
All these flowers can bear the tropical heat and thrive in full sun. You can also grow them in containers. Let’s start from beautiful pentas flowers that attract pollinators like bees, hummingbirds, and sunbirds due to the nectar. Pentas is a tough heat tolerant plant that you can grow in containers. This tropical flower can be grown in USDA Zones 9-11 as perennial, below these zones grow it as an annual. Lantana is a common tropical flower that blooms year-round in bright colors like red, yellow, orange, white or pink. It thrives in neglect and heat, it is kind of an afternoon sun plant, the more sun the better. Growing lantana is only possible as an annual plant in mild climates. Check out more flowers below!
Texas Bluebonnets
Petunia
Celosia (Cockscomb)
Ixora
Adenium (Desert Rose)
Cuphea
Canna
Geranium
Angelonia
Marigold
Bottlebrush
Mandevilla
Thunbergia Erecta (King’s Mantle)
Verbena
Calliandra (Powder Puff)
Gaillardia (Blanket Flower)
Portulaca (Moss Rose)
Hibiscus
Moonflower
Plumbago
Lantana
Pentas