What flowers grow well in full sun planters?
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. Summer flowers burst to life with radiant sunflowers, fiery zinnias, glowing marigolds, and bold coneflowers. Vibrant petunias, dazzling lantanas, and striking dahlias paint gardens with brilliance, while salvias attract bees and butterflies.More notable sun-loving annuals: Alyssum, Aster, Bidens, Cleome, Cosmos, Dahlia, Gazania, Heliotrope, Latana, Lisianthus, Salvia, Snapdragon, Stock, and Thunbergia.
What is the most hardy annual flower?
Alyssum, bachelor’s buttons, calendula, cleome, delphinium, foxgloves, larkspur, lisianthus, pansies, and rudbeckia—these gorgeous flowers are all easy-to-grow, hardy annuals that thrive in the colder temperatures in spring and fall. Plant wallflowers, forget-me-not, Bellis, Primula, Viola (including winter pansies) and other spring bedding plants in prepared ground or pots. In mild areas, it is still possible to sow hardy annuals outside, to overwinter for a display next year. Continue to plant spring-flowering bulbs.
What is the longest flowering summer flower?
Geranium. Probably one of the longest flowering garden plants, hardy geraniums start flowering around May, and continue to October, depending on the variety. One of the longest flowering varieties is Geranium ‘Johnson’s blue’ (illustrated) which is also attractive to bees. Moonbeam’ Tickseed. With blooms that form in early summer and last all the way until the end of fall, ‘Moonbeam’ is the definition of a long blooming perennial.