Planning a garden is no small feat. Before you even touch the soil, there’s the fun (and sometimes daunting) task of mapping out your garden’s layout and figuring out where those sunny spots are. A full-sun spot, for example, basks in six to eight glorious hours of direct sunlight daily, which is a dream for certain flowers and veggies!
Once you’ve determined where they are, you can plant these sun-loving plants in a spot that would allow for them to thrive. These are the flowers you should include in your sunny spots.
Flowers that thrive in direct sunlight
Having a solid base of sun-loving flowering perennials keeps you from having to start over every season and gives you and your garden a palette to work with. There are plenty of sun-loving flowering perennials with striking flowers that, once established, can be largely hands-off. Reliable direct sunlight-loving flowers are great for attracting pollinators, which will help keep your garden vibrant and wildlife-friendly.
1. Daylily flowers
Big and gorgeous daylily blooms will appear early to midsummer if given the right amount of sunlight. These flowers multiply quickly, meaning you can divide in a few years and gain more plants. When in full bloom, they bloom in beautiful colours, mostly bright orange. So enjoy an abundance of colourful lilies in your garden.
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2. Coneflower
These bright daisy-like blooms come in a profusion of colours and sizes. They flower from early to midsummer for weeks with their traditional purple flowers, but these days they come in varieties of many other colours. Their fragrant flowers can be used fresh or dried for echinacea tea.
3. Columbine
Columbines love and thrive in sunlight. These graceful, elegant flowers bloom for weeks in late spring to early summer. Although they typically last only a few years, they however often drop seeds which start new little plants. Columbine will produce more blooms with some needing deadheading.
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4. Lavender
In warmer conditions, lavender thrives in hot, sunny, and even dry conditions as but as perennial. They will reward you with a gorgeous aroma and usable herb leaves. When growing lavenders, pick a spot and don’t move it around as the woody classic is cranky about being moved once established.
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A version of this article was first published in Garden&Home Magazine.
