South east facing gardens

[kylie122]

Pros and cons please

I'm more east south east, with lots of trees to the right side of garden
Blaring sunrises hurt my eyes
Lots of algae and moss along the right
Garden in shade after about 4pm in summer so very little sitting out till 10pm as we did when we had a west facing garden
It's a garden of two halves - the right side is rather barren but the left has developed well with burgeoning cottagey beds and even a half decent Mediterranean area

Mine is SE. There aren't really any areas in shade other than under hedges. Sun disappears by 6/7pm even in June.
Gardening wise it's fine.

@FredBair ohh really I read that it goes away by 2 pm ? Confused

[quote kylie122]@FredBair ohh really I read that it goes away by 2 pm ? Confused [/quote]
At the equinoxes, sun rises in east at 6am GMT and sets at 6pm GMT. The rest of the year its gradually moving to/from the extremes. Roughly speaking, winter solstice, rises at 9am in the SE, sets soon after 3pm in the SW, summer solstice, rises soon after 3am in the NE, sets 9pm in the NW.

At 2pm sun will be half way between S and SW, GMT. BST it”ll be nearer S.

Where the sun is at any time is the same through the whole year, provided you don’t do any clock changes. The difference between the seasons is the tilt of the Earth - if it’s tilting towards the sun, the sun will stay above the horizon for longer, and be higher in the sky

We are SSE. In the summer we get sun along one wall till about 5/6pm. But only along one wall! So, not ideal if we wanted sunny late evening bbqs/drinks.

I like having morning sun into the kitchen, it helps me wake up in the morning.

I like that in really hot weeks we lose the sun into the house by mid afternoon as that means the house starts to cool down. My parents had SW facing and it was like an oven in hot weeks as they got all the afternoon sun too.

The bed against the back garden wall (which we look at from the house) is in full shade as that wall faces N. I hadn’t thought of this and assumed things would grow easily everywhere as it’s a S facing garden. But that bed has been tricky.

Just to clarify there is one corner of the garden that still gets sun until 6/7 pm. It's an L shaped garden so that bit is away from the shadow of the house.

Our garden faces SE. It’s small but has quite a few trees (including at the end boundary) so plenty of shady spots when it’s too hot to sit on the patio adjoining the house. Only the end of the garden has evening sun & that’s got a shed in the way which is the main downside.