Here are 10 ways to protect your garden from the sun this summer:
- Use sun rays to your advantage by growing sun-loving plants in a sunnier spot of the garden, near a south-facing wall. These sun lovers include:
- Plant sunflowers or sunflower seed heads in a prominent position in the garden to provide shade for smaller species nearby, such as annuals and perennials.
- Make sun umbrellas by stitching together sun intolerant plants such as agapanthus, clematis and fuchsia between sun-loving climbers such as ivy or some jasmines to make a sun umbrella. These sun umbrellas can be placed on a patio, and their sun-loving climbers will grow up and provide sun protection for sun sensitive plants such as annuals, perennials and herbs.
- Provide shade with straw sun hats in mid-summer when the sun is at its strongest by placing bundles of sun-shading straw on the ground to form sun umbrellas around sun sensitive plants in borders and beds.
- Make sun protection packs by placing sun-resistant plants into large pots and placing these sun hats around sun sensitive plants such as tomatoes, peppers and sunflowers in the vegetable garden.
- Plant a hedge along the sunniest boundary of your garden to provide summer shade for flowers and vegetables planted beneath it.
- Make sun shields by planting sun sensitive plants into larger containers or pots and placing sun umbrellas made from sun tolerant climbers around them to provide summer shade.
- Create sun shelter with a pergola by growing vines on your pergola all year round to provide summer shade for the decking underneath, creating a sun shelter in your garden.
- Grow sun-loving plants under deciduous trees such as oak and lime to provide summer shade for sun sensitive plants such as sunflowers, daisies and roses planted underneath them.
- Plant sun screen plants around the edge of the sunniest part of your garden. These sun screening plants will grow and form a sun screen to keep the sun’s rays of sun sensitive plants and will also provide summer shade. Good sun screening plants include:
- sunflower seed heads
- sunflowers
- cannas
- agapanthus
- ivy
- jasmine
FAQs:
How can sun protection be created in winter?
Sun protection can continue to be created throughout the year, not just during summer. For sun protection all year round it is best to use sun screening plants such as sun-loving vines which provide sunscreen vegetation all year round.
Does sun shade need to be removed in winter?
No, sun protection created with sunscreen vegetation (such as sun-loving vines) can continue throughout the year.
What is sun shelter?
Sun shelter in a shade created by deciduous trees which lose their leaves at the end of summer and provide sun protection during the colder months of winter and spring.
What is sun protection?
Sun protection is a sunshade created by sun-loving plants such as sunflowers, agapanthus, ivy and jasmine which provide summer sunscreen to keep sun-sensitive plants out of hot sun rays.
How can sun shelter be created in winter?
Sun shelter can be created in winter by sun-loving climbers such as ivy, which can grow up sun-tolerant trees such as lime and oak.
How is sun protection created?
Sun protection is created using sunscreen vegetation such as sun-loving vines which provide sun shelter all year round.
What are sun umbrellas?
Sun umbrellas are sun-loving sun screen plants planted in sun-protective packs which can be placed on patios.
What is sun umbrellas created from?
Sun umbrellas are sun-loving sun screen plants such as ivy and jasmine which grow up the sun-tolerant climbers such as ivy and jasmine, creating sun protection shelter.
What are sun umbrellas?
Sun umbrellas are sun-loving sun screen plants such as ivy and jasmine which grow up the sun-tolerant climbers such as ivy and jasmine, creating sun protection shelter.
Who created sun protection?
Sun shade sail was created by the Romans in Roman times for sun-sensitive plants such as sunflowers and sun-sensitive fruits and vegetables.
Conclusion:
Gardening is becoming more sun-sensitive with sunscreen plants proven to help sun-sensitive plants such as sunflowers, sun-sensitive fruits, and vegetables. Sun-loving vines are great sun screening plants that provide sun shelter all year round. Roman gardeners created sun protection in Roman gardens for sun-sensitive plants by planting sun umbrellas made from.
