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arrival of donations and volunteers needed for the temple construction to be fulfilled. After breakfast, she would sit for meditation until about 11.00H.. After taking her own lunch, she would be seen preparing a bucket, a machete and a hoe and would invite the temple laypeople to help plant out trees. However, many generations of trees were lost because the soil at the temple was very acid [pH = 4]. Not many species could tolerate that degree of acidity, but it turned out that the one which could survive was wattle [Acacia auriculiformis Cunn.]. It was a pioneer species and its nitrifying properties had the ability to transform the consistency of the soil. Wattle was the only survivor when all the other trees had died but under the influence of this tree, the soil improved sufficiently in quality to allow other species to be planted too, especially eucalyptus. As the soil quality improved, she planted an incredible variety of tree species whether it be Annonaceae shrubs, Mimusops, Rose Chestnut, ilang-ilang, Apocynaceae or Pterocarpus. The trees seen today are the few survivors. Trees had been planted and replaced over and over again. Some were buried during constructions of buildings and infrastructures. But Khun Yay never gave up, she kept trying new species until she found survivors. She was happy all the trees could make a safe home for wild birds. Khun Yay had a fondness for trees. However, with so many chickens and peacocks which had been released in the temple, she wouldn’t trust anyone to leave saplings at ground level, but instead constructed a hammock where the saplings could be stored out of reach until they could be planted out. If useful trees bore seeds, she told her attendants to keep them for her to germinate.