It is a challenge, especially when gardeners have to work in extreme weather, full of sunlight and high temperatures. The best way to ensure your garden is lush and thriving is to use plants that not only look good, but are hardy enough to handle the heat as well as probable drought. These plants that love the sun are ideal to use in garden beds, borders and containers to bring color and life to even a hot landscape.
Perennials and Flowering plants
These are the plants that people love due to their bright display of flowers and impressive resistance to extreme heat.
- Lantana (Lantana camara): It is simply a champion of hot weather as it has clusters of bright multi-colored flowers that keep on blooming. Lantana is exceptionally drought tolerant and a source of attraction to butterflies and thus an easy and vibrant plant to garden added.
- Zinnia (Zinnia elegans): Zinnias will give you a never-ending color display. These annuals are simple to grow starting with the seeds and they do vary greatly in shape and size. They grow well in the heat and sun, and have plenty of flowers during the spring season until the first frost.
- Gaillardia (Gaillardia spp.): Also called blanket flower, the plant is a sun lover and is highly cold resistant. It also has daisy-like flowers of gracious hues of red, orange, and yellow and thus creates a colorful touch to the garden besides being highly attractive to pollinators.
- Salvia (Salvia spp.): A number of salvia, or sage, varieties are very heat tolerant. The remarkable flowers of theirs bereft of leaves look spiky in colors blue, purple and red, creating a lot of vertical effects in a garden. They are popular with bees and butterflies and once in place, they need little care.
- Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea): Wildly popular in most sun gardens, the coneflower is a plant known for its daisy-like flowering. They are quite hardy and give a good display of color during the summer seasons.
- Marigold (Tagetes spp.): An old favorite, marigolds are known to have magnificent yellow to orange flowers. They grow well, thrive in sunlight, and are reputed as a means of warding off pests in a garden.
Succulents and Drought-tolerant Plants
There are creatures of water and by that conservation agent these plants bring special textures and shapes to a garden.
- Sedum sedum (Sedum spp.): Sedums go by the common name stonecrop, and they are very hard to kill. These can be of different sizes and shapes, with some of them being groundcovers and others being tall. They are ideal to use in sunny areas and they hardly need to be watered.
- Portulaca (Portulaca grandiflora): The adorable moss rose is a stunningly beautiful low growing annual that has an array of colorful rose-like flowers. The blowed flower that grows In the sun in the day Compose all they in night. Portulaca does well in hot, dry soil meaning that it is ideal either in rock gardens or containers.
- Aloe (Aloe spp.): Lots of aloe species have their sculptural, succulent leaves making them perfect to use in hot gardens. They also can live long without rain because they retain water on their leaves.
Edible Herbs
Many of the herbs and some vegetables can be used in full sun and hot weather conditions and lend both aroma and taste to your outdoors.
- Rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus): This savory, swoony herb is an overachiever in the heat. It is at its best in full sun and well-drained soil and so is perfect in a sun-loving border or hedge.
- Lavender (Lavandula spp.): Lavender will bless your garden with gorgeous purple blossoms and its relaxing aroma is great in hot dry climes. It also likes drying and well drained soil with some sand.
- Hot Peppers (Capsicum annuum): Hot peppers are more appreciative of the heat as opposed to the other vegetables. The warmer weather the plants are the more prolific are they likely to be.
- Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus): This is a favorite in most hot climates and this vegetable needs full sun and warm soil to grow and produce beautiful flowers as well as abundant pods throughout the summer months.
With the selection of the plants on this list, you can definitely hope that you will have a beautiful and strong garden that will not only survive but rather live in full sun and hot weather. Have you given thought to the kind of garden you want to set up, a flower bed, a container garden or a combination of both?
