What plants can handle 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).While most drop seeds and come back you asked for perennials. Shasta daisy, coneflower, phlox, catch fly, sedum, rudbeckia, dianthus, roses. I plant 2 Mandavilla’s and let them run on my chain link fence. They get full sun and are beautiful from spring until frost.