Creating Shade In The Garden
In Perth with its hot climate and long summers shade is extremely valuable and becoming harder to find especially in a suburban environment. Try spending time outside your new house in the middle of summer which is surrounded by concrete/pavers and the heat can be unbearable. There is a term used for the accumulated heat from all the buildings, concrete/pavers, roads that can be significantly hotter than what the area was when it was more heavily vegetated which is known as the urban heat island effect.
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