Northeast facing garden

sgun

EmmyLou30 said:

For new builds those gardens sound huge! But you said it was up north......just shows what a difference that makes. 
My garden is north facing, 12m x 12m ish. We have kitchen/diner at the back of the house with patio doors. I think if you've big windows/doors then even in winter it's light enough and as others have said south facing rooms are unpleasant in high summer anyway.

It's near Glasgow - they aren't going to need to worry about this mythical hot summer sun.

emcb20

sgun said:

EmmyLou30 said:

For new builds those gardens sound huge! But you said it was up north......just shows what a difference that makes. 
My garden is north facing, 12m x 12m ish. We have kitchen/diner at the back of the house with patio doors. I think if you've big windows/doors then even in winter it's light enough and as others have said south facing rooms are unpleasant in high summer anyway.

It's near Glasgow - they aren't going to need to worry about this mythical hot summer sun.

I know - I don't even why I'm even bothering, it will probably be an issue on about 5 days per year!
Thanks for the feedback. The gardens are a really good size, even compared to other new build estates here. I think it's a benefit of the particular builder. 

emcb20

Thanks very much everyone. Some great info here and lots to think about! 

skm1981

My sister and sister in law both have north-east facing gardens.  My sister's garden is probably 60ft long and she does get good sun in the height of the summer, but come 4 o'clock you're right down the end of the garden.  My sister in law's garden is a lot shorter and you're losing sun pretty early there.

I have a south-west facing garden currently and we get so much sun and I absolutely love it.  I guess it depends how important it is to you.  For me, it's quite a big deal.  I love sitting in the garden.  

SaintJudy

I used suncalc.net to find out where the sun hits the place I'm buying, my living room in my current flat is south facing and it can be unbearable in the height of summer, I want to avoid that again!

pimento

Our last house had a very long (100') north east facing garden and our patio was down the other end so it got some sun. It was a lovely garden but it always annoyed me that there was no sun outside the back door except for very early in the morning so when we moved I wouldn't view houses with north or east facing gardens.
We now live in a much smaller house with a much smaller garden (30') but it faces due west so we get the sun all afternoon and the front of the house where the living room is gets the morning sun. I much prefer it.

Vestraun

Try using this site, https://findmyshadow.com/. 
It's best if you upload an picture of your site plan oriented correctly and then make sure your scale is correct and add the buildings and you will be able to tell exactly when you will get shade and shadow. Very important you get the height of all buildings correct though. 

AnotherJoe

My current house has a wrap around garden and i found in the hot summer days i was always in a shady spot, but i hate sitting out in the sun, and with the grandkids over we put a gazebo up to keep the sun off them so wont have that as an issue in the new one because my new (to me) house will be N facing so we'll see how that works out but theres a lot of fancy planting in it so its certainly not the desolate wasteland that an earlier poster indicates you might get.

To me the issue is more how bright the house is rather than the garden, and that depends where the rooms face. That i suspect might be more of an issue for you, as you say. My current kitchen is NW facing and it is somewhat darker than I'd prefer, OTOH were it S facing i might have to have blinds up all the time in summer.