Hardy Iceplant
Society garlic (both regular & variegated)
Santa Barbara Daisy (I got this from Goodness Grows)
Spanish Lavender (the shorter/dwarf types)

GGG

Certain annuals go most of the summer: melampodium [truly nonstop and don't have to be deadheaded], zinnias, marigolds, salvia fariceanea, common red salvia (I don't like this but my hummingbird watching friend swears by it), nasturtiums, and gomphrena, the little purple pom pom flowers.

Rose

Wax begonias (the kind you can get in a 6-pack at the nursery) bloom all summer & don't need to be dead-headed.

I'm curious about these new 'sunpatiens' for exactly those conditions.

I have been looking for the sunpatiens but have only seen them in magazines.

I don't think anyone mentioned Homestead Verbena

Oxalis has bright pink flowers that bloom longer than anything I can think of.

I saw sunpatiens at Home Depot last week. I don't know if this is the same thing but there's another type of sun impatiens, I think called New Guinea impatiens? I love when they have reddish foliage and lipstick orange and coral blooms - they're beautiful.

Rose

I think I have decided on hyssop. They made the UGA gold medal list a couple of years ago, and some of them don't get much taller than 18 inches. Has anyone grown hyssop? Does it really bloom from June to October? Will I need to add granite dust to the planting bed to give them enough drainage? Does anyone know where to get it locally? So far the closest place I have found is a nursery in Virginia.

I can give you some hyssop, but what I have is not a cultivar, so it generally gets about 24 inches. Mine is the purple one; I have heard the white one is very special.

I just plant it in regular dirt, nothing special. Get a few seedlings a year; took two to the GNPS sale and I see a couple more have popped up since then.

I love vincas and zinnias for non-stop color, especially the narrow leaf zinnias.

I winter sowed melampodium and I have high hopes for it. I hope it looks as good as I've heard it does.

I winter sowed hardy Iceplant but it didn't do well. I don't know what I did wrong.

>>I can give you some hyssop, but what I have is not a cultivar, so it generally gets about 24 inches. Mine is the purple one; I have heard the white one is very specialBoth the white and pink hyssop are weak strains and revert easily back to the blue color. I am delighted though that hyssop will grow in the south (I am not quite there yet).

woody ga melampodium is gorgeuos. I wish I could find some this year. I bought a six pack at the grower's outlet last year for $1 at my daughter's insistence (she is only 5 and seems to have a knack for picking winners) anyway they got so nice and full they were the highlight of a new bed last year, but I din't try and collect any seeds.

nosyrosie, New Guinea impatiens can not take full sun regardless of what some of the tags may say, they can just take more sun than regular impatiens. I am not sure but I believe Sunpatiens are a hybrid of the new Guinea, anyone know for sure?