11-12-2007, 11:12 PM
Since you're having trouble finding the appropriate shade spot on you property perhaps it's time to think in terms of construction where you'll get exactly what you want. A trellis, a shadehouse. I've utilized a lean-two, hung on one end to the side of the carport with a corregated PVC transluscent roof (available at Pahoa Hardware, see Don or Jake), which darkens through time. It's perfect for violets, cane begonia et. al.. or the standard shadecloth.
In many ways gardening in Hawaii is the antithesis of temperate gardening so for those of us who came here from elsewhere we have an almost complete re-education processes to go through yet it is fun, learnng, for the most part, not to work in the heat of the day, that there are microbes here which are extremely virulent and we must take care of scrapes and injuries immediately, an occasional pig running though the property and ,of course, always the bugs. Let's face it we live in Bugworld!
JayJay
In many ways gardening in Hawaii is the antithesis of temperate gardening so for those of us who came here from elsewhere we have an almost complete re-education processes to go through yet it is fun, learnng, for the most part, not to work in the heat of the day, that there are microbes here which are extremely virulent and we must take care of scrapes and injuries immediately, an occasional pig running though the property and ,of course, always the bugs. Let's face it we live in Bugworld!
JayJay
JayJay