The Tucson sun is relentless. Despite our cloudless skies and abundant sunny days, many of us are reluctant to spend time outside in our yards and gardens due to the heat and brightness. Some shade is ...

The moment the air turns crisp and the afternoons feel just a little shorter, something magical happens in the yard: the garden becomes a blank slate again. Cooler weather makes heavy lifting easier, ...

What is a shade garden? Simply put, a shade garden doesn’t need lots of sunshine to survive. A shade garden might be plants sitting under a collection of trees in a corner of your property getting ...

Many gardeners love being outside in their garden on a beautiful sunny summer afternoon. But what if your garden is in a full-sun location and the air temperature is 95 degrees with a heat index of ...

In the desert, shade can be hard to come by. Trees for shade demand water throughout their entire lives, so growing for shade becomes difficult and costly. It also takes a lifetime to achieve. In the ...

ShadeFX custom builds structures and retractable shades since no two spaces are the same size and style preferences vary. The ready-to-install systems are often created through collaborations between ...

Although pergolas have been around for thousands of years and are popular throughout the world, it almost seems like these garden structures were created specially for the South. They provide welcome ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... What two words strike fear in the hearts of the most intrepid gardeners? Dry shade. That’s what Graham Rice thinks. Rice, author of “Planting the Dry Shade ...

Students will design and build a structure that can block the sun to create a shaded area and will test to see if the shady spot is cooler. Sunlight warms the Earth’s surface. Certain structures are ...

¡Sombra! Experiments in Shade is introducing artistic and functional shade structures across nine parks to combat extreme summer heat. The project helps spruce up some community parks that needed to ...