15 No-Fuss Garden Plans Filled with Plants That Thrive in Full Sun

You won't have to worry about dragging the hose around to water this garden during the summer. It's filled with heat- and drought-tolerant plants such as sedum, feather reed grass, and euphorbia that can withstand extended dry spells. This layered design works well as a foundation planting or in front of a fence.

Keep your yard looking fantastic even through heat waves with this high-impact, low-care garden plan. It features a variety of summer-blooming favorites such as salvias, irises, and zinnias. Fill a corner of your yard with this design for a big display of brightly colored flowers and foliage.

Turn the space between the street and your sidewalk into an oasis of color with fuss-free native perennials and ornamental grasses. Plants such as purple coneflower, baptisia, goldenrod, and aster will boost your yard's curb appeal with hardly any effort on your part.

Russian sage, lavender, and catmint are sure bets for an easy-care garden. These tough plants mix with perennials to produce beautiful bursts of pink, yellow, and purple all summer long. The variety of heights makes this garden perfect for flower beds against fences.

Some plants shut down in hot weather. But the varieties in this design continue to shine in the baking sun, so you can enjoy a brilliant patchwork of color no matter what the weather's like. Dahlias and lilies are the backbone of this garden, offering bold blooms—they're perfect for cutting!—throughout the summer.

Banish front-yard blahs by installing this corner-fence garden of fast-growing flowers. Packed with sun-loving selections, the design features a mix of colorful annuals punctuated with just a few perennials. Cheery black-eyed Susan complements easy-care cosmos, penstemon, butterfly bush, and more in this long-blooming garden plan.

Enjoy loads of beautiful color all season long with this simple garden plan. It features no-fuss favorites such as coreopsis and purple coneflowers. This garden will thrive and bloom through even the warmest summer weather.

Even as the mercury climbs, this ultra-easy garden plan will shine all summer long. This design includes a variety of flowering perennials that don't need much care from you. Just find a sunny spot that needs some cheery color and start digging.

Annual gardens are a fun way to add brilliant color that lasts from spring to frost. In this design, a blue morning glory on a trellis or similar plant support structure in the center of the bed serves as a focal point. The rich color of its blooms are complemented and contrasted by the surrounding annual flowers.

Nonstop color is what this garden plan is all about, thanks to the drought-tolerant perennials in it. You'll enjoy their palette of pink, purple, yellow, and white flowers from spring to fall because when one variety finishes flowering, another takes its place.

Gardening in clay soil can be challenging because this type of earth drains poorly after a rain, then dries to a concrete-like surface. But this garden plan for clay soil will make it possible for you to enjoy a colorful, thriving garden, all the same.

Sun-loving, summer-blooming perennials keep the color coming on strong all the way through the end of the growing season in this no-fuss garden plan. Their seed heads also add some winter interest, while providing a source of food for birds that don't fly away to warmer climates.

Specially designed for beginning or time-constrained gardeners, this easy garden plan features some of the best low-care perennials you can grow. These reliable plants will come back every year and don't require a whole lot of care other than an occasional deadheading.

End your growing season with a bang with this simple garden plan. It features colorful mums, asters, and other easy-care fall favorites that start heating up as the weather cools off. Along with the beautiful flowers adding color to the landscape, this design also relies on foliage like the silvery gray of lamb's ears and the cool hues of blue fescue to brighten up the autumn scene.

Solve a tough-to-mow slope with this easy-care garden plan. It combines colorful annuals and perennials into a gorgeous display that will bloom from spring to fall.