The joys(?) of a south facing garden

Our front living room faces south and has 8 windows
Luckily the four front windows are shaded by an upstairs balcony, and the whole front lawn by a large tulip tree. The living room is thus lovely and cool.

My garden is south facing also. The beauty of this is that my living room is north facing and always cool in summer.

Our garden is also south facing and enormous, by mid afternoon our shady space is a tiny square under the kitchen extension window.
But our bedroom and sitting room are lovely and cool.

My south facing garden has no shade for most of the day, so I am grateful for the awning outside the french windows, which also keeps the living room cool.

Oh we’re struggling with our south west facing garden even at this time the sun is shining in, just hitting me sat on the sofa.
We have perfect fit blackout blinds at the patio door and window they’ve been shut all afternoon but it’s still boiling hot.
I think next year we’ll need to invest in an awning.

I've always liked having a south facing garden but now find it too bright and hot and have to hide in the shade!

Our back garden is south facing but the lounge and our bedroom are North facing - best of both worlds.

I deliberately bought an east/west house. My last house was eco and s facing and even with verandahs it was so hot. At least here I start to get shade early afternoon and can sit out. The garden is mostly south facing but I have a shady end by the house

My neighbour is south facing with through rooms downstairs. No-where to escape the intense sun

kittylester

Our back garden is south facing but the lounge and our bedroom are North facing - best of both worlds.

We're the same.

We have a south facing garden it's wide, rather than long. Two things attracted me to the house when I first saw it, the width of the kitchen and their doors that cantilever out on to the patio with a view over the garden and the trees that are behind our back fence and the wonderful screening they provide. Athough come Autumn their leaves are all over the lawn I love feeling ensconced in greenery, as I did today, spending most of the afternoon in the garden with a book. Glorious weather.

Indeed, the weather has been glorious. I have a south facing garden at the top of a hill leading up from the beach. It has very sandy soil so I need to be careful what I plant. In the past I collected seeds from wild maritime plants and have filled my garden with plants like tree mallow, thrift, agrimony, cornflower, corn marigold, Red campion, Viper's Bugloss etc. Anything that will grow in sandy soil and the bees and wildlife love it. With the tree mallow the bees love the flowers, the starlings eat the seeds and then use the bark to make their nests and strip the wood bare - wonderful. It can get very hot so a few palm trees provide just that little bit of shade when needed. Water is obtained from collected rain water in water butts to make sure the plants don't go thirsty. Bit of a sea mist this morning but I think it will burn off.

Do not get me wrong, I love my house and the garden. It was just yesterday with the sun and heat at its height. I couldn't see it until evening because of the need to draw curtains and blinds to keep the over-bright sunshine and heat out of the house.

Our house has a South-facing garden. The good thing is that the living room (at the front of the house) stays nice and cool.

My front garden is south facing with 2 vehicles parked on the drive. I have 2 deep flower beds one on either side with very tall shrubs planted. Yet if you touch the vehicles you burn yourself and it's impossible to ever work out there when the sun is out as you feel ill within minutes. I'm grateful for the sun but the only great thing about facing due south is my solar panels on the roof and being able to run my air/ con free of charge. My house is a funny shape so although my back garden faces north it's never shady even though I've planted a multitude of trees. I too love my house and gardens but after living here for nearly thirty years I've learnt it's foibles and live accordingly.

I love my South facing garden.

On the rare hot day the garden table parasol keeps the sun off of sitting room window, no need to close curtains. We do (rarely) draw the curtains over the french doors at

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My south west facing garden is blooming well, roses honeysuckle, salvias, all the rain set it up, and a quick water on odd days, my patio door shutters help to keep out the glare and keep kitchen fairly cool,living North East Coast always a breeze going. Living room faces North so always cool,
Loving the weather.

A dd has a S facing garden and an extension with bifolds (very often wide open) on the kitchen. But the former owners had planted a small ornamental tree on what is now the patio, which does a great job of keeping too much sun off the kitchen.

We wouldn't purchase a property unless it was south on the back.
We live in an area of bungalows with no one overlooking our back garden. Retired couples like ourselves each side, total tranquility.
When it is a lovely morning I quite often go out and have my first cup of tea of the day relaxing and looking at my lovely garden.

Celebrate! Come winter and you will be glad of facing South.

I have a lovely south/west garden and enjoy the sun in it most of the day. I count myself lucky to have a garden and sounds like many of you have beautiful gardens. Reading this thread though I felt for those who don’t have a garden and I am sure there are many out there.

mae13

Celebrate! Come winter and you will be glad of facing South.

No, not really.

I only notice hte alighment of the house in summer hot weather when I have to protect the house from overheating from all the sun pouring in.

We have a SW facing house and have a huge awning at the back which keeps the house cool and a couple of trees for shade. Plants against the house do well but those in the shade of the back fence not so well.

GrannyIvy, I thought the same about those less fortunate without a garden or outside space. Our garden is SW facing, with many trees, some in our garden but also in the woods beyond the back fence. I’m outside at every opportunity.