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Dec 17, 2021 - 02:53 PM
The best way to do something like this is to plant your shadier plants in one or two areas of your garden and use shade cloth. You can keep the shade cloth fairly far above the plants so they'd be on display, but it would protect them from full sun. For example, here is a picture of where we grow Sempervivum (another plant that's prone to sunburn) outside.
Although we don't keep the shade cloth over them in the fall, when this picture was taken, those metal frames you see allow us to create a roof of shade cloth over all of the plants. There's plenty of room for people, and even forklifts, to move under the shade cloth and work among the plants and they don't get sunburned.
We also recommend planting these types to the east of trees, buildings, or large boulders. This won't hide your plants, but it will shade them in the afternoon when temperatures are high and succulents are more prone to sunburn.
Although we don't keep the shade cloth over them in the fall, when this picture was taken, those metal frames you see allow us to create a roof of shade cloth over all of the plants. There's plenty of room for people, and even forklifts, to move under the shade cloth and work among the plants and they don't get sunburned.
We also recommend planting these types to the east of trees, buildings, or large boulders. This won't hide your plants, but it will shade them in the afternoon when temperatures are high and succulents are more prone to sunburn.
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