Misled about south facing garden

[heregoes74]

Hmmm... Just wondering if anyone has any advice as to what I should do (if anything) about being sold a house with a south facing garden but now we are living in the house it's very quickly dawned on me that it's not in fact a south facing garden 🤔And the compass confirms this.

Does having a south facing garden add to the value of a house (I would have thought so) so should I contact estate agents, or will they think I'm nuts. Hate the thought we have been lied to. Yes, we didn't take a compass with us and check when we viewed, on the 3 viewings it was summer and bright and sunny. Gah, it doesn't spoil the garden but does annoy me.

We have a south facing garden. But one neighbour has a huge lime tree (thankfully reduced a lot this year) which blocks the sun in the afternoon, another has a butt-ugly holly tree and pointlessly large silver birch, which blocks morning sun. The garden slopes downhill from the house, and is on London clay, so over the winter, water just pools in the soil and makes it hard to grow stuff unless it is well-adapted to soggy cold earth. The wall at the bottom of the garden is, of course, north-facing, and the plants that we grow there have to contend with shade. It's taken us quite a while to work out what will grow and flourish in this space.

My point is: you don't necessarily have an easy ride for sunshine, dry ground and easy conditions for gardening, just because it's south-facing. You can adapt and have a really nice space outside whatever the orientation, you just might have to work a bit harder to get it.

And yes, chaps, for those who are being 'clever' about saying she should have taken a compass, a compass can easily go wrong/be incorrectly calibrated.

Yeah - but you don't need a compass. You just need to look on a map. Everyone has easy access to a map nowadays. I could find the orientation of the garden of any house in the country or world, from the comfort of my sofa, should I fancy it, in a few mins.

And calling vendors cunts for either getting the orientation wrong, or even for lying is pretty harsh. I've seen threads where the OP has had their arse handed to them and I wouldn't describe this as one of them.

Surely you signed off on the boundary map when you bought it?