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.
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Shade houses may also be used in commercial horticulture. For example, ]vanilla
Vanilla is a spice derived from orchids of the genus '' Vanilla'', primarily obtained from pods of the Mexican species, flat-leaved vanilla ('' V. planifolia'').
Pollination is required to make the plants produce the fruit from whic ...
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
Luminosity is an absolute measure of radiated electromagnetic power (light), the radiant power emitted by a light-emitting object over time. In astronomy, luminosity is the total amount of electromagnetic energy emitted per unit of time by a st ...
by half.[
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References
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
Agricultural buildings
Garden features
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