Name: Susan Virginia (Zone 8a) God is the only thing that matters.
Yes, they love, love, sun. If they can tolerate full sun in zone 9 then you (we) should be fine and dandy.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat.6:28-29