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Garden orientation and the sun....

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  • Thanks for all the replies and also the links to other map sites. Looks like the garden is long enough to catch sun most of the day, only problem is the back rooms will possibly be in the shade permanently.

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    Neil
  • Can't see your links (web filter presumably my end) but a 30ft north east facing garden with nothing of real height to the east should get Ok morning sun and be OK in height of summer.
    Shadows and shade coverage in winter will be totally different though I would say. We have a roughly NNE facing 80ft garden with nothing too much to teh east side and get about half the gareden in shade during autumn/winter months due to the house's own shadow. Point is I would be wary about a 30ft N facing garden if you like sunny and bright rooms and a sunny garden all year round

    Best option is obviously go an see it especially in this current sunny spell
  • chris_m
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    The_JinJ wrote: »
    only problem is the back rooms will possibly be in the shade permanently.

    In summer mornings (mid-June) the back room will have sunlight almost full-on, reducing gradually till about mid-morning at a guess, after mid-morning no direct sunlight.
    Between September and April they'd have no direct sunlight at all.
  • I'm going to view it again in the next few days. It is more summer (if we get one) that I'm curious about tbh.
    Neil
  • chris_m
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    The Photographer's Epheremis (http://photoephemeris.com/) can give sun angles and elevations for any location and date/time - principally aimed at photographers (coz we're fussy about our light LOL) but may be of help for this sort of thing too.
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