What’s doing well in your garden despite the heat?

[JurgenKloppsTeeth]

And what kind of soil do you have/whereabouts are you?

Thought it might be interesting to see which plants are surviving (or even thriving) through this hot summer without watering in case anything has died and needs replacing. My garden is parched but the things still doing well are:

Sedums
Penstemons
Scabious
Hydrangea paniculata
Salvias
Mullein
Mexican fleabane

I’m in Cornwall on crappy stony acid soil.

Lavender was doing ok but even thats struggling now

The bastard cat next door that keeps coming and shitting in my dead borders.

Just the nettles!

Agapanthus... also in Cornwall on stony acid soil. My hydrangeas are very sad.

West Midlands.
Clay soil that gets heavy and waterlogged in the rain but dries out immediately in the sun.
And the bastard bindweed is the only thing thriving.

We have been getting heaps of enormous, lush blackberries from the top of our very large, north east facing garden. 😁

Excluding things in pots; most of the planted garden is doing fine - I’m in Somerset on clay soil.
The ones thriving are the drought tolerant plants like rosemary, salvias, nepeta, verbena, Mexican fleabane, irises, thyme, oregano etc. But even the buddleia & roses etc are still fine. I’ve only given the garden a soak maybe 3-4 times since May? Usually if a few plants are wilting (usually the deutzia) I’ll get the hose (no hosepipe ban here yet). That’s not to say the plants aren’t stressed - they are, even the trees but the benefits of clay soil is it holds moisture deep down.

Rosemary
Figs
Bay
Olives
Pumpkin
Corn
Chili

The plants which usually prefer it further south in other words.

Sunflowers and Cucumbers, everything is dead.

I'm in the South East and have a north -facing garden. We use grey water from a butt connected to the shower so there is a steady supply (other 4 rain butts have been empty for weeks). Salvias and mahonia are happy. Everything else is hanging in there. Lost a few new perennials I put in for a bit of colour but they are easy to replace. Most will re-seed or come back in the spring.

The weeds and the buddleia that self seeded. Im only letting that live becsuse the butterflies are loving it.

The weeds

I’ve also had to cut back the wisteria 70 billion times.

Greater London - agapanthus was great but is now flagging. However, the start jasmine still looks amazing.

Salvia, crocosimia and euphorbia. We’re in East Anglia and on clay soil.

The weeds are going like the clappers unfortunately!

Same soil and bindweed here.

Just my rosemary and my wisteria, which is on it’s 4th flowering

My lemon tree is happy as Larry. I only slung it out there for a sink or swim chance because it hated the house.

In the west on old river loam, echinops, black eyed Susan, perennial sunflower, geranium Rozanne, doing well. Roses the flowers don't last before going brown. Japanese ananome really struggling.

Excellent qualoty acid soil.

The oleander is stunning, salvias and viburnum doing well, as is the Daphne. Everything else has coped because I've watered.

Yarrow.

Established plants and trees that have been there for years.

Clay soil on a slope.

Wisteria for me too. It’s absolutely rampant.

The only other thing doing well is a Phygelius which sits in full sun in the front garden and hardly seems to know there is a drought. The rest of the garden is suffering badly, especially the hydrangeas.

Been a great year here for us. Agapanthus, jasmine, lavender, pelargoniums, honeysuckle, salvia, calendula, echinops, nepeta and cosmos all going strong.

Chalky soil

hydrangea only hanging in there with help of buckets of water

my 20yr old rose bushes are happy

lavender, thyme, rosemary good

japanese anemones only with help of bucket of water

am not wondering if watering anything in y the garden is unethical at all, as are in such a bad drought ☹️

anything newly planted this year has died (clematis did not stand a chance)

Myrtle seems to be a surprisingly happy bunny in a pot
Ophelia hydranger doing very well too
Blackberries
Jasmine
Fig

Geraniums. I have them in all of our pots and baskets every year as they are low-maintenance, even in this heat