Best tree to grow in frontyard

[ttechguy]

I need suggestions on which will be best tree to grow in front yard that available in Bangkok.

 

Which can grow tall and wide to give shade, personally I like mango tree but they grow slow and not a good looking one :) so looking for suggestion from landscape experience guys here and recommendations :) 

[bankruatsteve]

Well, I was going to say mango tree.  

 

[Crossy]

Me too, what's not to like, fairly big leaves, not that slow growing (some of ours are 5m high within 5 years), nice fruit.

 

 

[bankruatsteve]

The mango tree isn't THAT slow at growing.  We have 3 in our front yard and the main one (they are all different types) started 5 years ago as a knee high and now it's 3 meters (?).  Anyway, it's a nice tree and full of mango at the moment.  The other two haven't grown the same but doing well.  The really fast growing trees here are not something you want to showcase.

[eyecatcher]

My main shade provider is a rose apple tree. I have to trim it every month and the leaves are almost as big as teak leaves.

its fruits twice a year, early December and new fruit growing now.

 

i get turtle doves nesting in it 3 times a years, the tree lizards love it and the hummingbirds love it. when the fruit arrives the Burmese squirrels enjoy a feast.

 

After 3 years  I gave it serious lopping...by half; last September and already its grown back into a nice new shape.

 

The downside to my roseapple............the variety we have is bloody awful!

[Morakot]

I am not sure what tree to recommend, but I can lend the member for his private study, a copy of Michael Jensen's second edition of Trees Commonly Cultivated in Southeast Asia: An Illustrated Field Guide  published in Bangkok by Craftsman Press (1999).

 

Jensen99.pdf

[eyecatcher]

excellent field guide; I borrowed it also.........when do you need it back?

[Morakot]

At your leisure... Enjoy!

[Hereinthailand]

The best tree to grow is one your neighbors cant reach. They will steal every piece of fruit they can get their hands on.

[tutsiwarrior]

On 3/4/2017 at 7:53 PM, eyecatcher said:

My main shade provider is a rose apple tree. I have to trim it every month and the leaves are almost as big as teak leaves.

its fruits twice a year, early December and new fruit growing now.

 

i get turtle doves nesting in it 3 times a years, the tree lizards love it and the hummingbirds love it. when the fruit arrives the Burmese squirrels enjoy a feast.

 

After 3 years  I gave it serious lopping...by half; last September and already its grown back into a nice new shape.

 

The downside to my roseapple............the variety we have is bloody awful!

 

hummingbirds?

[chickenslegs]

7 minutes ago, tutsiwarrior said:

 

hummingbirds?

Probably this moth...

 

 

Confuses many people - including myself -  until corrected.

[tutsiwarrior]

14 minutes ago, chickenslegs said:

Probably this moth...

 

 

Confuses many people - including myself -  until corrected.

 

wow...a big mouthful fer a jin jok...

 

 

[eyecatcher]

2 hours ago, tutsiwarrior said:

 

hummingbirds?

Well not specifically.....we have a few pairs of olive backed sunbirds which hover and fly backwards like hummingbirds.

They also build similar nests hanging with a trap door entrance

[tutsiwarrior]

hummingbirds are a favorite as I grew up in California where we got lots...

 

we had a fuchsia once in the back yard and I could watch them fer hours...

 

and a hummer once perched inside the limbs of the fuchsia bush just outta reach of my cat Delphi who I loved but was a typical lethal feline with regard to birds...

 

the bird could see the cat who was trembling and growling with murderous intention but knew that it was outta danger and it looked with head cocked at the cat so as to say: 'whaddaya lookin' at?' and at that moment I knew that I had been blessed...