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Caroline139
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What plants (greenery?) will survive autumn/winter in my front garden; one wall faces NE & the other NW (wind & sun have both damaged previous efforts!) ????
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If you live in the UK then any plant described as hardy should survive. My garden faces NW in Scotland and I suffer no losses in a normal winter except in the winter of a few years ago when the snow and ice lay thick all over for 6-7 weeks and even then all that I lost were a couple of hebes and a couple of penstemons.
On the Royal Horticultural Society's website there is a very useful tool called 'Find A Plant' (used to be called 'Plant Selector').
www.rhs.org.uk/plants/search-form
You can enter the aspect, light levels, moisture levels, soil type, season of interest, etc and get results of plants suitable, which may give you some ideas, if nothing else.
Hope this helps.
pbff
Exposure can be more of an issue than the aspect alone, so what else do you have there, and what else is around you? Wind will cause a lot of damage - often more than sun or cold temperatures. Heavy rain is another if the soil is heavy and the plants you've had are unsuited to those conditions.
As philippa says, have a look at neighbouring gardens to give you a few pointers too.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...