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
- 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
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A fabric shade house in England
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Lath house at the Peter Black Conservatory in New Zealand
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The Shade House, part of a public garden in Valencia, Spain
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A lath house for starting seedlings, California 1942
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A lath house in 1900 Australia
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