Looking for ideas for a temporary shade solution for flowers in front?
Thanks everyone for your help..
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Large umbrellas stuck in the ground, like at the beach.
Do you care about how this looks? If not you could just string a plastic tarp to shade the flowers. If you do care perhaps some sort of sturcture that would be permanent but where the shade itself is removable. Sort of like a wooden pergola with shade cloth that can be removed when not needed.
You can buy shade cloth for plants. Check on Amazon.
Hi Alice, here's some info, however, not very pretty!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFbloOu_raQ
here is some info
https://www.latimes.com/home/garden/la-hm-shield-your-plants-from-the-heat-20160731-snap-story.html#:~:text=An%20old%20pallet%2C%20for%20example,it%20doesn't%20retain%20heat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFyikxAedNY
Hello. There are some useful ideas here. Hope this helps
https://www.plantedwell.com/shade-gardening-ideas/
https://www.simplenaturedecorblog.com/tuscan-shutter-garden/
Wind sail I think is what they are called. Amazon has them starting around $20. If you are handy and ok with using tarps, you could mimic the idea with DIY sails.
you can also buy a plastic tablecloth at the dollar store and hang it over the plants for shade using clothes pins or command hooks
I think umbrellas could work. You could even just use regular rain umbrellas. Maybe you could stick regular empty cans in the dirt so you have something into which you could put the umbrellas. Or, you could use cheap plastic party tablecloths as a tarp you can string over your garden area. You could hang the tarp from T posts maybe, or attach them to those stakes that you use for garden flags. Or you could do something like this: https://www.gardeners.com/buy/shade-kit-4-x-8/8598156.html
Spinwheels / windmills
I would get a couple of patio umbrellas and put them in the ground.
Perhaps a patio table umbrella..
You could use old barbeque covers or outdoor furniture cover and stake it in the ground. It would act like a small awning.
Hi Dee, hope this helps you out,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFyikxAedNY