North east garden -HELP

[Hobbies22]

Hi

We Love a dormer bungalow that we want to put an offer in on .
However the garden I have found is North east - from doing a bit of digging it would appear it’s the worse type of position for Sun☹️
We love the sun , have 2 small children , it’s a fairly good size so wanting any pros or cons
We currently have an east garden and The sun leaves us around 4.30pm so I
Miss the chance of sitting out in the garden on the evening ...
Any advice really welcome

Personally I love my NE facing garden. The garden gets sun till mid afternoon but the patio is in shade from mid morning so we can sit out there without burning which is great for me. If you love the sun though it might not be for you..

On the positive side, as the house is a bungalow it should cast less shade on the garden.. Can you visit at different times and see?

We have a North West facing garden, I was very concerned about it, but it was literally the only 4 bed house we could find at the time. I do miss the sun being in the garden late on, but the good thing is we have no near neighbours, so no other houses to create any shadow. We have recently been looking around at other properties, and we have been shocked what a difference it can make.

Can you visit it in the late afternoon. Completely depends on size of garden and surrounding building. Mine is northwest and is fine. My next door neighbour is north east and get no sun whatsoever in the afternoon. I wasnt something I even considered when we bought out house and we got lucky. If we ever move again it is definitely something I would be checking

Also there are apps you can download for free that show the path of the sun to help work out arrows. My sister used it when she was buying her house

Our previous garden was NE . It was a terraced house with an overlooked garden, the garden was maybe 7 metres deep, so not huge. The house was on a bit of a hill, which I think was in our favour.
We didn't have any sun in the garden from October until early March. So when the neighbours' gardens opposite were flooded with early spring sun ours was dark.
BUT we had sun in the garden for the rest of the year and moved the patio to the sunniest spot.
We barely had sun on the patio by the house though, but we used this shady spot to eat out during the hottest weeks in the summer.

NE facing gardens are not ideal but in most cases still do get quite a bit of sun. It does all depend on the surrounding buildings and elevation. If it's the only house in the area that fits your criteria I would certainly not dismiss it.

Have a look at www.suncalc.org/ to help you work out the path of the sun over the day.

We are buying a property with a pretty much straight north facing garden BUT it’s very long with only single storey buildings at the very end and not too much directly surrounding it so most of the garden still gets good sun. The current owners have a sun deck towards the end of the garden and a shaded patio at the back of the house. I’m quite excited about the prospect of redesigning the garden space, finding different spaces for different times of day and different planting for different areas too - shade planting can give quite a lush, jungley feel if done well. It’s not all about direct sun all the time :-) and it means the large front room is this beautiful bright light space.

Thank you for your responses so far
I love the idea of shade planting as well !
The garden is wide and long - it looks out onto open fields , idk if that changes things ?

There is a big tree that sits in the field directly outside , that when I look on google earth ( and it was in leaf) it seemed to cast a big shadow in the garden 🙁
My husband really wants the house , we are planning on putting a lot into it in terms of renovation , ( and cost) so I really don’t want to be envious of my neighbours gardens with sun ! It’s so hard as it’s not sunny currently so I don’t know how I would I even check.
Sun positioning is not my strength 🤣

Mine is NE facing and gets the sun at the top of the garden until probably 7/8pm in the height of summer. It definitely depends on the houses around you.

It also makes a difference whereabouts in the country you are in terms of temperature. A North East garden in northern Scotland will be different to South coast. We are in the north east of England and our garden faces east so the beds get sun until the afternoon then it moves round to the front of the house. We find it fine and everything grows 🤣. There is nowhere that is permanently shaded

I agree with Kopsy. We also overlook fields so the bottom of our garden has no shade from the house or other buildings and in the summer we get the sun there (if it shines!) until around 8pm

You need to find somewhere with a south west facing back garden it so nice to have sun in the back till 9.30pm in the summer

We are on the south coast, with a north facing garden. Our whole road, and the road that backs onto our gardens are bungalows, consequently our back garden has sun pretty much all day - in fact, I’d love to have SOME shade as it’s too much really!

I think the tree is a bigger issue as this is where most of your shade will come from, and given that it is already there, I don’t think the neighbours would take kindly to you asking them to trim it.

@StarintheMorning

We have a North West facing garden, I was very concerned about it, but it was literally the only 4 bed house we could find at the time. I do miss the sun being in the garden late on, but the good thing is we have no near neighbours, so no other houses to create any shadow. We have recently been looking around at other properties, and we have been shocked what a difference it can make.

Did you mean north-east? Ours is north-west and very much gets afternoon and evening sun.

Our neighbours built a raised decking area at the end of their garden so they could sit in the evening sun. The evening sun shines from the front of their house and over their garage roof, down that section of their garden. Their house casts much more of a shadow over the rest of the garden.

It's a high decking area with a handrail all around it and several steps up.