To wonder why anyone would choose to buy a house with a north facing garden?

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Currently trying to find a new house and every time I think we’ve found one that ticks all the boxes, a quick look on street view shows it has a north facing garden!!

A woman at playgroup was going on about how lucky she was that she had a shady north facing garden! It’s dark, damp and nothing seems to grow there except moss! She does have very pasty kids mind.

Am I missing something? Are they so bad?

Bitchy?!?! What is so awful about it?

Back to the gardens though - I stand corrected!

Our garden is North facing and it is very sunny throughout the day. We have a conservatory so it is lovely to sit in ,during the afternoon.

It's awful because you are sneering about their colouring.

I have no idea what way my house 'faces', I have garden on 2 sides, but don't go out in it unless I have to

I hung out washing today at about 4pm in our North facing garden and it was dry by 6 .

I have a north facing garden - it's totally fine. No moss, plants thriving.

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I think OP is white too…

Depends on the length of your garden and how close and tall neighbouring buildings are. If its a big garden you'll still get the sun. When it's out. Which in this country is not that often anyway.

White European, yes. Pasty I wouldn’t say.

Last time I looked, the Sun was in the sky and we move relative to it.

This means all sides of the house and gardens get light and shade in different parts of the day. Because the Sun is above the house, not parked across the way in number 8's front garden.

I hate sitting in the sun, and I enjoy shade gardening. North-facing would suit me just fine.

I grew up with a North facing garden, it was really practical. There was a nice shaded by the house part that was great for when the sun got too muchamd where yhe kids could play without constant suncream top ups, and the end was lovely and sunny for when you wanted to bake. My last house was truly south facing and it was too hot a lot of the time to let our children play out for too long!

We have a NE garden and it's lovely. It gets loads of sun, especially late-afternoon, which is when you need it for dinner, drinks, etc.

Loads of plants like shadier gardens. Camellias love it, and bluebells. We can grow anything. I found shade-tolerant roses for round our back door, and we have huge pots of happy herbs.

I thought north-facing garden would be dark and dank but honestly, it's lovely. You wouldn't even know it's north.

I have it and much prefer it, it does get sun but also lots of shade and never too hot in summer. I have friends with south facing gardens and they get far too hot, the dogs and kids can't sit out too long in it

My south facing house (ie north facing back garden) is actually brighter than my old house, because we never have to close the curtains in the living room against the sun!

I love our house. We're lucky to have an enclosed front garden, so I can sit out there in the winter with a cuppa. Back garden can get wet over the winter, but it's lovely always having some shade in the summer.

Tbh there are so many more important things than orientation. There's location, size, layout, parking, neighbours, before you even get to worrying about the exact number of hours of direct sunlight from November to January.

My house is built on moorland, sits in a dip but is also at the top of a massive hill. The soil in heavy clay less than a foot down and acidic. The garden is so steep the bedroom windows are level with the road outside. It wraps around the house and is enormous, with a huge part of it being Noth facing.
What I do have is an amazing space with a sea view at the back. It's my sanctuary, one I open to the public for charity a couple of times a year and have won awards for. It may not be the easiest of spaces but you simply need to know what grows well in what conditions.
The pasty kids comment is a bit dickish.

I have a South East facing back garden and am as "pasty" as they come. I apologise for my lack of melonin or if my pale white skin causes anyone any concern.

Quite. I'm fair-skinned. And perfectly happy with the natural colour of my skin.

Hated having a north facing garden. My house was always freezing cold. It was dark too. Would never choose one again.

Had a NW garden which also had some big trees but unless have big buildings or thick conifers surrounding casting more dense shade, it's not like it gets no sunshine and you just need to select the right plants to suit partial-full shade, seen some fabulous examples that have a more jungle or woodland vibe with lots of textural plants. Air flow dries washing, its faster in full sun but then it can also bleach fabrics and other materials out in the garden over time.

Have more SW garden now and it's often too bloody hot to enjoy in summer and just hanging washing out makes me sweaty so I don't want to sit out or potter about doing weeding as i used to in NW garden. In equal properties I'd be more likely to avoid full sun as I'm not a heat lover, but garden orientation wouldn't be high up in my priorities.

I wasn't implying "inverse racism" , if that's what you're rolling your eyes at because I'm not thst sort of twat. I was commenting that OP was sneering at a physical characteristic, in this case having fair, not tanned skin. It's as bitchy at sneering at blonde or ginger hair, or ears that stick out or a hooked nose. It's simply uncalled for.

We have a big long north facing garden and a conservatory. If it was south facing the conservatory would be boiling hot all summer, as it goes it gets the sun from about 5pm so we enjoy lovely relaxed sunny evenings in it.

Good proportion of garden has sun all day, but I guess that's because it's long.

We have one, it's lovely, 200 feet long so plenty of sun and shade if we want

One side must face south to get the sun