Shade house

A shade house is a garden structure which provides a mix of shade and light to provide suitable conditions for shade-loving plants. Typically, it will have a frame which supports the elements providing shade which might be fabric, mesh or wooden laths.^[1]

Shade houses may also be used in commercial horticulture. For example, vanilla vines need 50% shade and, in deforested areas of Mexico, this is provided by shade houses of 1,000 – 10,000 square metres. These have tree-like support posts or actual living trees. From these, shade cloth walls of 3–5 metres height are suspended and these are black or red to cut the luminosity by half.^[2]

References

^ Clarence Birdseye; Eleanor Gannett Birdseye (1951), "Shade-Houses", Growing Woodland Plants, Oxford University Press, pp. 37–39
^ Daphna Havkin-Frenkel; Faith C. Belanger (2010), "Shade Houses", Handbook of Vanilla Science and Technology, John Wiley & Sons, p. 24, ISBN 9781444329377

Gallery

The Shadehouse at Rockledge Gardens
A fabric shade house at Small Dole
A lath shade house at Toowoomba in 1900

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[Birsdeye-1] Clarence Birdseye; Eleanor Gannett Birdseye (1951), "Shade-Houses", Growing Woodland Plants, Oxford University Press, pp. 37–39

[Vanilla-2] Daphna Havkin-Frenkel; Faith C. Belanger (2010), "Shade Houses", Handbook of Vanilla Science and Technology, John Wiley & Sons, p. 24, ISBN 9781444329377

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