Sunny spots can host a wide array of plants. With the right mix of sun-loving perennials, you can savor seasonal color from summer to fall frost. Treat yourself to a yard full of color. Designing a garden is easy when you are able to work with full sun perennials.
When choosing plants for areas with full sun, it’s generally better to stick with native plantings whenever possible. Many full sun plants are also tolerant of drought and arid conditions, making them ideal for potted environments too.
Buying new perennials in a drought and planting them in the garden makes little sense, as they need milder temperatures to become established first. So, you should wait until the heat wave is over, or your new purchases will die right before your eyes. Buy plants in the fall or spring that are hardy and have plenty of time to grow strong by summer next year.
Winter-hardy succulents like sedum, stonecrop, and houseleek are optimal for dry, sunny gardens. Houseleek is even called "sempervivum," meaning "always lives," in Latin. Succulents have the special advantage that it's almost ridiculously easy to grow from cuttings. This way you have three times as many plants in two to three years without spending a penny extra.
Woody Mediterranean perennials and herbs such as lavender, rosemary, thyme, sage, and oregano are also excellent and very bee-friendly. In dry gardens, all kinds of iris, yarrow, and purple coneflowers feel at home. They tolerate dry soils well and have beautiful colorful flowers. The sunniest flower of all, sunflowers, need 6 - 8 hours of full sun.
Happy Gardening
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