by Watchman » 20 Jul 2023 06:34
Spending time outside is generally good for you, even if you're just lazily lounging in your own backyard. The sun and heat can also be overbearing at times, generating intense heat and harmful radiation that chases many people indoors on otherwise beautiful summer days. Adding shade elements to your garden and around your home and windows can provide cooler spaces and can even lower your energy bill.
We previously explained how to create a map of sunlight and shade patterns, mainly to optimize sun exposure for a garden or flower bed. Yet while sunlight offers obvious benefits for gardeners, a patch of shade can be hot real estate, too, for people as well as plants, pets, and wildlife.
A sun map may reveal where shade already falls, cast by big obstructions like trees or buildings, but it's more useful for finding sunlight than avoiding it. That's because shade is often even easier to make than to map: It's as basic as blocking sunbeams to create dimmer, cooler conditions below.
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Spending time outside is generally good for you, even if you're just lazily lounging in your own backyard. The sun and heat can also be overbearing at times, generating intense heat and harmful radiation that chases many people indoors on otherwise beautiful summer days. Adding shade elements to your garden and around your home and windows can provide cooler spaces and can even lower your energy bill.
We previously explained how to create a map of sunlight and shade patterns, mainly to optimize sun exposure for a garden or flower bed. Yet while sunlight offers obvious benefits for gardeners, a patch of shade can be hot real estate, too, for people as well as plants, pets, and wildlife.
A sun map may reveal where shade already falls, cast by big obstructions like trees or buildings, but it's more useful for finding sunlight than avoiding it. That's because shade is often even easier to make than to map: It's as basic as blocking sunbeams to create dimmer, cooler conditions below. [b][size=150][url=https://www.treehugger.com/cool-ways-cast-shade-garden-4869282]READ FULL ARTICLE HERE[/url][/size][/b]
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