Brighten your landscape with these heat-loving blooms

Choosing plants that bloom all summer, even when temperatures soar, can help keep your garden looking lively and colourful throughout the warm season. If you stay in an area where the summer heat can reach scorching levels, it is essential to add flowers that will tolerate the heat.

Here are four heat-loving plants with a long bloom season

Having heat-resistant plants in your garden can provide several benefits, including lower maintenance, less frequent watering, fewer pests and diseases, and improved resilience to extreme growing conditions. These are the few flowers you can opt for:

Catmint

Catmints are these fragrant herbs with small, purple flowers all along the herb’s sprawling stems. It defies heat and blooms from spring to summer. To enjoy the herb’s scent, plant your catmints where you can enjoy the scent, around the patio or the edge of your garden. Another hidden benefit to growing catmint is how cats are attracted to the scents and aromas of the plant.

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Coneflowers

These perennials will produce colourful daisy-like flowers from spring to summer. Coneflowers grow well in lean soil and extreme heat. Some coneflower species develop a long taproot, with hairy leaves and stems that help reduce water evaporation. These flowers come in different colours, such as red, orange, and yellow, which all work well in pollinator gardens.

Crossandra flowers

Also known as firecracker flowers, these flowers love heat and will produce bright orange stacked flowers all summer. Their glossy green leaves shine next to their overlapping flower petals. These flowers thrive pretty well in heat and humidity, but will not tolerate shady environments. When grown in cooler regions, the ideal option is to bring the plant inside and provide adequate light.

Butterfly weed

The flowers are resilient to heat and humidity, blooming intermittently throughout the summer with bright orange clusters. They are drought-tolerant, making them suitable for pollinator gardens or as perennial borders in your landscape. Monarch butterflies love butterfly weeds due to their nectar-rich flowers. To grow butterfly weed, it’s easy to start from seeds in early spring. For the best chance of success, plant the seeds in a full-sun location with well-drained soil, and enjoy watching them thrive and bloom in your garden.