West facing garden

tiny_atoms

Thanks all. The garden is a decent size with a couple of trees at the back of it. The houses next to us are the same size as the one we are buying. So hopefully won't be a problem with shade etc.

Ithaca

We have a west-facing garden and it's great. We get the morning sun through the front of the house, then when it's hottest the sun is to the south so it stops the house overheating, then at about 1pm it breaks over the roofline and we have the whole afternoon and evening with the back garden drenched in sunshine.

Most of the week the family are at work/school during the day so what I really want is some sunshine when I get back at 5pm after work and then a lazy weekend afternoon and evening in the hammock.

Davesnave

Sea_Shell wrote: »

Can't beat a west facing garden for lazy afternoons/evenings in the summer!! (assuming all the sun isn't blocked out by other houses,trees etc.)

With modern property being close-packed and people's propensity to plant things they have no idea about, or any intention of maintaining, that can be quite an assumption!

But it's not all gloom. As someone who bought an east/west orientated bungalow and nothing at any point of the compass to create shade, I've had to grow some of my own. That small patch to the north side which never sees sun till the evening would also be my choice for young children to play in, rather than fry them on a south facing patio.

As a gardener, I see all aspects as having some advantages. It's taken around 8 years, but we now have places for all the plants we want to grow, barring the few that need damp shade. We have somewhere for those as well, but it's 150m away, so not visible from here.

I don't think many of us ever get the perfect plot.