"Here are a few suggestions for gardening plants in those dry hot spots."

Gardening plants surviving in those nasty hot

Gardening advise for the Kawartha Lakes region
Ton Van Nieuwkerk


spots does make gardening here in the Kawarthas a challenge. We all have those hot spots in our gardens where we hardly can get any water to, or the sun is beating on that same spot the whole day and it is difficult to keep it wet.

You may have a spot like that in your cottage garden and you are not able to water it daily.

Here is a list based on hardiness zone 4 of plant material for that hot spot in your Kawartha garden.

All plant names are in Latin/Greek.

Achillea 'Lachschonheit'

Achillea millefolium

Achillea 'Moonshine'

Achilea 'Taygetea'

Achillea ptarmica

Achillea 'Schwellenberg'

Achillea tomentosa

Eryngium alpinum

Euphorbia marginata

Sedum ewersii

Sedum 'Morchen'

Sedum telephium

Sempervivum tectorum

Yucca filamentosa

If you would like to plant some annuals in between the perennials mentioned above you can consider the following varieties.

Cosmos bipinnatus

Erigeron div. varieties

Gazania 'Flore Pleno'

Gazania 'Gwens’s Pink'

Gazania Sunshine Hybrids

Pelargonium all varieties and hybrids

Portulaca grandiflora

Verbena X hybrida garden varieties

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