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North or North-East?
We are buying a new-build on a development. There are two houses up for grabs with 60 foot gardens.
One of the houses has a North facing garden and the other has a North-East facing garden. Which would you choose? PS we are in South London. Thanks |
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Personally I'd think that light into the rooms of the house might be more important. I like having an east-facing bedroom (sun in the morning) and a west-facing lounge (sun in the evening). Assuming that you are heavily overlooked by buildings fomr teh side, an EW oriented house is ideal for me. Though less useful for putting solar cells on the roof. |
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"deebs" wrote We are buying a new-build on a development. There are two houses up for grabs with 60 foot gardens. One of the houses has a North facing garden and the other has a North-East facing garden. Which would you choose? PS we are in South London. Whichever you choose with a 60ft rear garden you will be able to have a patio/sun trap in the sun, just have to be down the bottom of the garden instead of near the house. However you must look at how the sun reaches the garden, how many other buildings, trees, etc shade it. Check it at different times of the day. If there is a sunny spot down the garden right now it will be better in the summer when the sun is higher. Our garden is NNE facing and much shorter than yours, it's not a problem, you just have to choose the right plants for a bit of shade, or rather, lack of direct sun. Some of the plants I grow would not like it any other way. -- Regards Bob Hobden W.of London. UK |
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g'day deebs,
just as a casual observer and one who looks at aspects when buying homes, for us down under the northern around to eastern aspects are ideal as they give us good sun (providing no obstacles like taller buildings or trees), but without winter sun the vege's don't grow. but if you aren't into vege's then as another poster said choose your plants wisely. having said that then for you up there the southern to eastern aspects would be the ideal, not only for the garden but for the home as well to get that suns warmth into the home over winter. so if those 2 aspects you mention are the only options then i'd suggest the north east aspect sounds the better. On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 05:00:19 -0500, deebs wrote: snipped -- len With peace and brightest of blessings, "Be Content With What You Have And May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In A World That You May Not Understand." http://www.lensgarden.com.au/ |
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On 8 Mar, 17:58, gardenlen wrote:
g'day deebs, just as a casual observer and one who looks at aspects when buying homes, for us down under the northern around to eastern aspects are ideal as they give us good sun (providing no obstacles like taller buildings or trees), but without winter sun the vege's don't grow. but if you aren't into vege's then as another poster said choose your plants wisely. having said that then for you up there the southern to eastern aspects would be the ideal, not only for the garden but for the home as well to get that suns warmth into the home over winter. so if those 2 aspects you mention are the only options then i'd suggest the north east aspect sounds the better. On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 05:00:19 -0500, wrote: snipped -- len With peace and brightest of blessings, "Be Content With What You Have And May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In A World That You May Not Understand." http://www.lensgarden.com.au/ Have you thought to check the soil in both Gardens, often houses on an end can have the soil more compacted and the builders just spread a few inches of topsoil over the site. David Hill |
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Thanks everyone.
I think we will take the NE facing garden. There are no tall obstructions anywhere so we should be ok. I think we will deck the end of the garden and have our table/chairs/bbq area there. Thanks again for your comments. |
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Sacha wrote:
Careful with decking, if I may butt in - it gets mossy and slippery in the rain and heaven knows we get enough of that. Weeds and grass can grow up through it unless concrete is laid first and - shudder - rats and mice love picking up any food dropped through it or from it. Personally, I'd consider flagstones with little pockets of earth left between them for planting low growing things. But all that is very much a matter of personal taste. Decking isn't always the answer to a sitting area, though. I got outvoted with our summer house front, where what you are suggesting would have been nice, but He wanted decking. So we got decking. Tbh, it's not that bad. It cleans off nicely with a power hose, and we've not had any moss growing on it. It did have to get weedkillered at one point cos the weed blanket under it wasn't doing its job. But now it seems to be fine. (In fact, if /only/ the grass would grow! The garden looks worse than Wembley!) And yes, we did have rats living under it for a while. :-( But that's more to do with the chickens nearby rather than food scraps under the decking, I think. (Although I could be wrong) |
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On 08/03/2010 17:23, Bob Hobden wrote:
"deebs" wrote We are buying a new-build on a development. There are two houses up for grabs with 60 foot gardens. One of the houses has a North facing garden and the other has a North-East facing garden. Which would you choose? PS we are in South London. Whichever you choose with a 60ft rear garden you will be able to have a patio/sun trap in the sun, just have to be down the bottom of the garden instead of near the house. However you must look at how the sun reaches the garden, how many other buildings, trees, etc shade it. Check it at different times of the day. If there is a sunny spot down the garden right now it will be better in the summer when the sun is higher. Our garden is NNE facing and much shorter than yours, it's not a problem, you just have to choose the right plants for a bit of shade, or rather, lack of direct sun. Some of the plants I grow would not like it any other way. In a similar situation we find that a trough of alpine saxifrages (apiculata etc)does very well near our back windows - with practically no direct sunlight. They burn up anywhere else. OTOH the greenhouse needs to be halfway down the garden. Paul -- CTC Right to Ride Rep. for Richmond upon Thames |
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We have young children so decking is definitely the bast option for us.
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It's perfect for us as the kids bounce off it! Both children have split their heads on conctret/tiles and had to have their heads glued back together so def. a no no for us I'm afraid. |
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