How moist is it? (scrape away the bark and stick your finger in)

OK, I will try that. I will need to find a way to rip its barks.

I mean the bark chips on top of the soil not the bark of the tree.

Oh! Ha, I was going to ask how to rip its bark to check.


The first looks about to die. Why are so many branches cut off? What
direction is the wall from #1? How many hours a day does the
sun hit the wall now?

That is why I was posting. It is not doing well. It got too big and
interfere with this adjacent walkway.

So you hacked it down to little more than a stump? Before pruning it is
an idea to find out what the plant is and how to prune it.

Before you cut it what did it look like?

I don't even remember now. :/


I'd say the sun shine in this
area from the late morning hours to late afternoon/early evening
hours. This area gets way too bright for me to close my window
blinds, so I could see my computer monitors. The sun rises behind
this white wall among the huge hill with green trees, plants, etc.

Brick or stone walls reflect a lot of heat and store it until after
nightfall. Perhaps the plant is getting baked.

Hmm. What about previous heat waves (can get up to 100F degrees!) like
last year? Recently, it hasn't been that hot but it is coming again like
every year.


The second doesn't look too bad but the photo is overexposed and I
can't see the colour of the leaves. What seems to be wrong with it?

Ignore the green leaves in the background. The tree is pretty has no
leaves like the other one. :/

I don't know what that means. Are we talking about the same plant?

Oops. I meant to say "... The tree pretty has no leaves like the other
one..." There's a naked small tree, without leaves, in the front of the
wall with lots of green plants up the hill.



Facing this wall, it is about 58 degrees (NE) according to iOS v8.3's
compass.

This is not clear to me. Do you mean the wall run NE to SW and so you
are standing on the SE side of it? Or if you face the wall you are
facing NE, that is you are on the SW side of it? I'm confused.

I was facing this white wall with the iPhone horizontally pointing at it
in front of me.


The point is if the sun is mainly on the other side of the wall a short
sun-loving plant will never get enough sun to grow well. If the sun is
on the same side as the plant it may get baked on hot days. How serious
this may be depends on the plnat, the soil and how much water it gets.

Ah. Hmm, how can we figure out these unidentified plants with very few
tiny leaves to know what it wants (less sun, more water, etc.).
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