Garden advise please

[VelvetComet]

Hi all,

Please can anyone give their views on this garden? It is North East facing and I've never lived in a property with a garden before so I'm a bit put off as I'd like some sun! I've looked on Suncalc, but not really finding it that helpful as it doesn't take into account the surrounding trees/buildings.

Some of the shade in the photos looks to be being cast by surrounding trees rather than a result of the orientation, but I'm not sure which ones. If the clock on the property photos is correct then these were taken around 2.30pm.

I know this garden won't be sunny all day and I'm okay with that, but I would like some sun sometimes! When/where do you think it would be likely to get sun and would you be put off?

Thanks

My garden is about the size of the decking and NE facing......

We get no sun whatsoever on the ground between october - april.

Otherwise, it is sunnier than we were expecting, we get sun at the back of the garden, moving over to the right/east side of the garden from around 11.00am - 5.00pm. We don't have a tree, but a house next to us instead.

based on an east facing garden, in the summer i reckon you will get full sun until around 2pm then it will start shading over from the side of the garden until the whole garden is in shade by 4pm.

What with climate change, the sort of temperatures & drought we saw this summer and the likelihood that it will continue in the future, you really don't want a south-facing garden with zero shade.

Thanks for the replies. Agree about a garden with no shade at all, but I don't know if this one would ever even get any sun at all on the decking, which would be a shame if it didn't. Will give it some more thought.

Our garden is Northeast facing. It’s pretty long, about 130 feet. In the summer months we get a fair amount of sunshine in different parts of the garden, including from the south and the south-west especially as we are a detached house so quite a bit of sun comes through from the gap in between our house and next door. The part near the house gets a sunshine in the morning and as the sun moves around the south facing borders get the sunshine,and then towards the end of the day the light moves gradually from the bottom to the top of the garden from the south-west. We work hard to keep our trees trimmed along the southern border and find this makes quite a difference. Looking at your photo, you have got a tricky area to the right of the swings. It’s not clear from the aerial photo whether the house is a semi or detached, but if detached there may be a gap for the Sun to hit that area in the afternoon, although this would mainly be in the summer months. Even so, you could expect quite a few things to grow well there. Have you any idea how recently the photos were taken? That would give you some idea regarding the shady areas.

W’ve got a NE facing garden, not large. It gets plenty of sun (in summer): you just have to get rid of the idea that the only place for sitting is right outside the house. I designed ours on a diagonal, so we have a small patio in the east-facing corner outside the house that gets the sun in the morning, and a large raised patio at the end of the garden that gets absolutely loads in the afternoon and into the early evening, certainly in summer when the sun is high. One side and corner are perpetually in shade, but filled with shade loving plants.

This.

The decking should get sun on summer mornings from about 10 until 1. Nice for summer lunches. I'd prune back the trees on the east boundary (I can't tell which garden they are rooted in), and build a paved area at the end of the garden with seating.

Also, we'll be grateful for shade if last summer's heat becomes more common.

My garden is true north, but house is a bungalow and detached with good space to either side. My garden and patio has full sun all summer and parts of spring and autumn. Sorry I can't be more precise, I've not paid too much attention.
My kitchen is at the back and there are no trees on the east side for the depth on the patio. In the summer I even get a little sliver of sunlight into the house in the morning till about 10am. You'd get more as you'll be turned a lmore towards the rising sun. I love it because the kitchen stays cooler in the summer so cooking is not unbearable.
In winter I have sun fully on the back half of my garden, but my garden is very long, maybe 150ft. I've got a lot of trees all round the boundary too, but all on the east side and most on the west are deciduous so don't affect the sun in winter. So if I want to sit in the sun on a winters day in my back garden I can.
I can't tell you what it's like today as it's very overcast and deary here, no sun to be seen!

My garden is nw facing and we get sun in it until about 5pm during the summer. Our sitting area is away from the house and in the place that gets the most sun. I think if you bought this house @VelvetComet I would look at where the sun shines & then look to moving the decking to that area. We have multiple sitting areas which is something you could do

Agree about moving the seating area to the sunny bit. You know it will get some sun, you can see it in that photo! I would just put a nice patio down there, if you want to sit in the sun.

It's the best of both worlds really - shady bit for boiling hot days, sunny bit for when it's a bit cooler. Perfect!

I have a NE garden. Ask them for photos of it in the summer to check the sun? They’ll likely have some personally - id provide them if people asked. It really depends on the orientation.

We are detached with no shade from neighbouring houses. The patio near the house gets sun all morning, then in the afternoon there’s about 2ft of shade from the house. The rest of the garden is full sun, it is ridiculous. I’ve had to buy the extra large parasols and dot them around for the kids and dog. We have a main patio midway down the garden and it was too hot to sit on a lot of this summer

I’ve a NE facing back garden. It’s an out 50 metres long though with nothing blocking the sun to the west. We have a slightly raised decking area at the back of the garden so get a lot of sun throughout the year. We get sun at the back doors until about 1pm then it moves up the garden. I love it.

Thanks all. A seating area at the bottom seems like the way forward and it doesn't sound as though its something I should be too put off by.