Sun
Full-sun plants

This list is every plant tagged full sun in the library — typically six or more hours of direct light. A bright hallway or a heat-reflecting courtyard wall is not the same recording.
Sun is one catalog fact. Open a profile for zone, water, and mature size before you treat two full-sun plants as interchangeable.
What this tag means on a plant
- Full sun here is the catalog light tag, not a lighting design method.
- Scan the grid, then open a profile — heat, drought, and size still decide the plant.
- Partial-sun plants sit on their own list.
Pest-smart partners in Full-sun plants
Where a plant in this collection already lists companion partners (often for softer pest pressure), those links are gathered here — open either profile for the full reason.
- Silver Maple Dill (Anethum graveolens) Umbellifer flowers support parasitic wasps linked to scale biocontrol.
- Silver Maple Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) Fits moist edges Silver Maple often occupies; supports pollinators and keeps the wet zone planted rather than bare…
- Silver Maple Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) Another moisture-edge partner for rain-garden contexts.
- Hidcote Lavender Lavender Cotton (Santolina chamaecyparissus) Shares Hidcote’s dry-sun preference.
- Hidcote Lavender Blue Fescue (Festuca glauca) Low, non-competitive grassy companion for gravel edges.
- Hidcote Lavender Red Valerian (Centranthus ruber) Dry-sun partner that extends colour after lavender’s peak and feeds pollinators.
Plants for Full-sun plants (8845)
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