North facing garden

[TeaChocKitKat]

I am hoping to move house soon. Ive seen a house i love in a great location which ticks all of my boxes but Ive realised the garden is north facing. Im no sun worshipper but I am a fairly keen gardener. The garden is quite overgrown at the moment so is very much a project but is a north facing garden a real no go? Can you grow anything in it? The house is perfect apart from that!

My first house had a north facing garden and since then it’s always been pretty much the only thing that would make me not even bother going to view a house for sale. It just didn’t bring me any joy, and looking after the garden became a chore for me.

I’ll compromise on anything else, but a north facing garden is just a flat out no.

We moved from a place with a south facing Garden to one with North facing and much prefer it. In the south facing garden you couldn't escape the sun all day - in noth facing the end closest to the house is in shade most of the day, but in summer there is always sun in the bottom half (garden is roughly 8m or 25 feet long and it's a standard 2 story house). Even close to the house one side gets sun in the morning and the other in the evening - so no where is totally sunless.

To be fair though, I don't have green fingers at all so not sure how much that might change things!

Depends how big the garden is?our garden is north facing but quite big,it gets quite a lot of sun.

We have a North facing garden. All of it gets some sun and two thirds of our gets sun the whole day in summer.

Our neighbour's garden is shorter and gets less sun, but they are talented gardeners and it's such a beautiful garden. I think they've probably been careful in their choice of plants.

So check how long the garden is compared to the house. And be reassured that really good gardeners seem to be able to make it work incredibly well.

Depends on size of garden and how much shadow it gets from the house. We’ve had north facing gardens that got a lot of sun.

It’ll get sun first thing in the morning and last thing in the evening between the equinoxes, ie March to Sept. You probably won’t be up early enough to appreciate the morning sun though! Depending on height of house and length of garden you may get sun at the far end.

My north facing garden has: Euphorbia robbiae and giffithsii, Lysimachia, Caltha palustris, Juniper, Magnolia stellata, Rosa gallica, Chaemomeles, Ajuga, woodruff, Japanese maple, a creeping Veronica, ferns, a variegated grass, holly, lily of the valley - these are all close to the house. Further away from the house is where I put my sun lovers.