My garden in the heatwave

Gin I must plant one to scramble over my fence near the house. Can you tell me the name of your one please. Easy to grow? Do you cut them back?

My jasmine is just. Smothered in blossom. I am sitting by the open French window at almost nine pm and the smell is so strong it is filling the whole house.

My beans are not doing at all well French and runner, flower wise the Shasta daises are giving a magnificent show as is the white escalonia. However petunias and sweet peas are struggling. I water them well but they are just getting burned up. All my effort!

Luckygirl is your jasmine the one which scrambles over fences and smells wonderful especially at night?

I planted a window box with 3 small round lavenders in a row which look rather nice. They were Munstead I thijk which may stay chubby more than spindly. I will plant them up in bigger pots on in the ground in the autumn and then buy 3 more next spring.
I will make a list of suggested plants above and keep to them next year.
I have tubs of geranium, hardy fuschias, heuchera, sedum, lavender, rosemary, roses, hydrangeas.well watered and in the shade... dianthus. And they are all doing fine. Two more hydrangeas are in the ground and in full sun. The sun is bleaching the colour from their petals and burning the leaves. They get a good water each night. Hopefully they will survive.
Fuschia does well in the heat.

Dianthus are all doing well, and I have several jasmines that are flowering brilliantly. Honeysuckle is not happy and has produced lots of dried up blooms in spite of lots of watering from me.

The problem is the wet winters as well. Several of my plants didn’t survive as I suspect the roots were drowned. Plants are very expensive now so we really need ones that will survive the wet and the heat.

I’m not keen on marigolds in pots but geraniums and begonias thrive well in heat. I still water the pots once a day late evening.

Allsorts

Marigolds, Californian Poppies, Geranium, Roses all doing well as well as my established shrubs. However my grass is struggling, I have a man cut it every fortnight trouble is its scalped and weak after last years weather. I think it should be left this week, there's only a few good patches that are greening up but nervous in case he won’t come back,

Just ask him to lift the blades on his mower so its not scalped. I'm going to lift the blades when i cut mine this week.

Marigolds, Californian Poppies, Geranium, Roses all doing well as well as my established shrubs. However my grass is struggling, I have a man cut it every fortnight trouble is its scalped and weak after last years weather. I think it should be left this week, there's only a few good patches that are greening up but nervous in case he won’t come back,

Busy lizzies are fine, as are a few violas still flowering from winter.

You would assume that bougainvillea would be happy with the heat we’ve had, wouldn’t you 🤷‍♀️ I had to move the pot to a shadier spot.

My salvias usually do well in the summer. This year they're all burnt.

In my troughs, daisies of various sorts are doing ok. If lavender wasn't so spindly I'd plant that in window boxes.

I agree, some of the blooms have just dried on the plants!
It’s worth making a note of the ones that survive the best. I’m finding that Sweet William, dianthus (SW family) and Armeria are doing well. Eryingum are about to bloom, but anything with delicate petals is just not coping. My Sweet Peas are quite sparse with short stems.