I assume that most of your courtyard has concrete or flagstone surface. If so, you could build a shade table with metal cloth sides & top, and doors to you can open to tend to your plants.
It would look more or less like a bird cage, which you can drape with shade cloth (or plant a couple of crepe myrtles to shade it). Wouldn't this get past the Vieux Carre commission?
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Kim (Fair Orchids)
Founder of SPCOP (Society to Prevention of Cruelty to Orchid People), with the goal of barring the taxonomists from tinkering with established genera!
I am neither a 'lumper' nor a 'splitter', but I refuse to re-write millions of labels.
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