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Will a garden get the same amount of sun each year?
fat_boy_slim_11
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Last year my garden received 8 hours of sunlight a day but i was talking o someone online and they seem to think that the amount of sun you receive each year can change.
How true is this?
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It will alter throughout the year depending on the way it faces and the position of buildings/trees etc. and of course it also depends upon cloud cover.
But each part of your garden should receive the same amount of exposure to sunlight from year to year, depending of course upon weather conditions.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If you have growing trees, this will also affect the amount of light some parts of your garden receive.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
8 hours of sunlight on which day?
It's the same every year, as Dove says, but it changes through the year. From least at the winter solstice (December) to most at the summer solstice, (June).
In the sticks near Peterborough
Disregarding any environmental changes, then yes light levels for that time of year tend to remain the same as previous years. Obviously time of year will affect light levels, but growing trees or shrubs, or any other larger structures could make an impact, as well as weather.
I suppose the most simple answer would be a conditional "yes."
We get near enough the same amount of daylight on any given date every year.
As for sunshine.... that's a different matter
Billericay - Essex
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Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I wish. Having a south facing garden two sides, North facing one side and East tother we get to see four differing aspects. We watch the sun get higher in the sky as the days pass to its zenith which is not what I saw in the Desert where the sun rose to a point above where for a brief moment we had no shadow. There you knew the day would be twelves hours long where as our day can be four in the morning to very late evening or eight hours in winter if you are lucky. With a south facing greenhouse if you are away for the day you plan on it being solid sunshine, vents and doors open fans set on a thermostat and the floor damped down. You come home find it was bitter cold and your tomato's leaves are blue. You cannot forecast how much sun you will get in a NE coastal region and never will. The light can be regular the sunlight hit and miss, one day at noon a few years back it was pitch black as a bad storm rolled in. I take what comes.
Frank
Saving a change in the earth's rotation on its axis and its orbit round the sun you can expect the same light levels from one year to the next on all sides of your house with the most sunlight being in southerly and westerly aspects.
The variables will come from cloud cover, tree and shrub growth, new builds or extensions next door and, less likely, potential cooling and shading from catastrophic volcano eruptions shading the sun as happened around 1300AD.