Native mesquite tree inspires creation of special greenhouse
Inventor Michael Ray hopes to make it easier with his Nurse Tree Arch, a structure that taps into plant biology as well as environmental conditions to grow plants indoors.
“I’m creating a microclimate that I can control,” says Ray.
Ray, an avid gardener, was inspired by the way leafy native mesquites provide the shade that nurses plants underneath it.
His arch is a wood-framed structure that acts as a greenhouse in the winter and a “shade house,” as Ray calls it, in the summer.
Its walls are made of translucent Solexx panels, some of them removable, that diffuses light and traps warmth. The dome roof is covered by rollable Aluminet shade cloth and removable Solexx panels.
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