To think this garden will be ok?

[Marino]

Excuse the blurry pic, just to give a rough idea on sizes. It's a fairly small new build garden and unfortunately north facing! Ticked plot is ours.

We don't have the garage from the original plans, so my logic is it may be ok as with no garage there's room for sun to come in through there, we will get sun at bottom half of garden (atleast half, right?) and in the summer months when it's up high we'll have plenty.

Am I right, or am I daft?

We have a north facing garden. I don't know anything about these things, and it is sent something we considered when we bought the house, I only realised with was north facing when ds bought himself a compass. But it gets sun all day long, in fact there is no shade and I hate that in the summer. I don't get it. But my point is, North facing can be fine!

If you look at a satellite view of similar sized and positioned house you can see how much sun the garden may get. Most of the imaging is done midsummer and early to mid day.

I’d say you have absolutely nothing to worry about OP. I’m in a new house which looks a similar layout and proportions to your. Two storey but our back garden bit more north-west facing. We get plenty of sun.

I think you are right that the red shaded area will get a lot of sun and that spot behind where your garage would be will be lovely to sit out in into the evening.
The only caution I would stress is don’t grass the area between your house and west-neighbours garage if it going to get a lot of use. The bit of grass we have near the house in shade struggles (not helped that we have clay soil). It was fine until ruined by the kids playing basketball on it and is hard to bring back to presentable as it hardly gets the sun.

Your plot looks lovely actually I hope you really enjoy your new home and garden. Also, I personally find it a bonus not to get direct strong sun into my kitchen. It means it never gets too hot and probably looks a little cleaner than it is

With the lengthy heatwaves we have had these last two summers you might be glad of a shady garden.

I have south facing garden - it was baking all summer.

There’s an app on iPhone that’s free called sun’s path that will show you the angle of the daylight all year round

I am on my second north-facing garden. We're not shaded from the sides at all and we get loads of sun during the months that we actually want to use the garden.
Today it was lovely and sunny, and I sat in the south-facing front garden to catch some warmth, as there was no sun in the back. But it's February. A few weeks more and it'll be fine.
In the height of summer we are fighting over the tiny strip of shade against the back wall of the house!