East facing garden?

[cupcake78]

How much sun does an east facing garden get? Realistically. Fallen in love with a house but garden not ideal

It depends on the size and surroundings- our house backs to the east so the back garden is 'eastfacing' but we still get sun over the shadow of the house to the middle of the garden at 4pm or even later - but if the garden was shorter it would shade the whole garden by then.

It also depends what you want to do with the garden.

I wouldn't- evening barbeques out

I agree with mistlethrush; it depends on the size of the garden.

Our garden is north-east facing but is long. We're in a wooded area, so have some shading from trees but the middle section of the garden still has sun from mid-morning until the evening; the section nearest the house has morning sun and and the section furthest away has sun mid morning until mid afternoon.

i usually garden in the evening and the sun and light levels at that time are good.

Also depends on fencing. We have a big wall and that limits the sun not reaching a part of the garden at all.

Agree with all that's said here; it all depends on how long the garden is. AS for the barbecue, neighbours of ours in the UK had their barbecue and seating at the west end of a long, east-facing garden.

Is the living room at the back? Ours was in the UK, and even with UK summers, we were grateful to have a cool room in the summer.

The house is on a corner and the south side of the garden is just someone else's garden so thinking the sun will come in from that side till prob 4ish. The garden isn't very long but it's not small either, it backs onto a wood so the trees will shade it in the morning. The height of the sun will affect how much it comes over the top of the house.

Our back garden now is west facing and it's lovely. Front garden is east but we never really use it as not very private.

Their is a front garden at this house but again it's on the road so not very private.

Im going to try and get a viewing on a sunny day at tea time...wish me luck with that one cos it's a rarity at the moment

There is a garden room on the east side leads to the dinning room, lounge is on the west side, think we would change these rooms over after we've joined the dinning room and summer room together by removing the existing door and old window.

My house is set up like that and it works well in terms of sun to the back garden. We have trees on the bottom boundary, but the sun soon comes round sufficiently so that they don't shade much of the garden - what's on the southern side is much more important, and if that's just a fence or a hedge, that would mean lots of sun.