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I am looking for flowers that I can plant in the spring that will stand the heat in the summer.?

I live in a condo and in the summer the sun just bakes in the front. The bak of the condo gets the most of the heat because of the black top. I just wanted to plant some nice flowers in a hanging flower basket on the back porch but it gets so hot. What flowers will take the heat?

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1. Any succulent, make sure you give plenty of water, baskets evaporate very quickly
2. It's tough to answer if we don't know where you are. But you can try zinnias, geraniums, or bougainvilla.
3. If the basket is in the shade, then impatients can do well. Either regular or the New Guinea variety. If you have a lot of sun then try vincas. They can take the sun quite well. There are even some varieties that trail.
4. cannas. they require full sun and at least the mid 80s to bloom. it can survive to 120 as long as you water it 2wice a day. they come in hundreds of verieties. here they all are http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/b/Cannaceae/Canna/none/cultivar/0/ here is one called tropicanna which is a frequent bloomer with nice colored leaves http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/18031/
5. roses and bougainvillea