Would I always regret buying a house with a north facing garden?

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Depends. Our north facing garden is much sunnier than our old south facing garden because it is much bigger. I thought I'd be bothered but I haven't even really noticed! I'd say if you're bothered about sun it's more helpful to look at positioning of trees and high hedges etc.

Yes, especially if it means your living room faces North too.

It's lovely both to sit in the sun on a summer evening and look out on a bright sunny, if cold garden in winter. winter Sun saves oil too. Our old front room was always cold.

We actually have the opposite problem here, both front and back gardens face South (back garden is raised up, so only the drive is in the shade of the house). Except for tiny corners under hedges, everything gets baked.

Lavender and poppies are happy, fuchsia and some bedding plants really aren't convinced.

As superlambanana says, it depends on how big the garden is and whether much of it will be in shadow from the house/trees/shrubbery.

We've got a north-facing garden at the moment and it doesn't worry me. In fact, I quite like being able to find a shady spot on a hot, summer's day.

I find the north/south divide in the house really annoying though. The difference between the amount of light and warmth between the front and back of the house is remarkable, especially in the winter.

We're moving to an east/west facing house soon, so I'm hoping that's better in terms of the amount of light that the house gets!

Sometimes you get better evening sunshine in a north facing garden. I currently have a SE facing garden & by 5pm the sun is gone - it is rubbish. I don't get home until 6pm, so only ever see the sun in the garden on the weekends!

The house I lived in before had a NNW garden & the evening sunshine was great. And even though the sun was slightly slower to come up in the garden in the morning, it was only really an issue in the winter, when we weren't really out in the garden anyway.

I had a NNW garden it was wide and long and I had no problem with light levels, I liked having a shade spot on a hot sunny day, even in winter we had sun in the garden. If you have a narrow or short garden it may be a problem.

I think it depends on the size of the garden and its surroundings. Ours is northeast facing and as we bought in early spring I was really worried about this but it was a bit of a case of beggars can't be choosers when we bought. The garden is bordered by our house, a tall fence, a monstrous Leylandia hedge and mature woods so this added to my concern. But, once summer arrived, I was pleased to find that, due to its size it does actually get really sunny, from early morning until evening, with the added benefit of always having a band of shade along the eastern boundary, the Leylandia hedge, which is to be expected. I'm a keen amateur gardener and am able to grow the whole gamut of sunloving cottage garden plants without them looking leggy or anaemic. Good luck!

Depends on the house. We have a north facing garden and it is not the warmest or sunniest, certainly. But the house is sort of atmospheric and it's Scotland where we don't really always get a whole lot of sun anyway. It doesn't necessarily detract.

really good points to consider - looks like a no then as garden is v small for the house and lots of hedges...