shady retreat

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The website offers design tips and specific plant suggestions for a variety of native gardens, from privacy hedgerows and pots on a balcony to a shady retreat or a sunny pollinator paradise.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2022

If this occurs during the day directly in the sun without recourse to a shady retreat, cooling over the ears or increased drinking is not enough.

From Scientific American • Sep. 15, 2022

If sultry, they should have a cool, shady retreat, where they will be shielded from the flies and the heat.

From Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. by Allen, Richard L.

Throngs of mules will have defiled our clean courtyard, and will be stabled within our shady retreat beneath the walnut-tree, which will remain unswept.

From Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

Our first impulse was to leave his lordship in undisputed possession of his shady retreat; but the second thought, which held us, was to see what sort of reception the robins would give him.

From A Bird-Lover in the West by Miller, Olive Thorne