south facing garden, place planters on east or west side?

londonTiger

I have a south facing garden, unfortunatelt it's a narrow terrace and the doors, windows and boiler flue occupy the full wall so I can't benefit from the hot radiant walls to allow me to plant a few more tropical plants.

I have a 4ft by 20ft vegetable patch on the West side of the garden (near the fence). But the space is all occupied by a fruit tree, some perennials and lots and lots of spinach. The spinach remain live through the winter unfortunately and propogate.

I've added some growing space by building planters out of re-used pallet wood.

Trouble is, I can't work out the best place to put them. on the West side of the garden it gets sun right from the morning until about the afternoon.

On the East side it gets sun from 1pm until early evening. Is there much difference between plants on what sort of timings they'd prefer for the sun? Or does it not matter much?

I_have_spoken

Yes, it can matter. Plants like acers and camellias don't like the sudden warmth of the rising sun hitting them after a cold night so they'd be better off shaded until the sun comes around.