Outdoor plants resistant to the sun and cold: find out what they are!
Outdoor plants resistant to sun and cold are not only beautiful: they give your balconies lots of greenery and beautiful flowers without too much effort! Plants are important because they brighten the external and internal areas of your home and in addition purify the air giving well-being to your rooms. Watch the video we have selected for you and discover the most suitable plants to purify the different rooms of your home!
Hardy balcony and garden plants
There are many outdoor plants for balconies or gardens that are resistant to cold and sun. The choice of plants for your garden or terrace must be attentive to their characteristics, to obtain a good result. For example, the Viburnum thinus, a very pleasant evergreen from an aesthetic point of view, resists the cold very well. In winter and spring it has beautiful white and pink flowers. Even Echinacea, rich in colorful flowers, does not require much care as well as the Weigelia florida native to China, evergreen, with purple flowers and dark red leaves. Also beautiful are the Petunias, which come from South America, with pink and blue flowers, which however fear wind and abundant rain. Also original is the Catalpa, native to North America, known as the "Cigar Tree. Decorative and useful for keeping mosquitoes away." Aucuba japonica is very beautiful aesthetically, but it needs to be watered regularly. Particularly decorative is also the Lirioper muscari with long leaves and purple flowers, to be better protected from strong sunlight. A plant with beautiful flowers that requires little care is also the Astilbe, with plumed flowers and leaves similar to ferns. It blooms in any climate and is used to the cold, coming from Northern Europe and North America. The Mahonia is really particular, an evergreen with very original flowers in the shape of purple olives.
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Plants resistant to climatic variations
Plant care today is increasingly difficult due to major climate changes. Summers are dry, very long and very hot. From November to March significant drops in temperature and a lot of humidity. Every day between work and other commitments, the time to devote to plants is less and less and therefore you too are pushed to choose plants that do not need too much maintenance. In short, you want them beautiful almost all year round, but without too much effort and commitment on your part. Perovskia atriplicifolia is very strong, suitable for lawn edges and hedges. It flowers from June to November and is more resistant to both cold and dry heat than sage, which it resembles for its purple colors and silvery leaves. Trachelospermum jasmonoides also has good resistance to cold and heat. It is also suitable on the balcony in deep pots, can cover pergolas or arches and gives beautiful fragrant flowers in abundance. Then there is the Carex, a very common plant especially in swampy and wooded areas with streams, it is green-yellow or bronze-copper, resistant to any climate and free of parasites. Even the Abelia is not afraid of frost and tolerates drought well with its warm-toned leaves and fragrant bell-shaped flowers, as well as the Achillea millefolium, which gives color to the gardens. Thyme grows rapidly, is also useful as a cooking flavoring and is very suitable for gardens. The rose is always the rose, the most beautiful: there are the roses of the past robust and fascinating, the wrinkled ones splendid even in the cold period with their lively berries. The Aster, very suitable for gardens, blooms when the other plants are resting and is not afraid of either heat or cold. And so the Anemone which produces many flowers of beautiful and various colors but prefers semi-shade in the summer months.
The plants most resistant to low temperatures
If it is cold enough, our plants must be protected, greenhouses are used in the gardens, and special roofing on the terraces. However, there are some plants that have a great resistance to cold compared to others, do not deteriorate in winter and are also very beautiful aesthetically, such as the splendid Lewisia cotyledon, which develops well in rock gardens and does not suffer from low temperatures. Simple, but perfect, the Vinca minor (or Pervinca) also grows autonomously, in the undergrowth or along the roads; it does not fear winter and produces splendid pink and blue flowers from May to September. Lavandula (or Lavender) resists even the harshest winters; it is suitable for forming beautiful hedges and blooms abundantly especially if it is in full sun. Pachysandra terminalis, on the other hand, has a more moderate flowering, but with exuberant leaves; it is excellent as lavender to make hedges, has small beige flowers and dark green leaves. Hellebore is a plant suitable for those who have little time to dedicate to it; it has beautiful white and purple flowers, but you have to be careful because unfortunately it is poisonous to living beings. Loves the frost and blooms in winter, this plant called Christmas Rose, very appreciable aesthetically. These plants resist well to the cold months and will allow you to have a rich and vigorous garden even in the winter season.
Scents and colors even in winter on your balconies
There are beautiful pot plants that are resistant to the rigors of winter and that can make your balconies or terrace beautiful with a thousand many shades of color and delicate scents even at low temperatures. For example, cyclamen, violets and heather among the flowering plants. The cyclamen is a flowering plant for outdoor use also suitable for the winter balcony with flowers of bright colors from red to pink. Even the pansy, the romantic pansé (Viola tricolor hortensis), is resistant and if placed well in the sun, it will brighten your balconies with its bright colors for all the cold months and without too much effort on your part. The heather is also a vase and does not fear the cold. It has beautiful white or dark red flowers. Some types of heather have red, yellow and orange leaves. To fortify the plants so that they are thriving even in winter, you must use a specific fertilizer for potted, green and flowering plants, which gives them the nutrients and natural substances they need or anti-thermal stress fertilizers, which enhance their natural defenses.
Since you want plants that require little care and last in summer and winter, you can opt for Sedum, which is not afraid of temperature changes. These are crassules (succulents), also suitable for a balcony in the city: if you love hanging ones, there is the sedum acrid with yellow flowers; the Sedum anglicum is smaller with white and pink flowers while the spectabile has pink flowers and can reach 60 centimeters. But the ones that get by very well with the cold both in the garden and on the balcony are the Jovibarba Sobolifera and the Semperiverum, outdoor crassules with small fleshy roses and pointed leaves.
The beautiful plants that love the sun
One of these is certainly the Sunflower, which feeds on the sun, without the light it cannot live. Plumbago also loves heat and even its flowers, the so-called blue jasmines, tolerate it magnificently. Verbena loves sun exposure, but without exaggerating; its colorful flowers remain on the terrace from June throughout the autumn. Margherita is simple to grow. Its romantic and tender flowers tolerate the heat of the sun very well for hours and hours. However, it should be watered with lots of water, especially in the summer months. And then the exotic plants: Dipladenia, which doesn't like the cold at all with its strange white, red and pink funnel flowers because it comes from tropical America. Gazania also needs the warmth of the sun because it comes from southern Africa or the Asian hibiscus which loves the heat because its brightly colored flowers fear the harshness of winter, as well as Petunia, native to South America and Surfinia Japanese who claims full sun by right.
