Coping with the heat.

[Keith_Beef]

If I get a bikini out, guaranteed it will rain!!
Shall I dare it?

Well if your lady garden needs wetting a bit, go for it.

 

[Woody girl]

Well if your lady garden needs wetting a bit, go for it.

I have a feeling you are being a tad crude. No?
Be careful, I seem to have control of the weather with my sunnies and factor 50. I might just call for a bolt of lightning to give you a flash

 

[Falstaff]

I’m going to add a Brise Soleil to the side door and rear window currently covered with an old dust sheet. Also looking at putting some screening on rear conservatory/porch for next round of heat this summer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brise_soleil

Same principle as a pergola, they're a good solution but take a bit of a hammering from the sun and the weather. You might want to make them plastic and/or demountable for maintenance and to maybe put away for winter.

 

[Herman30]

Well if your lady garden needs wetting a bit, go for it.

You, sir, are a rotten scoundrel! No gentleman addresses a lady in such a manner!
We shall settle this at dawn in the back meadow, with pistols!

 

[nigelp]

Same principle as a pergola, they're a good solution but take a bit of a hammering from the sun and the weather. You might want to make them plastic and/or demountable for maintenance and to maybe put away for winter.

I was thinking of a removable framework of light weight wood covered in greenhouse screening.

 

[Falstaff]

That would work well, and if the frame also comes apart you can roll it up in a single bundle ready for the next season. It'll need to be able to handle wind gusts.
On my greenhouse I loose lay the screening on the outside with some soft weights, e.g. little sandbags on strings. That way it can lift up a bit, flap and fall back down again in big gusts.