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

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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.

Rosemary
Golden rod(self seeded between flagstones)
Bastard honeysuckle which is intent on strangling everything else. And doesnt flower.
Bay
Blue spiky flower.
Quince. But never fruits.
Welsh poppies

Crocosmia , Erigeron , Californian.poppies , ox eye daisies, catmint, lavender sage rosemary perennial osteospurnums

Have got clay soil here - near Bristol. Our fuchsia is doing well as always - and the bees love it. Love seeing a fuzzy bumblebee butt sticking out! And rosemary and bay are going well. Petunias in pots snd hanging baskets are being quite resilient too.

My hydrangeas, sedum, buddleia, catmint, some of the lavender plug plants, and my (very young) fruit trees are managing. It is naturally clay soil, and the garden was neglected for years before I moved in, to the point that there were no worms. I have since attempted to enrich the soil with manure, compost and the odd bit of topsoil... anything to improve it! I was ridiculously happy to see my very first worm!

All of my other plants have died off.

Clay soil in the South.

The following are doing well on minimal watering:
Salvia - various varieties
Gaura - 'The Bride'
Geum - can't remember the name, but it's red!
Wisteria
Photinia (Red Robin)

Everything else would die if I weren't watering every other day.

The weeds are fine, of course!

My olive trees are thriving and sage, I have loads of sage but the bees etc love it so that's good. No idea of my soil

As per PP, my lavender has died a death

My wisteria is also ok but I am regularly watering it

London clay: mexican fleabane, thyme, salvia, verbena, bay, rock rose, ferns (in shade), chillis

Oh, and lavender

London clay. The Olive tree is happy, rosemary , bay and oregano doing well. Grape vine is thriving. Roses gave up flowering a few weeks ago but are okay. Geraniums are doing well.

In Gloucestershire on some decent loamy soil but with lots of crap in it from when the houses were built, 50 years ago.

Many things are really suffering, my pink hydrangeas have turned completely brown and crispy, I’ve got box blight on my two lovely box bushes for the first time, and the crocosmia has turned completely brown. We don’t water anything other than pots, but that’s the same every year, and this is the worst it’s been.

Things in the ground continuing to do well include a couple of varieties of euonymous, a big pittosporum, smoke bush, holly trees, Japanese holly and shrimp tree. But most of all, the 50 year old North American Trumpet Vine is thriving, despite being planted alongside the house with the foundations right next to it. The hot dryness seems to have invigorated it, and it’s getting moisture from somewhere as it’s razzling strongly across the back of the house, where it loves its south-west facing situation. Expecting a good display of flowers in the autumn - it does its very best in these conditions.

Maybe I’ll just let the weeds take over then 😬

My allotment rosemary is having the time of its life but my garden one is not happy. Weirdly my sage (which I thought would thrive) has partially died off.

Will be interesting to see what survives the predicted very wet winter too. Suspect anything with a deep tap root will do well.

ceanothus, wisteria, salvias

Can't believe how happy our wisteria is this year, best ever.

Agapanthus has had more.flowers than ever.

Sandy south Devon here. Agapanthus are stunning, both in the ground and in pots. Tulbaghia flowering its socks off, as is Verbena bonariensis. Hydrangea paniculata doing well. I'm watering pots thoroughly a couple of times a week and hurling cooled washing up water at things in the border. I lost two cistus and one hydrangea.

Agapanthus
Roses
Nepeta

Are all thriving !

It’s been a struggle to keep my hydrangeas going. I’m fed up of it now

Yorkshire here and the Ecinacea (coneflower) I planted in May is flourishing.
Also, Verbena, Erigeron, Hypericum and Heuchera.

Luckily I decided to save money and only did one hanging basket this year instead of several plus pots.

Roses are doing well and full of flower, dahlias thriving too so the garden is very colourful.

The only things suffering are the hydrangeas and my sambuscus looks dreadful despite watering it, I'm hoping it'll recover.

East Anglia - everything is either struggling - lavender and budlia, or dead. I am very sad.

My stone chippings are doing well, as are some rocks. The shed is also still standing 😂

Plant wise, I'm watering everything. One of my apple trees is wilting badly. My hawthorn is okay.

Geranium

I’m also in Somerset on clay soil. Our garden is fairly new, anything planted in the last year is struggling, older plants are doing better.

I planted a tiny eryngium in the Spring, it’s huge and covered in tiny blue thistle heads, never had much success with them before. The bees are happy!

Sandy soil. Rhubarb has done well, probably as under tree so a bit of shade helping. Echinops and agapanthus plus established roses, sedum and sage are all ok .

Things like Mexican fleabane, crocosmia, and Japanese anenomes looking extremely sad along with many other things.

The bastard bindweed is looking good everywhere!

rosemary going strong here too, I’ve got a couple of dead plants in the front boarder and if they don’t recover I might dig out and replace with rosemary. The front garden does need to be able to survive with a bit of neglect.