Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Help Concrete Backyard Tropicals (Sac, Cal Z9), 0 by Maggienile

Maggienile wrote:
Howdy to all you Dave's Garden Members. I love this website since I am a novice and everyone is so kind. My husband and I bought a house which has concrete instead of a yard. THis picture was taken before we bought the house. I am including this pic to demonstrate how much of the yard is concrete.
We are trying to put in a tropical garden and for now our plants include: 1 plumeria, lilies, Calla Lilies, Alocasia, Cannas, 2 passionvines, Dutchman's pipe, 2 bougainvillas, an underachieving gardenia, phlox and a brugmansia.

I would like to know if some of you have any of your plants or a majority of yourr plants on hardscape. If so, what have you planted and how do you deal with so much radiant heat?

I just started a water garden which might help a bit. We also put up a gazebo which helps with the heat. I PROMISE more pics later.