South-East facing long narrow garden with local trees

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New house and garden is SE facing.
House long Victorian semi, and garden is long and narrow.

I understand we will have great sunshine in the morning-lunchtime, but due to work & children clubs, will never get to enjoy.

The house is on a main road, so enjoying the sunshine at the front of the house in the late afternoon to early evening is not possible.

With the garden being long, would it mean that we could get to enjoy being in the sun at the bottom of the garden late afternoon to early evening?

The new house doesn’t have trees in the garden.
However neighbours from each side do have large trees.
With the garden being narrow, and having these trees, will they effect the possible of later sunshine in the garden?

My current home has a small NW garden (the later sunshine don’t bother me, as we are not at home then) however because of a neighbours tree, we lose 100% of ALL garden sunlight by 3pm in the height of Summer - and even earlier Spring-early Summer and in September, all because of the tree and because our garden is small.
I don’t want history repeating itself by moving somewhere and we are in the same situation again!

I know ideally we need a S, W or SW garden … and I wish this house had that. Will we be OK being SE, based on being long?
With it being narrow, and neighbouring trees, will that cause problems for later sun somewhere in the garden?
I have attached a rubbish diagram 😂

In summer, what time do you think will the sun (in part of course) stay in the garden?
Anyone have similar gardens?

We have similar. Yes you will get sun at end of your garden until it goes behind houses (your house probably) or trees in west direction. But obviously same would apply if you were West facing - at some point house/trees will block sun. But if its long enough then you will get sun as long as anyone in a terrace in an urban area gets it!

@SD25 in the summer, what time you get sun to? Do you have any trees to the west?

only til around 7pm but our garden isn't very long. if yours is long, then should be as long as if it was west facing - the issue is what's in the way, no matter which direction you face!

try this; www.suncalc.org/

How long is the garden?

@SD25 thanks

@oviraptor21 garden is about 70 ft long, and 18 ft wide. Next door to the right (south-west side of fence) has about 20 ft of trees directly behind the fence. I’m worried that these trees alone will take out the entire chance of any sunlight after 4pm? Or do you think we might have a chance still of a bit of sun at the bottom of garden, despite right side neighbours trees?

If it makes any difference when sun is coming from the west .. house is not attached to right side neighbour, however only a width of a gate separating the houses.

I'm not sure but our neighbours huge willow tree shades our garden so no washing dries from 4pm even if it's still hot! The tree is at the end of our garden though and it's shorter than yours. We had exact same issue in our previous house so I'm wary of neighbours trees now!

@Aria20 I so understand !! That is my current situation too .. dp thinks it will be fine and because the garden is long (narrow though) he feels there will be a spot somewhere.

Dp did say it will be fine on our current garden before we got it 8 years ago … so I do dearly hope he is right now !!

I am just stressing so much as I really don’t want to make the same mistake all over again.

Lol all the threads on here about bbqs and trampolines being anti social in gardens.... bloody giant trees are more of a nuisance to me... I appreciate they are good for the environment and all that but surely keep them under control?!

@Aria20 😂
a few years ago we offered to pay for the maintenance of the tree on our current garden that blocks our sun on entire garden. They declined to put it politely. We tried to explain whilst also being careful to be polite and come across well etc.
My impression, might be wrong, was they simply had no interest because the overgrown tree gave them fabulous privacy and the their tree doesn’t block their sunlight at all so what’s the issue?

This is why I have been a stress head over this issue. Dp is pushing for this house .. I just hope he is right.

And I hope you are in a much better situation one day too!