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I'm in central Florida. I have a location at the corner of the house where i have water a few inches below the surface, due to a massive clay table under ground. It doesn't drain at all. A week after rain its still wet. I dig a small hole, and it forms a puddle within 2 seconds.
I need a plant as a privacy bush, to grow or keep at 8ft tall. Ideally a fruit tree, but anything that covers the view from the street to my pool.
Would Mango or orange or lemon grow there? Sea Grape trees? Mangroves? some flowering?
I think you should have a French drain professionally installed to protect your property and your house, that is far more important than blocking a view of the pool and it will increase the value of the property. https://www.bobvila.com/articles/french-drains/
Afterwards in the area where you want the view of the pool blocked you should not plant anything in the ground but you could place one or two containers with plants, tall shrubs or small trees that are the appropriate height/width to block the view.
Celery lettuce cabbage and the like would grow well there. For privacy put up a fence of some sort. Chances are you won't be there by the time a tree or shrub gets big enough to make a difference. You can park low growing stuff in front of the fence.
I have a six foot spot like that up against the left side of my back yard. I did have Arborvitae there. The wetter it got it took longer for those Arborvitae to grow. I just took them all out and I am going to plant some Dwarf Southern Magnolias. I am going to build up the soil a bit. I'll let you know if they die; they are sitting there ready to plant this fall (soon). The Magnolias need the top 3 inches of soil to be wet; but, I'm not sure they will be happy there. I read somewhere to make sure to plant them with steer manure (in the wet location). ????
I love the Southern Magnolias because they bloom and they look a bit tropical. They are kind of billowy instead of dense foliage and they are upright and fairly narrow for a tree. They are a good screen (in place of the Arborvitaes). I still have Arborvitaes up against the back fence. But, the Magnolias are supposed to be fire resistant (so, I will have them on the sides of the back yard).
All true, but a weeping willow is a HUGE tree. Not sure how much room OP has for it.
I suggest a River Birch. They like wet feet and stay relatively narrow. The peeling bark is pretty. Few plants can live with the roots submerged all the time, so he should still plant it high.
In Florida???
I had trash "river" birch in Vermont that I used to cut for firewood. They certainly are not a privacy tree. As a kid, I used to like being able to peel a paper off a birch. I think it was an exhibition of Sargent that I saw a few years back that did them justice. However, they are not semi-tropical or tropical, TTBOMK.
I had trash "river" birch in Vermont that I used to cut for firewood. They certainly are not a privacy tree. As a kid, I used to like being able to peel a paper off a birch. I think it was an exhibition of Sargent that I saw a few years back that did them justice. However, they are not semi-tropical or tropical, TTBOMK.
Well, mine is very happy in south GA, zone 8. They are very popular landscape trees here.
I'm in central Florida. I have a location at the corner of the house where i have water a few inches below the surface, due to a massive clay table under ground. It doesn't drain at all. A week after rain its still wet. I dig a small hole, and it forms a puddle within 2 seconds.
I need a plant as a privacy bush, to grow or keep at 8ft tall. Ideally a fruit tree, but anything that covers the view from the street to my pool.
Would Mango or orange or lemon grow there? Sea Grape trees? Mangroves? some flowering?
Certain bamboos. Many are terribly invasive and near impossible to eradicate once established.
Yeah, bamboo can get out of hand in a hurry.
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