{{Short description|Horticultural structure}} 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.<ref name=Birsdeye/>
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.<ref name=Vanilla/>
==References== <references>
<ref name=Birsdeye>{{citation |pages=37–39 |title=Growing Woodland Plants |author1=Clarence Birdseye |author2=Eleanor Gannett Birdseye |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1951 |chapter=Shade-Houses }}</ref> <ref name=Vanilla>{{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}}</ref>
</references> ==Gallery== <gallery mode=packed> 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 </gallery>
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