Hi!
I decided to actually do an audit and see how much sun each zone I have is getting. The answer: a LOT less than I thought! Although I do expect that to change as summer gets here. My issue is that I have a lot of walls and trees, so I am running into a situation where a zone may be in sunlight, except for the foot or so right at the base of the wall, which is in hard shade from the wall shadow. Or a zone will be in sunlight, and then dappled shade as the tree shadow sweeps over it, and then back to sun. So how do I count for that in the amount of sunlight? I.e., do two hours of half shade/half sun count as 1 hour of sun? Or is it only the full hours that count? I also plan on repeating this in June, September, and December, because I know that the sun angle has a huge impact on the amount of light getting into places in my yard.
Thanks!