All My Work Getting the Shade Garden to Grow...

but now I could just cry....

I had to do some adjusting to get this shade garden growing since some plants were lost to the types of soil I used, and other plants just didn't do so well in the shade (water lotus).  But all in all, I was so happy with trimming up my Banyan tree and how things were looking.  This is a snapshot of how nice it was growing.

 

Next, you'll see the orchids a co-worker gave me to put into my shade garden.  They are lovely and she promises to get me a white one, too!  The shade of the tree branches were perfect for the orchids.

 Now look at how high the tree branches are above the beautiful (shade loving) orchids.

 I'm just heart broken.  That's what I get for asking my friend's father to take out the short trunk that grew a bunch of branches.  This next picture is actually the picture I took and showed my friend what her father should take out.

You can see this part on the left side of the main tree sections.  It's short and looks like it's in the corner below.  So, my wonderful helper trimmed the tree and now the sun hits it from the right side (as you look at the below photo) from about 1 in the afternoon until sunset.  It's definitely NOT a shade garden any longer, and I'm afraid everything will dry up from too much sun.  This was my only spot in the whole yard that had shade.  I want to cry! The poor orchids will surely struggle. 

 In an earlier post, I mentioned that my Thai friends asked me why I was doing the gardening and yard work alone.  People here have gardeners work in their yards for them.  If a person owns a house, someone else does the work putting in the garden.  It will take another year or more to get this tree to grow lower branches and become a shade garden again. I'm just heart broken. I knew I should have just done the trimming!  So, now I'm on to my next project... the other trees~