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.
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.Gallery
