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Branch out and keep your cool
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 17/01/2016
» We were in the grounds of the seaside Marriott hotel in Rayong during a family holiday recently. I was walking towards the beach, with my husband, ML Charuphant, following several steps behind, when he called out.
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A landscape on the rocks
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 15/11/2015
» Frederik Majoor and his wife, Patraporn, live in a tropical paradise just a seven-minute walk from Surin beach in Phuket. They own three villas that boast a lush, beautifully landscaped garden, complete with a waterfall and a large pond designed like a stream and populated by 99 colourful Japanese carp, or koi.
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The imaginarium of pandanus
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 16/03/2014
» Pandanus tectorius, commonly known as screw pine or beach pandan (toey talay in Thai), has become the iconic symbol of Kamala Beach in Kathu district, western Phuket. Lining the beach alongside casuarina trees, their strong prop roots have held the sand in place and kept erosion at bay since Kamala was established as a popular beach resort in the 1970s. The tree also enjoyed pride of place in the beautifully landscaped garden of an exclusive condominium on the beachfront, until the property owners decided that its roots had become too ugly and obtrusive, and had it removed. Now they are in a dilemma over what to replace it with.
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Casuarina and effects
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 23/02/2014
» For some people, the mention of “sun, sea and sand” calls to mind a clear blue sea and a beach fringed by coconut fronds. For others, it evokes having a picnic or lazing the day away by the sea under the shade of a casuarina tree. The truth is that the former is a sight common only in travel brochures; from Rayong in the East down to Phuket in the South, it is Casuarina equisetifolia, commonly known as ironwood or horsetail casuarina (son talay in Thai) that is an integral part of Thai coastal areas. There are more casuarinas on Thai beaches than coconuts.
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Tree of life: Leaves help good health take root
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 07/07/2013
» Andre wrote from Ban Chang in Rayong to say that he wanted to get some dried leaves of Terminalia catappa, or Indian almond tree, for his wife's fish tank and asked where he could get them. I suggested that he find a tree and pick up the leaves that had fallen from it. If Andre cannot find a tree in his immediate neighbourhood, Wang Kaew Beach Resort near Laem Mae Pim in Rayong has several Terminalia catappa, known in Thai as hu kwang, by the seaside. Leaves fall every day, so I'm sure he will be able to obtain what he needs there. All he has to do is to dry them a bit more and they won't be any different from dried hu kwang leaves sold at some shops selling Siamese fighting fish at Chatuchak Weekend Market.
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Despite development, Phuket's botanical bounty remains
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 18/11/2012
» The once sleepy tin-mining town of Phuket is now a thriving metropolis, with traffic jams a regular feature of every day. If the intrepid tourists who fell in love with the natural beauty of a deserted beach called Patong, where they stayed in 25 baht a night bamboo huts in the early 1970s, were to return today, they would not be able to recognise the place with its many five-star hotels, bars and shops. In Patong the only place not overrun with buildings is the beach itself, but even this is covered from tip to tip by reclining chairs for rent.
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Life's a beach for these beauties
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 08/04/2012
» 'Green Fingers" on March 4 offered some suitable choices for oceanfront homeowners looking for plants to add shade, decoration or boundary markers to their property. Coconut trees and casuarina, known in Thai as son talay, are the most prominent trees along beaches throughout the country, but they are by no means the only ones you can plant by the sea.
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These trees love a sea breeze
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 04/03/2012
» Marc Jacqueline and his wife have acquired a piece of land near Khanom Bay in Nakhon Si Thammarat and want to plant trees around their property to define its borders. ''We were planning to use mango and coconut trees, but maybe we should look at alternatives such as teak or Acacia mangium or Caesalpinia pulcherrima,'' he wrote.
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