Hey, what's up everyone. Welcome back to the Epic Garden Podcast. Today we're going to be taking a question from my friend Joyce.

So Joyce wrote in a few days ago and here is what she said. She said, hey Kevin, great website, really enjoy.

Thank you so much for that Joyce. I live in a small apartment in Las Vegas.

I'm on the second floor facing northwest. There are a couple inches of sun for a couple months,

May to mid-June, so that truly is a couple months,

is two or three, and it gets up to 110 plus at times for many long hours.

I want to grow anything, especially anything edible,

but I would take ornamental as well.

What could survive the heat without having sun, although it does get very, very

bright? Mid-October, the weather begins to cool, still there's no sun on my balcony.

Now, this is interesting because a lot of the times

we can give recommendations on shade loving plants

or potentially heat loving plants,

but shade and heat loving plants as a combination can be a difficult

one to solve.

Now the fact is a lot of shade loving plants are also moisture loving plants. We're thinking about things like ferns.

Anything in these moist woodland style conditions aren't going to thrive simply

because they like shade in a dry environment.

And we're talking Vegas, we're talking not a lot of light,

and we're talking incredible heat during the part of the year

where Joyce says she is experiencing a little bit of light on that balcony.

So what are some recommendations?

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