{"id":749153,"date":"2026-08-25T10:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749153\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T10:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:46:11","slug":"17-beautiful-and-unusual-drought-tolerant-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749153\/","title":{"rendered":"17 beautiful and unusual drought-tolerant flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Type: perennial<br \/>Height: 30 to 90 centimetres<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Plant Pollen Anther Flower Petal Lupin Grass Vegetation and Daisy\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2253394720.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>From the Great Plains of North America, this incredible perennial can form a 2-metre taproot, allowing it to survive drought. The pink-purple flowerheads look like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseandgarden.co.uk\/topic\/recipe-collection\/mexican-recipes\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mexican<\/a> hats and attract bees in summer.<\/p>\n<p>Type: perennial<br \/>Height: 30 to 90 centimetres<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Flower Plant Petal and Lupin\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1253465016.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A non-native wildflower that has naturalised here, this old dye plant sends up wands of honey-scented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseandgarden.co.uk\/article\/yellow-paint-neutral\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">primrose<\/a> flowers that feed pollinators in summer. Deadhead to prevent its enthusiastic self-seeding!<\/p>\n<p>Type: self-seeding biennial<br \/>Height: 1 to 1.5 metres<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Anther Flower Plant Pollen Daisy Petal and Geranium\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2287920257.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This Mexican campion is great for splashing dots of bright <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseandgarden.co.uk\/gallery\/red-rooms\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">red<\/a> through a border. Starry scarlet flowers on slender grey stems in summer and autumn. Sometimes sold as &#8216;Jack Flash&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Type: perennialHeight: 30 to 90 centimetres From the Great Plains of North America, this incredible perennial can form&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,247518,64904,6738,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-749153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-extraordinary-plant-collections","tag-flowers","tag-gardening","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}