สวนสมุนไพรนาตีน Natin spicy garden

Welcome to Natin Spicy Garden

The garden is timely closed from 4 to 28 September 2024

The garden is located in the Southern Thai province Krabi. Natin is one of the seven villages together known as Ao Nang, with beaches at the Andaman Sea.
The garden is a plot of ca 8000 m², surrounded by beautifull steep mountains mostly with caves (old coral reefs).

corral mountain in background.		this palm is home in Madagascar		including a camphor tree		real garlic smell		an epiphytic fern		Most of them wrote down the Thai names from the labels
Visitor center		Bismarckia nobilis		Cinnamon trees		Garlic vine		Platicerium_holttumii		80 young visiters

The garden is for people interested in plants.
Here you can see the living plants you know from the labels on the box like coffee,cinnamon etc.

For nearly every day use:

very fragrant flowers		with red ripe fruits		green berries for green and black pepper,red berries for the white pepper		small flower pollinated by even smaller flyes		fruit has purplush seeds with the odour of choclat
Robusta coffee		Robusta coffee		Pepper berries		Cacao flower		cacao

Spices like:

flowering in top of the stem		flowering with a flower head on leafless stalk		the top has only showy bracts and no flowers(comosus)		flowering shrub		smashed together gives a curry paste
lesser galangal		ginger		turmeric flowering		curry leaf bush		turmeric root+curry leaf

Tropical fruits like:

In S. America pollinated by humming birds		fruit with one comosus		fruit with may comosa		fruits and flowers		not ripe		flowering.Figs have the flowers insdide the figs.
Pineapple,flowering		pineapple		pineapple		papaya		jackfruit(family of figs)		young jackfruit

Tropical vegetables like:

white flowers		fruit and flower		nice ornamented fruit		Musa sp. AAB group Kluai roi wi
Water spinach		Common cucumber		Bitter cucumber		banana's in many hands

Plants that have other uses such as:

very nice smell, used as perfume in soaps and washing products		Citronells oil is Used in sauna's, in aroma therapy and as a mosquito repellent		only the leaves are used		high quality timber		As a medicine for the heart.In Africa used on deadly toxic hunting darts
Acacia farnesiana		Citronella grass		Henna flowering		Teak		Climbing Oleander

Thai people do not make a big difference between food plants, spices and medicinal plant as Western people do today.
The Thai name for the garden is more according the Thai concept of edible plants that can be used medicinal or as spice.
Therefore we chose as Thai name สวน สมุนไพร นาตีน ,pronounced as suan samunprai Natin.
It can be translated as garden medicinal plants [in] Natin .

If you are in Krabi, we think you should visit the garden if your interest is in the following list:

Colorful and nice smelling plants
Cooking with (tropical) spices
Perfumes and aromatic plants
Dyes from plants
Medicinal/poisonous plants (we have many)