Plants
Green plants produce shade by absorbing sunlight to invest as energy in photosynthesis to produce sugar. They also actively transpire, producing an additional cooling effect.
In gardening terms, there are various types of shade:
- Full sun - more than five hours of direct sun per day.
- Part shade - two to five hours of direct sun, or all-day dappled sun (sunlight shining through open trees).
- Full shade - less than two hours of direct sun per day.
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Marne flowed by the plants nodded
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A sunset as beautiful as the Athabasca
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—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
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