North West facing gardens

VfM4meplse

Starbrite wrote: »

Wouldn't it be easier to move to a south west facing garden, than to work out the maths?

Presumably a similar house on the other side of the street would be have a SE facing garden.

OP - from experience, I would always pick a south / SW / west facing rear garden and accept that the other side will be dark unless first thing in the morning. I'm sick of having to dry my laundry indoors for 7-9 months of the year.

sims01

Svenena wrote: »

I have a question. When people talk about eg north facing gardens, which way do you stand to know where the garden faces? If the garden is to the south of the house, is that a north facing or a south facing garden? I'm assuming that would be south facing (so a garden therefore faces away from its house), but I'm not sure.

North facing means the garden is to the north of the house - meaning the part of the garden close to the house (where you could have a terrace, dining area or similar) is in the shade.

Mr_Thrifty

You could put mirrors on the fence at the back of the garden

franklee

I reckon a NW facing garden will have summer sun on the back of the house from mid afternoon ish to late evening in the summer but no sun on the back of the house in winter. Unless there are buildings to to side casting shadows. I lived somewhere NNW once and it was too hot to sit on the patio next to the house in the height of summer but in winter the sun didn't get round that far. However half the garden was still sunny, it was about 30ft square. I'd be happiest with anything from SW to NW. Can you ask the vendor to show you some of their summer photos? I put a selection of mine in a small album that I had to hand so viewers could see where the summer sun went.

Running_Horse

Ours is NW (I think) and about 50ft long. I spend most of my time avoiding direct sunlight and sitting in the cool evening shade. If you want constant unbearable heat, emigrate.

kurgyb

Running horse - I would be delusional if I wanted unbearable heat in the uk throughout the year. The problem we have at the minute is a very mushy mossy lawn for half of the garden, maybe decking could help this problem in new property

sammyjammy

I would never buy another house with a North East facing garden. When I bought my house 13 years ago at the age of 27 I couldn't have cared less, it didn't even occur to me.

Now I'm a keen gardener and have to deal with a lawn that is virtually moss. Even worse the house next door to me is one storey higher and I therefore have an 8 foot wall on the South East edge of my garden meaning I don't even get that early morning sun before it disappears.

Even it had a long garden I'd write it off!

silvercar

We have a north facing garden. Most of it gets sun most of the time, but there is one corner of the patio nearest the house that never gets sun.