Shade house

A shade house is a horticultural structure which provides a mix of shade and light to provide suitable conditions for shade-loving plants, or to reduce the temperatures under the cover. Typically it will have a frame which supports mesh fabric or wood lath.

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.

References

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{{citation |pages=37–39 |title=Growing Woodland Plants |author1=Clarence Birdseye |author2=Eleanor Gannett Birdseye |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1951 |chapter=Shade-Houses }}

{{citation |page=24 |chapter=Shade Houses|title=Handbook of Vanilla Science and Technology |author1=Daphna Havkin-Frenkel |author2=Faith C. Belanger |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |year=2010 |isbn=9781444329377}}

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==Gallery==

File:Shade house - Flickr - peganum.jpg|A fabric shade house in England

File:Peter Black Conservatory Lath House (49481155613).jpg|Lath house at the Peter Black Conservatory in New Zealand

File:Umbráculo, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, España, 2014-06-29, DD 40.JPG|The Shade House, part of a public garden in Valencia, Spain

File:Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. A view of section of the lath house at this War R . . . - NARA - 538033.tif|A lath house for starting seedlings, California 1942

File:Shade house at Toowoomba residence, Roslyn (6796831990).jpg|A lath house in 1900 Australia

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