House and garden.

[charleyboy]

Please bear with me, this is going to be a long thread and could be of assistance to others about to build their 'dream home' here in Thailand.
We decided to move out of Cha-am in January 2010 and settled into a village a couple of miles out of town.
A few pictures of the place just after we bought it.

[charleyboy]

[charleyboy]

Here's my first tip. Never plant these as a hedge...
Bougainvillea, the bane of my life!

[charleyboy]

A couple of months later, I decided to have a seperate 'guest room' built for friends etc... Had it built in the same design as the house, little did I know that the roof was going to cost a small fortune!

[aging one]

Bougainvillea, the bane of my life!

Beautiful they are but the rats, and cockroaches of the plant world. Go everywhere and grow so freaking fast. There is a way, but it will cost ya.

Keep it coming, I am about to put up a thread on how fast stuff grows.

[charleyboy]

Here's a front view.

[charleyboy]

^ It is level...Just my photography skills!

Then we put in some (what I call) nice pathwork.

[charleyboy]

[charleyboy]

All was looking 'rosy' in the garden!

[Attilla the Hen]

Nothing wrong with Bouganvillea, just never, never take it out of a pot.
Once in the ground, all it wants to do is grow more branches and leaves and a lot less energy goes into producing flowers.

[charleyboy]

Then, this fookin' happened!

To be continued...

[charleyboy]

^^ Atilla. It was already there when we bought!

[aging one]

Suspense, I am betting on a beautiful swimming pool.

Say charley is that a one rai estate? Really nice piece of land.

[Necron99]

I'll go with combined pig farm, tannery and all night karaoke bar over the road.

[pseudolus]

Nah - he said Warning. I reckon is it something like crocodiles moved in or something.

[pseudolus]

OR the mother in law! Even worse....

[Loombucket]

Looking good so far charley, keep it coming!

Personally, I like the thorny, flowering stuff. But you need serious gloves to prune it.

[Necron99]

^ Probably pikeys..

[nigelandjan]

Charley your getting me worried ,,are you Stephen Kings alter ego ?


I,m gonna go with a recycling plant on the land behind the bourgonvillas ( I sincerely hope I,m wrong mate )

[withnallstoke]

House and garden.

Great photos.

Reminds me of another bunch of queers.

The House and Martins.

Build.

[Aberlour]

Hope it's nothing too tragic. That's a gorgeous little plot you have there and a cracking house.

[benny628]

So.....what happened

[charleyboy]

^ You're very impatient Benny!

In Petchaburi, Cha-am to be precise, we seem to be without rain for the best part of the year, then there's the added bonus of having the water turned off every now and then.
We've got about 1200 sq m. That's OK if you're a keen gardener, or is it?
I've asked everywhere for 'weed and feed'. Can't find it anywhere.

So, eventually this happens!

[charleyboy]

Ther must be over tweny different types of weed that managed to penetrate the grass, eventually it all became too much.

Here's some more of the shite!

[charleyboy]

And don't get me onto 'clover'...Looks good from a distance, but when it dries up and appears to die, the lawn looks like patchwork.

So again, I had to decide what to do. Hard work entailed!

Out with the edging. It will come in handy later on.