I am open to suggestions but I was wanting to limit myself to conifers or the like because I feels that any other type of foliage would drop too many leaves etc into abovementioned pool - Guess whose job it will be to clean that up !!!!

The local nursery recommended "castewallen gold" but it seems that this particular species tends to be about 4 m diameter at the base.

I would appreciate any suggestions

Regards

Prem

I have a row of some sort of conifer that has little round seed pods. In addition to the leaves that fall naturally seemingly all year round, they are also incredibly messy whenever it is windy and gutter cleaning is a regular chore. The hard round seed pods are a real joy to walk on - hurt muchly if you are bare foot, very easy to turn your ankle if wearing shoes.

And if that isn't enough, in spring the trees flower. And discharge huge amounts of pollen - yellow dust which covers everything.

And do remember that these trees are not going to stop growing at 3-4 metres.

If it were my swimming pool, I think I would prefer a deciduous tree that dropped it's bundle once a year.

If you have a neighbour on the other side of the fence, do remember that these trees are also going to affect his/her gardening in the area of the trees.

If it was my garden (and this is just my personal preference) I would choose something that gave a tropical looking background to the pool. And tropical to me, in my area of hard winter frosts and occasional snow, is an evergreen with dark green, shiny leaves.

Would any of the Lilli Pillis grow in your area - for example Syzygium luehmannii - very dense, usually narrow and can be pruned. There's a nice photo at the site mentioned below. They grow well in Wollongong - would depend on your climate.

Juniper 'Hibernica' grows to 3 - 4.5 m tall and 0.6 - 1.2m wide - they are dense with a blue-green foliage. I have one in the garden and I love the colour. No problems with dropping anything that I can see.

xCupressocyparis leylandii (Leyland Cypress) is fast growing and takes well to trimming - deep green - can grow after 10 years to something like 100 feet if left untouched but .. if you want privacy??? Naylor's Blue has a more bluish green foliage and is more columnar in habit.

Barb