munich

[recycler]

Try plastic trees ;-)

[AnotherOneAmerican]

Banana trees, grow fast, 6m in 1 year, thick foliage with no dropped leaves.

Papaya also worth considering 3m in a year, foliage not so thick, but no dropped leaves.

Edited December 29, 2014 by AnotherOneAmerican

[samuijimmy]

I hope you got all the bamboo roots out, or you might see it coming back

Bougainvillaea is nice, but if it gets too large, it can be a nightmare to prune (thorns!) If you trim it regularity it's not too bad

One of my favorite trees which does not get too large is Caesalpinia pulcherrima forma flava... Aka Peacock flower tree... several colours and blooms just about all the time!

Not that messy....

From a small plant it will grow to about 3 metres in one year, but rarely much larger, it bushes out and makes a nice screen

This web site gives more info, http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Peacock%20Flower%20yellow.html

Sorry no idea of Thai name, but you can print picture if you want... I would think available in most areas of Thailand...

Various forms of Hibiscus will also grow quite quickly with some TLC... more of a shrub than a tree! Thai word sounds like Shaba... there are several colors

another type of Hibiscus, all easy to make cuttings, if you can find a mother plant...

Lot's of other choices really you need to look what others have planted in your area...

[ronthai]

Any tree will do.

The neighbours will "poof" (make them disappear) anyway

[Dukgae]

Samuijimmy's advice is excellent as always. I could also suggest red-stemmed palm, they stay quite vertical and bushy compared to some other palms but are quite slow-growing so you'd need to buy them fairly big to start with - not cheap but almost no maintenance unless you get a very dry spell and they need some watering.

Also agree with Jimmy about the bamboo - I got rid of a big hedge four months ago, and the guys did their best to get all the roots out but couldn't get all of it and still last week I had some new shoots come up - advise you to wait a while to deal with possible new shoots before you plant other things.

Edited December 30, 2014 by Dukgae

[doremifasol]

Sempervirens Fast Hedge Plants or Boxwood Shrub make a nice privacy screen.

[samuijimmy]

It would be good to know which area of Thailand the OP lives, plants like Boxwood would not grow (well) in the warmer areas or the southern regions... (probably fine up north or higher elevations, where it is cooler at night)

Sometimes a little more information is needed!

[IMHO]

Around a pool? Plant palms and hedges.. the former only drop big fronds which are easy to fish out of the water, the latter add privacy and if maintained well, will never shed into the pool.

[Munich]

Thanks to all of you,

I am living in Huay Yai, near Jomtien!

Sammuijimmy thanks for the Peacock Tree suggestion, I saw the tree before, but had no idea about the name, beautifull! I have two Hisbiscus allready, but it seems to be to hot in the direct sun for them.

Dukgae - I have several palms already, so I need something else - but you are right - cheap and no maintenance.

Regarding the bamboo - I think I got a species that is not spreading, so no roots could be found out of a 1 meter radius of the plants.

Happy New Year to all friends from ThaiVisa!!

Munich