Suitable trees - Perth (forum)

Shannon starts with ...
Hi
I was hoping that someone could give me some feedback on great tree options for Perth?
We are moving into a new home near the coast so have a new garden to start and looking for suitable trees that provide shade and are not too much work to look after, and dont drop too many leaves? We were hoping to establish a more tropical looking garden
I look forward to any feedback anyone has to offer - thanks


Time: 3rd August 2007 5:18pm

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james says...
Perth is spreading fast and i left ten years ago but a drive around Freo/sth freo should provide plenty of ideas.

Time: 3rd August 2007 8:20pm

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Stella says...
Hi Shannon
We too have just moved to the coast (northern suburbs), and depending on how close you are to the ocean and how strong the winds are will determine what sort of trees you plant.
Drive around the suburbs where you are moving to and see what is growing. Street trees could be a good indication.

Time: 3rd August 2007 10:07pm

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Shannon says...
Thanks Stella and James

I have certainly looked at the local street trees in the area but they tend to drop alot of debris so would be more time consuming to care for than what we wanted - we have one at the front of the property already anyway, but didn't want to replicate this in the back

I'll keep looking, but appreciate your taking the time to respond

:)

Time: 4th August 2007 4:39pm

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Leona says...
What about something tropical such as a mango, avocado, lychee, grumichama, brazilian cherry, barbados cherry or a guava (cherry, tropical "indian" or pineapple/feijoa varieties to name a few) would all be possible choices. Also, many of the citrus would be another option.

Time: 18th September 2007 11:35pm

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Jenni Reany says...
I live in the southern suburb of Shelley WA, I want to pull out my front garden bordering my grass and fence, I want to plant a shadey tree in the centre of the grass. Our house is on the canning riverfront and faces directly North. We have strong winds across the front, so the tree would need to be sturdy but hopefully not too messy. Because it is the front of my housem, I would like it too have some flowering capability.

Thanks Jenni

Time: 18th March 2008 5:54pm

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Leona says...
Loquats are nice, flowers arent anything special though. The only ones I can think of with nice flowers, are the deciduous fruit trees (such as plum, cherries etc), which drop their leaves, so maybe not ideal for you. Citrus trees are lovely, look gorgeous and ornament with the fruit and the flowers smell so sweet! I cant think of any others, which have significant flowers though. Perhaps someone else can help? Good luck with it.

Time: 18th March 2008 7:51pm

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aNON says...
Are you on the flats or in the hills?

The chill difference is big eg cherries marginal in hills a bit of a loss in the flats, same for apples.

Flats grow good avocadoes hills can frost them out.

Time: 19th March 2008 9:45am

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Julie says...
No,no,no aNoN. Avocadoes and cherries grow realy well (mangoes too) in the hills suburb I live in - Roleystone, an orchard area. Yes, it does get a lot colder at night in winter than the flats,and they love that.
I have heard of avocadoes and mangoes doing well in Perth too.

Time: 19th March 2008 4:51pm

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Leona says...
Hey Jenni,
I know youre after a fruit tree but if it doenst really matter if its not, and if its more the flowering aspect that youre interested in, then grafted flowering gums are a gorgeous and hardy option. The red and pink ones are really nice. Here is a link on them:
http://asgap.org.au/APOL2007/jun07-s2.html

Time: 19th March 2008 5:13pm

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Jenni Reany says...
Have had a look at the summer red and summer beauty thanks Leona and it looks gorgeous I agree and I like the hardy option. do you know if it would create much shade as it quite a weeping tree?

Time: 19th March 2008 10:57pm

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Leona says...
I dont think its a weeping or spreading tree - more a small to medium, upright tree. I think they grow to roughly 5 metres high with around a 3 or 4 metre spread. A jacaranda is another option but they do get rather messy. Same as the Fuyu persimmon and the Shahtoot mulberry - they are both great small to medium shade trees, spreading, semi-weeping growth habit and nice fruit, but both drop leaves.

Time: 20th March 2008 10:06am

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aNON says...
The commercial guys at Araluen pulled his cherries out ddue to lack of cold.

Time: 20th March 2008 1:45pm

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Anonymous says...
The bloke on Patterson Rd sprays with chemical dormex to grow his cherries.

Time: 20th March 2008 4:41pm

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Anonymous says...
What bloke on Patterson Rd?

Time: 21st March 2008 9:14am

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