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hilary
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I was wondering what experience anyone has had with shading a green house with green fleece. Having moved here to Suffolk in the autumn and now in proud possession of a 22ft greenhouse, shading will be an issue. Loathed to paint white, and have read that green fleece can be used but I was wondering just how successful it is. It will look better from the house, being right next door to the conservatory and hopefully easily attached to a metal frame work.
Any ideas, comments?

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These types of shading work perfectly well in my experience ( sorry, I've been lazy and posted entire page of link)

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=green ... 44&bih=669

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Thanks Pa Snip -
definitely will go down the route of netting not fleece. Just need the sun to shine now!

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I use that green netting too, has to be the dense type. works very well. (I am lazy, and peg it to the outside!)
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Well many of the manufacturers of those mini plastic greenhouses seea green coloured plastic cover so I guess they would have experimented with that, rather than a white version, before putting them on the market, to ensure they didn't have an adverse effect on the plants inside them.
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