Plants and Flowers

[Billy n NC]

Hello fellow Jude2'ers..

My wife loves working in yard with flowers. She even won a neighborhood award in the past. With the drought that we are currently in her flowers have suffered. In the photo below you can see some azalee bushes under the front window. They are dead . The front of the house faces south and gets the most son and my wife is wondering what to put in there place. She has some azalees that are blooming now on the side of the house (less sonshine) but does not want to move them .

Suggestions on some plants/flowers that bloom spring to fall that likes a lot of sonshine.

This photo was taken in Spring of 2005.

[Darling]

What a beautiful yard. Your wife did a great job.

[Billy n NC]

What a beautiful yard. Your wife did a great job.

Thanks will pass along to her..


but with over 50 plus views no suggestions for plants that flower in direct sunlight????

[Susie Hamilton]

http://michiganbulb.com/search.asp?t=pf ... 7&x=14&y=5

Here is a link to michigan bulb for your zone and lots of sunshine.

[RuSKY]

Billy, the yard and flowers are beautiful.

Although, they are not perinnials. Vinca, aka Periwinkle make a beautiful flowering plant and they thrive in hot sun with little water. NO insect bother them that I know of.

Another sun loving plant is a Mandivillia vine.
They come in bright pink, white, red and yellow. They have a large trumphet/petal bloom . You have to take them inside in winter to keep them for the next year. I grow mine in pots but you can put them in the ground.
Both plants will bloom all summer to frost once they start.
I bet your wife is already familiar with these.

RuSKY

[Aboutthere]

Red Salvia would be beautiful there and they will bloom till frost & they like Sunshine.