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Help wanted.. east facing garden.

stelennystelenny Posts: 6
in Problem solving
Hi all. I’m wondering if anyone could give an educated guess as to hours of sunshine in the garden attached. 

We’re moving house and were after a south or west facing back garden for afternoon / evening sun, this house doesn’t tick that box but does tick many others. The garden is directly east - for morning sun until 2-ish?....

..my question is, do you think the patio area in the back corner of this garden would get sun until later? It’s behind where the lower garage area of the house is. The owner told us it got sun until 7pm in the summer.. but I’m really not sure from what I’ve researched. 

If anyone has experience of similar - I’d love to know. 

Thank you. 

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  • stelennystelenny Posts: 6
    I should add. The part of the house were the garage is is north facing. 
  • SophieKSophieK Posts: 244
    It is possible in summer and the sun is higher than it is now.
  • AngelicantAngelicant Posts: 130
    I believe there is an app you can use that will show you how the sun moves round your house but don't know what it's called sorry. It used to be available on Google Earth but I haven't been able to find it since they produced the swishy new version.
  • stelennystelenny Posts: 6
    SophieK said:
    It is possible in summer and the sun is higher than it is now.
    Thanks Sophiek 
  • stelennystelenny Posts: 6
    Angelicant said:
    I believe there is an app you can use that will show you how the sun moves round your house but don't know what it's called sorry. It used to be available on Google Earth but I haven't been able to find it since they produced the swishy new version.
    Interesting. Had a Google but not found it yet. Will keep googling. 
  • edhelkaedhelka Posts: 2,351
    edited March 2021
    It's lovely. I love the trees and how private it feels. On the other hand, the trees will shade it a bit.
    I have an east-facing garden (slightly to the south but mostly to the east). It gets sun until 2 pm (right next to the house wall) to 4 or 5 pm (the other side of the garden). I have a seating area in the corner that gets the evening sun through the gap between houses.
    This garden looks wider than my garden and although your house is higher than mine, I think that the end of the garden will have sun for quite a long time. The patio seems to be only shaded by the lower part (garage?) of the house and there is also a gap between houses. So I think that 7 pm sun there is realistic.
  • stelennystelenny Posts: 6
    edhelka said:
    It's lovely. I love the trees and how private it feels. On the other hand, the trees will shade it a bit.
    I have an east-facing garden (slightly to the south but mostly to the east). It gets sun until 2 pm (right next to the house wall) to 4 or 5 pm (the other side of the garden). I have a seating area in the corner that gets the evening sun through the gap between houses.
    This garden looks wider than my garden and although your house is higher than mine, I think that the end of the garden will have sun for quite a long time. The patio seems to be only shaded by the lower part (garage?) of the house and there is also a gap between houses. So I think that 7 pm sun there is realistic.
    Edhelka thank you so much for the detailed response. Yes, the part where the decking is located is where the garage is, so I did wonder whether that might get the sun for longer. Also with it being where the gap is next to the other houses I wondered if that would help. Although the garage / gap is on the north side so I didn’t know if that would impact.

    it is a nice private garden though, so that’s nice. 


  • edhelkaedhelka Posts: 2,351
    stelenny said:

    Yes, the part where the decking is located is where the garage is, so I did wonder whether that might get the sun for longer. Also with it being where the gap is next to the other houses I wondered if that would help. Although the garage / gap is on the north side so I didn’t know if that would impact.
    It depends on the exact orientation. My gap is to WNW and it aligns well with the setting sun in summer. Use something like suncalc.org to check.
  • stelennystelenny Posts: 6
    edhelka said:
    stelenny said:

    Yes, the part where the decking is located is where the garage is, so I did wonder whether that might get the sun for longer. Also with it being where the gap is next to the other houses I wondered if that would help. Although the garage / gap is on the north side so I didn’t know if that would impact.
    It depends on the exact orientation. My gap is to WNW and it aligns well with the setting sun in summer. Use something like suncalc.org to check.
    The orientation is exactly East for the back garden. 
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