| where i live there are many brick walls and in one area there is a long garden running along the brick wall, was wondering what i could plant that can deal with full sun and the heat that reflects off the brick |
| There are only a few plants tolerant of extreme heat. Some are annuals; some are perennials: Achillea spp. - Yarrow Anacyclus depressus - Mt. Atlas Daisy Anaphalis margaritacea - Pearly Everlasting Anthemis spp. - Golden Marguerite Arabis - Rock Cress Armeria maritima - Sea Pink Artemesia spp. - Wormwood Asclepias tuberosa - Butterfly Weed Aurinia saxatilis - Basket-of-Gold Catanche - Cupid's Dart. Centaurea spp. - Cornflower Centranthus ruber - Jupiter's Beard Cerastium tomentosa - Snow-in-Summer Ceratostigma plumbaginoides - Plumbago Chrysanthemum coccineum - Painted Daisy Chrysanthemum pacificum - Gold and Silver Chrysanthemum parthenium - Feverfew Chrysanthemum x superbum - Shasta Daisy Coreopsis verticillata - Threadleaf Coreopsis Corydalis lutea - Yellow Corydalis Dianthus spp. - Pinks, Carnation Echinacea purpurea - Purple Cone Flower Echinops - Globe Thistle Erigeron - Fleabane Eryngium - Sea Holly Euphorbia - Cushion Spurge Gaillardia spp. - Blanket Flower Guara lindheimeri - White Guara Gypsophila spp. - Baby's Breath Helianthemum - Sun Rose Heliopsis - Sunflower Heliopsis Hemerocallis - Daylily Iris germanica - German Bearded Iris Kniphofia vuaria - Red Hot Poker Lamium spp. - Dead Nettle Lavandula angustifolia - English Lavender Lewisia - Bitterroot Liatris spicata - Gay Feather Limonium latifolium - Statice Linum - Flax Malva - Mallow Nepeta - Catmint Oenothera (some) - Evening Primrose, Sundrops Penstemon - Bearded Tongue Perovskia spp. - Russian Sage Phlox subulata - Moss Pink Potentilla - Cinquefoil ) Pulsatilla - Pasque Flower Rudbeckia - Coneflower, Black-eyed Susan ) Salvia - Sage Santolina - Lavender Cotton Saponaria ocymoides - Rock Soapwort Scabiosa - Pincushion Flower Sedum spp. - Stonecrop Sempervivum - Hens-and-Chicks Silene - Campion Stachys byzantina - Lamb's Ear Thermopsis - False Lupine Tradescantia - Spiderwort Verbena - Vervain Hope this list helps! |
