What are the best potted plants for full sun in Florida?
Full-sun plants include canna, crown-of-thorns, desert rose, daylilies, pentas, iris, plumbago, crinum, plumeria, bougainvillea, periwinkle/vinca, marigolds, datura, roses, brugmansia, hibiscus. When you’re looking for full sun flowers for pots, consider summer snapdragons, lantana, mandevilla vines and portulaca. This planter of full sun flowers includes ‘Akila Lavender Shades’ osteospermums (also known as African or Cape Daisies), ‘Cool Wave Frost’ spreading pansies and ‘Clear Crystal’ white alyssum.
What flowers like the afternoon sun?
Sun loving coleus and bronze leafed wax begonias may work. Just keep the soil moist. Purple Heart (Setcreasea purpurea), pentas, and four o’clocks are other annuals to consider. For perennials try dwarf Mexican petunia (Ruellia), lilyturf, daylilies, and speedwell (Veronica). There are even herbaceous perennials that will look great in containers in autumn and winter – either from their foliage or their autumnal flowers. Go for the following: Heuchera, Hylotelephium (sedums), Japanese anemones, Liriope muscari, Persicaria (red bistort) and Symphyotrichum (asters, Michaelmas daisies).Examples are tickseed (Coreopsis), bee balm (Monarda), sneezeweed (Helenium), perennial sunflowers (Helianthus) or tall phloxes (Phlox paniculata, Phlox maculata, etc. Most of them are long lived, hardy and proven perennials. You can choose from pure native wildflowers and their nativars.Some drought tolerant annuals and perennials include: aloe, blue daze, bush daisy, coontie, cardboard plant, lantana, rosemary, passionvine, shore juniper, butterfly milkweed, coreopsis, black eyed susan, purple coneflower, beach dune sunflower, blanketflower, portulaca, salvia, lavender, gaura, gazania, spider lily, .
What plants like a lot of direct sunlight?
Sun-loving plants such as cacti, succulents and certain tropical plants thrive in direct sunlight. The plants which are the sun loving or the sun favouring plants are known as heliophytes.