By Sprog
NP26, Monmouthshire,
United Kingdom 
Advice needed please. Can anyone recommend bedding annuals for a VERY hot and sunny front border? My Begonias in half-shade are four times the size of the ones in full sun and those in full sun are also getting scorched. They don't seem to like that open sunny position at all.
I am in Monmouthshire, near Chepstow.
Thank you everyone.
27 Jul, 2013
Answers
Mesembryanthemums are very pretty and reliable in hot sunny places.
27 Jul, 2013
Thank you both. Those two types will definitely be going in for next Spring.
27 Jul, 2013
Are you feeling optimistic, then?
27 Jul, 2013
what about gazanias? We used to have them in a very hot south facing border and they did well, they originate in South Africa [like marigolds.]pelargoniums of course do well .
27 Jul, 2013
Zinnia and any of the marigols, English calendula as well as the French/African ones which are the tagetes types.
27 Jul, 2013
This is going to be a VERY colourful border, Sprog. Make sure you take lots of photographs next year when it's blooming well, and post them for us all to see.
27 Jul, 2013
Brilliant suggestions and thanks to everyone who took the time to reply. I will be following the good advice.
28 Jul, 2013
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The toughest plants I know for sun are the zonal geraniums, and their kin. However, the weather's about to change, so I don't doubt you'll be looking at pond plants next!
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