Would you buy a house with a north facing garden?

Fraise

If the north facing garden gets hardly any sun you're never going to enjoy it out there.

LisaLou1982

I have a North facing garden, and get the sun all day until around 7pm in the summer. However, this is because there are no houses directly to the West of the house, so we get the sun right up until it sets.

I previously had an east facing house and wouldnt have one again. No sun in the afternoon and the house was always cool inside.

Hoploz

I have a 60' long north facing garden. We get lots of sun, almost all day long, and we have a great cool shady patio at house end, lovely in hot summer! Great for the kids to play on in blistering heat.

The only drawback I would say is it does get chillier quicker in the evening as the sun gets lower as it goes westwards to set behind our left neighbours' high conifer hedge.

Hoploz

Oh yes forgot to add ... I have a lovely cool kitchen all summer across the back of the house when the south front rooms are hot!

notanewuser

I love our north facing garden. We live part way up a hill so only the first metre from the back of the house are in shade in the summer. It's a wide garden rather than long (approx 30m x 15m) and we have no problems growing soft fruit, veg, lettuce etc or plants (as long as we don't put hanging baskets on the back of the house.)

vic_sf49

I have a north facing garden that's about 30 feet, well to be exact, about 15 degrees east of north.

I get sun in it from about early March to November, and as the rest of the year is too cold to do much in the garden, it doesn't bother me.

My plants thrive, and the shade my house affords me in the summer is bliss - no need for an expensive sunshade.

Remember, the sun doesn't rise bang on to the east, and set exactly to the west, and will get high enough to clear the roof of your house.

SailorSam

My last house had a north facing back garden, it wasn't very big and so if you sat at the very bottom in one corner you had a couple of hours sun. Then it was very heavy clay so whenever there was heavy rain it became a pond which could take days,even weeks to disappear.
When i was house hunting top of the list had been somewhere to park, and i'd never had a garden so the north garden didn't bother me. But now i'd put a sunny garden nearer the top of the wish list.

mike0090

Wouldn't deter me at all, infact I've just bought a house with a north facing garden. The garden backs onto trees so it is not overlooked, would much rather have a garden that is north facing that is not overlooked than a south facing garden that is. Although tbh I'm not much of a garden person only time I use my garden is in summer when the sun is at its highest anyway so should get a good light covering most of the day.

Mrs_pbradley936

It all depends - if you are a keen gardener or like the outdoors then no you would not buy this house. If you are not a keen gardener and would be happy to stay inside a lot if the house had everything else going for it then you might be tempted.

wiogs

alberty wrote: »

Silly is unfair. To me and my unborn children and future wife I think living space and proximity to jobs will give them greater benefit in their development and opportunities than optimal garden direction.

If silly is unfair then why did you bother to use the word?