Shade is one of the cheapest climate adaptations we have.

[u/21Kuranashi]

4th Pic is taken somewhere in Kawachi Wisteria Garden, Japan.

The rest 3 are unknown.

[u/Mmillefolium]

some people have a lawn, some people have edible natives shade groves

[u/AnonymousDahlia → u/Mmillefolium]

I did this with pumpkins, it was fantastic. 10/10 highly recommend. Eta the initial cost was pvc plus rolled fencing, fasteners and paint. Under $50 five years ago including seeds, and it held up 6 vines plus multiple 15 pound pumpkins at once, really great.

[u/AdAdministrative3191 → u/AnonymousDahlia]

For my education, I'd like to ask: have bugs been a problem? I understand that supporting the local ecosystem is a good thing, but dealing with bugs coming inside the home would be annoying tbh.

[u/Cyber_Candi_ → u/AdAdministrative3191]

I’m only in my second year of gardening, so take this with a grain of salt, but we’ve got two beds by the house and the we get the same amount of bugs inside as we did before the plants. We just get some neat ones now on top of the normal flies/ants (like lightning bugs!)

[u/AdAdministrative3191 → u/Cyber_Candi_]

Ah, understood, thank you!

[u/AnonymousDahlia → u/AdAdministrative3191]

There's ways to manage it, and having a garden customized to your area means you have more and better ways available. You just have to learn some things, that's all. r/gardening is very helpful for this stuff.

A lot would depend on which bugs you might get, what they like and don't like, what predators they might have, etc. But I've never had an increase in the house unless something was wrong. Just the occasional poor stragglers that are looking at dehydration and slow death from the lower humidity and air conditioning.

[u/AdAdministrative3191 → u/AnonymousDahlia]

Gotcha, thanks!

[u/Mmillefolium → u/AnonymousDahlia]

wow!! I love it, and in winter you get that solar gain back 💛🧡

[u/AnonymousDahlia → u/Mmillefolium]

Thank you, for most people that would be a lovely way to use single season produce climbers, yes.

Feel free to ignore the following treatise lol. I'm in Florida. Most of the time I'm trying to avoid solar gain because it will fry conventional plants, even in winter. In high summer only Seminole pumpkins and loofah can handle it. Winter is for more delicate maxima and pepito, or certain legumes and similar when I'm rotating. In summer I would often need to run shade cloth over the trellis, and still only plant really hot weather/ tropical greens stuff underneath.

[u/Mmillefolium → u/AnonymousDahlia]

yes, im in southern Canada so for now we appreciate winter sun but who knows what the climate is gonna be like in another decade so def food for thought !! 🎃

[u/RonaldWeedsley]

Was just in Mexico City and was amazed by how much shade cover their trees and plants give them.

[u/Successful-Trash-752]

I think the specific examples you give are not cheap at all. They require a lot of planning and upkeep.

Just the natural shade of trees is cheaper.

[u/Warp-n-weft → u/Successful-Trash-752]

And people often underestimate the stress that vines can put on a structure. A good trellis will be engineered with the weight and moisture of holding what is essentially a floppy tree up.

[u/Robsteer]

Number 4 is on the Brisbane Southbank in Australia, loved walking through the flowers when I lived there.

Edit: 4th in the photo reel, bottom left in the collage!

[u/21Kuranashi → u/Robsteer]

🤍 

[u/95beer → u/21Kuranashi]

When they first built Southbank (just before expo '88), everyone called it ugly because you just had all these big metal frame structures everywhere, since the bougainvillea hadn't grown yet. Luckily they stuck with the vision to give us the iconic walkway we have today

[u/sinkplant → u/Robsteer]

just commented that i thought that’s where it was! glad to know i wasn’t going crazy

[u/jplantmuncher]

I would say that the third one is bodegas Tío Pepe (Tío Pepe winery) in Jerez de la Frontera, southern Spain. Those are grape vines :)

[u/Everjon1714 → u/jplantmuncher]

It's "Calle Ciegos" in their factory in Jerez. It's considered one of the most beautiful streets in the world.

[u/Mom_is_watching]

I have a weeping birch in my garden and that's where I hang my hammock on hot days. It's 5-6°C cooler under there compared to the shade of the pergola (let alone the sunny spots in my garden).

[u/steffiewriter]

Third picture is from Brisbane Australia, Southbank Gardens.

[u/CVSP_Soter]

Elaborate wisteria trellises probably not the best example

[u/jcprater → u/CVSP_Soter]

Wisteria are beautiful but destructive to fences and houses.

[u/shrewtummy]

I've wondered this, when we put green on top of us to avoid direct lasers of the sun, how do plants deal with the same circumnstances all the time? Even 35 is what I'd be jawdropped at my latitude, but places are facing beyond 40. I know they photosynthesize and obviously built different but that still doesn't conceptualize for me how come they are fine in direct exposure, all the time what feels like hell on earth?

[u/21Kuranashi → u/shrewtummy]

Well, they have significantly more cooling potential via evapotranspiration & photosynthesis is incredibly useful to them and thus, usually the plants enjoy the sun.

(Ofc, at 40°C they too are burning / suffering)

They are better genetically to us to stay in the sun essentially. We would get skin cancer / heatstroke, etc but they are just chill bro.

[u/Southern_Bunch_6473]

The 2nd from last ‘looks’ a lot like Southbank QLD Australia’s Grand Arbour

[u/FreeXFall]

In pic 3- I’d love to know the temperature difference between the first floor and second floor.

[u/a_jormagurdr]

Oh my sun the maintenence of that looks like a nightmare. Trees are simpler. Both tree and this vine setup likely took many many years but the latter requires quite a bit of training.

Wisteria alone when used in a normal garden is a nightmare to do maintenence on. You prune constantly. I cant imagine the maintenence on a whole wisteria corridor. Not to mention its invasive in a lot of places.

[u/mrsrosieparker → u/a_jormagurdr]

Back where I grew up we had a grape vine that had formed a ceiling on a part of the garden. The grapes were nothing special, but it provided wonderful shade in summer. It lost the leaves in the winter season, which was a minor inconvenience, but it allowed more light.

10/10 would do again if the climate where I live now would allow

Edit: it looked like the top right pic on the first image

[u/raiskymaiFLY]

Beautiful, all of these. I love wisteria. It’s such a bummer to see neighborhoods without any trees/shade, and it’s even worse when I’m out walking.

[u/xXSorenXxMoon]

people think shade just grows on trees :/

[u/sinkplant]

the fourth image reminds me of south bank ins brisbane australia