There are tons of flowers who love alot of sun and need little care. Do a search on flowers for full sun and you'll get lots of hits. Many sites have pictures too so you will be able to see what else you might like.

Thanks for the input! It's greatly appreciated.
I'll check out the flowers you recommened.
I'll report on my progress as I go.

I'm excited to start, but I want a game plan first, thanks for getting my started!

Immediately came to mind: Perennials Sedum, Campanula, Potentilla, Rudbekia, Coreopsis. All have many varieties of varying height, width and color and will love the spot.

Mart

Hello :-)

I have a west facing bed that is shaded until around 11am and has sun until maybe 3 or 4pm. I have posted before asking the same question, so if you do a search you may come up with some old posts.

I keep experimenting. I have tried sedums and they flop open in that little sun. I am trying them again this year, but planning on pinching them back to see if that works. Campanula did fine for me. I have never tried potentilla and rudbeckia. I am growing baptisia there now, but it is not flowering as much as I think it should. Daylilies did ok but not as much bloom as a full sun location.

What seems to be happy there for me right now are:
phlox subulata, coreopsis moonbeam, hens and chicks, boxwood, violas, alchemilla, and cranesbill. Cranesbill love it there and the phlox surprised me that it does great.

I have moved out of that bed:
perovskia-spindly growth, grasses-just didn't perform and peonies-didn't flower. Wish I could remember more. I know I have tried a LOT more than that.

I have tried delphiniums and they seemed to do fine there.I am planning on adding them again. This year, I am trying daffodils, hyacinths, veronica crater lake blue, nepeta walker's low and anthemis susannah mitchell. I will let you know how it goes.

Someone suggested Tree Peonies for this location.

If I remember any more I will come back and post again.

Good luck. :-)

You might want to consider putting in a trellis or two and growing vines for height. One annual I've grown and liked is scarlet runner beans; I could eat the young beans, dry the mature beans, and the humming birds loved the flowers.

I also like clematis, and they seem to do well in half day to full sun. Being next to the foundation and a walkway should keep their roots cool enough, especially if you mulch the bed as a whole (just not right at the base of the clematis vines since you don't want the stems rotting.) I have one friend who grows her clematis up netting that matches the approximate color of the building.

I like to have early bulbs by my front door where I'll see them and know that spring is on its way. Right now I have reticulated irises blooming, snow crocuses, and early daffodils.

Having interesting and varied folliage is helpful as well, some large and some small leaves, some round and some tall and slender, and some greener, some grayer or even some of the reds or variegated. Since most perennials don't bloom all summer you want to have something interesting even when you don't have lots of flowers.

I have a western facing garden that has daylilies, lamb's ears, perennial batchelor's buttons, some groundcover dianthus, and a couple of kinds of sedums and perennial geraniums that all do well in the conditions you describe.

I am just putting in some garden beds on the west facing wall of my house. This area starts getting sun aroun 11 and then it is full on pretty much until sunset. My plan is for red, orange and yellow annuals. This will include orange and yellow cosmos, california poppies, coreopsis tinctura and nasturtiums. All of these I will direct sow (from experience I know they do well when ds's). I am also going to move a yellow yarrow and helenium. These are very robust perennials which are almost thugish where they are now. They can fight it out with the annuals. I have a yellow rose (David Austin Graham Thomas) comming and may put it in here.