Just found out my garden is North facing!

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DH and I bought a house late last year, which we had viewed in August - sale took a while. When viewing the estate agent told us the back garden was South west facing - I could kick myself for taking her word for it now, but I was a naive first time buyer. The back garden has had literally no sun in the approx 6 weeks since we've lived here, so I downloaded a compass app and actually checked the aspect myself today - turns out it's North facing!

I know this is very much a first world problem but I'm really upset/disappointed, this is our first house after living in flats for years, and having a south/South west/South East facing garden was really important to me - to be honest I don't know if we would've bought the house had the EA told the truth at our first viewing.

The house is a semi but with other houses close by, and the back garden has another garden behind it. The garden is medium size I would say. Does anyone know whether it will get any sun in summer? The front of the house (inc master bedroom) gets a lot of sun even now in winter so I can imagine this will be horrible in the summer too! Feel like we made a mistake buying it.

Please don't despair, I have a north facing garden too and although there is not a lot of sun in winter, this changes dramatically in Spring and Summer. The east half of the back garden gets all the sun in the morning, and as the sun moves over, the west side gets sun later on. I grew all sorts in my garden last year, even tomatoes without a greenhouse.

During the day I read/sunbathe on the lawn and have many hours of sun. In the evening after work we sit on the patio outside the back door and soak up the last of the days rays, sometimes with a nice cool beer :)

I think you will worry less as the warmer months come in and you will see how much more light you get. You really can't judge it on the winter months.