What aspect?

Archiebear

I'm trying to work out what aspect my garden is and as I'm useless with a compass I'm hoping you peeps can help!
House is at very bottom of diagram; yellow circles show rough travel of where the sun goes during the day; the blue square is where I would like my greenhouse to go with new raised beds - would this be ok do you think?

The only thing that can't be moved is the newly laid patio! On the left hand side is gravel seperated from everywhere else by sleepers (hope that makes sense).

wellused

I'd go with West aspect the layout looks good to me.

Davesnave

You don't need a compass. Just go find your house on Google Maps :

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en-GB&rlz=1T4GGHP_en-GBGB487GB487&q=google+maps+uk&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x25a3b1142c791a9:0xc4f8a0433288257a,United+Kingdom&gl=uk&sa=X&ei=2coQUfjIHY6Y1AXN5IEY&ved=0CDoQ8gEwAA

safestored4

I can't quite work out your raised beds. Are they the brown shaded section? If so they seem to protrude over your boundary line into next door. How big is the tree you have drawn on the left hand side? To what extent does it shade the beds and the proposed site for the greenhouse? The more sunlight you get the better.

Archiebear

Davesnave wrote: »

You don't need a compass. Just go find your house on Google Maps :

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en-GB&rlz=1T4GGHP_en-GBGB487GB487&q=google+maps+uk&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x25a3b1142c791a9:0xc4f8a0433288257a,United+Kingdom&gl=uk&sa=X&ei=2coQUfjIHY6Y1AXN5IEY&ved=0CDoQ8gEwAA

Oh gosh, I must be really thick and I'm sure there's an obvious answer (but I'm going to ask anyway;)). I went on google maps but it doesn't tell me which way is N/S/E/W?? What I am missing?

safestored4 wrote: »

I can't quite work out your raised beds. Are they the brown shaded section? If so they seem to protrude over your boundary line into next door. How big is the tree you have drawn on the left hand side? To what extent does it shade the beds and the proposed site for the greenhouse? The more sunlight you get the better.

The brown shaded section is a brick outbuilding and crosses the boundary as it's linked to next doors outbuilding.
The tree is massive (higher than the upstairs windows) and during the spring & summer casts quite a lot of shade -even though it will mean more trekking backwards and forwards with compost etc this is why I was hoping to get my veg plot at the end of the garden where there is lots of afternoon sun. I was just a bit worried about the greenhouse getting too hot as most websites seem to say site it on the east side of the garden (except I don't know which side is east!!)

ukmaggie45

Archiebear wrote: »

(except I don't know which side is east!!)

East is where your house is.

Usually if you put your post code into Google maps/satellite it comes up with North at the top of your screen. You then have the option to rotate it in 45degree sections - so you can have any of the points, N, E, S, W at the top. The dohickey to do this is on the top left, inset into the map or satellite image. Hope this makes sense!

Archiebear

Thank you....am off to try again LOL!

Davesnave

Archiebear wrote: »

Oh gosh, I must be really thick and I'm sure there's an obvious answer (but I'm going to ask anyway;)). I went on google maps but it doesn't tell me which way is N/S/E/W?? What I am missing?

All normal maps have north at the top. It's usually only maps of individual properties that may be orientated differently.

So, reading clockwise from the top, it's north, east, south, west, or "Never Eat Shredded Wheat" if you find that hard to remember.

Archiebear

Doh! It's so easy when you know how Thank you for all your help.