What has survived in your garden with minimal or no watering?

A Russian Vine, it's death defying.

Heucheras are surviving well also roses. Myrtle is alright and fuchsias. Also osteospermums. I live in East Sussex and garden on chalky soil. Pelagoniums are very happy and cranesbill survive with a little watering. Star jasmine OK also buddlea
and passionflowers. Weeds are a nuisance and it’s too hot to get at them 😁. Gladioli not a problem.

My Japanese anemones are all wilted to the point of collapse, but I’m not bothered - was planning to dig the invasive buggers up in the autumn anyway.
I do wish they could have flowered first, though!

My garden just looks so very sad. No rain at all for many weeks and I have only watered maybe a handful of times as have had no energy whatsover due to lack of sleep in the heat. Large shrubs mostly OK except for those that flower as they flowered and then died within around a week. A really large flowering perennial (daisy like flowers) just sort of fell over and flopped likewise a couple of large crocosmia clumps which I have now cut back to within a couple of inches from the ground. Most colourful plants with the exception of achillea have just frazzled. Yesterday I cut back lots of stuff which I would normally not be doing until around Sept/Oct so goodness knows what that will do to the plants next year. Have spent so much time and money on the garden, like so many others and now it's verging on eyesore.

Fortunate in Durham not to have a hosepipe ban so our plants are blooming with the exception of the front lawn which is looking parched. And for the first time ever our hydrangea in the front garden has never had as many blooms…it must have taken heed of our threats to dig it out and replace it if it didn’t flower this year.

In the back garden the black berry brambles are growing wildly and full of berries some already ripened. Up by the house it,s next doors brambles growing over the fence and over hanging the path so having to cut it back to get to the main part of the garden.In the main part of the garden brambles are in my garden,also the wisteria is rampant the grass is brown. In the front garden everything is lush and green other than the plants that have already seeded, the shrubs which were cut down as growing out of hand still keep getting shoots growing from the stumps so having to cut them back.

Fennel - it thrives on neglect and full sun. It’s about 5’ tall, strong, self supporting stems, with ferny foliage and coronets of seed heads, beautiful in silhouette, swaying gracefully in the breeze …..,and I can eat it!

Weeds weeds & even more weeds! Shrubs doing ok, small trees not so good! Do not have a ‘pretty’ garden so no problems there! Have strange brown stuff where my grass used to be😂

My roses are fine, but are 10 years old, the hostas are fine, and all the woody shrubs are fine. I’m watering the salvias, and they are still struggling a little. A (new last year) Himalayan Honeysuckle is struggling, but I keep throwing the washing up water on it, and it perks up very quickly. My hydrangeas have been fantastic this year, and only need minimal watering. I have heavy clay soil.

Our soil is quite dry, I do mulch but there are so many trees around & it's so free-draining.
So a lot of things in the OP are not OK without water here.
Japenese anemones, lavender, geraniums & marguirites & crocosmia are all dying here. I have watered the lavender a fair bit because I think once it goes, it won't come back next year.
Also my acers need water, even some that have been in 10 years, & the camellias.

My penstemons are doing better than expected though...

Asters, more in the shade are doing well. As are Echinacea Fuchsia's, Sedum, Crocosmia, Lavender. Helenium managing to survive.
The most beautiful plant in my garden is Salvia Hot Lips. It's grown so big and and kept in flower.
Potentilla shrub flowers and buds keep drying up. Geum dried up and all the rest of my plants are looking weary.
Six tomato plants are not looking very well at all. There's a few tomatoes but not many. Cucumber plants in the same condition.
Grass like straw.
There's been no rain here in Northants for weeks now and none forecast for next week either. Should be cooler for the end of next week thank goodness.

The xyz Japanese anenome that has done hundreds of £ of damage to our house. Since we moved in last year, I have sprayed it, dug up bucketsful of the huge roots that criss cross the garden about 6 inches down, but still it rises!

Almost everything I have is in pots as I only have one small planting area, containing just a rose and lavender. For the first time ever my lavender is dying, perhaps old age as much as lack of water and probably better replaced.
In my pots the salvias, roses and trained pear trees have done well despite little watering. I use large pots for everything and only water once or twice a week, apart from my tomatoes which are regularly tended with loving care!
I'm trying "Coral Crush" tomatoes this year and have some really lovely big fruits growing, three of which should be ready to pick tomorrow.

Weeds and Bill and Ben.

Weeds <LOL>

My peonies which should be dying back by now are vigorously green, as are the sweet peas and the winter jasmine and the broom. Rambling roses are not flowering, but are still producing a lot of new shoots (I have watered other roses)

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My passion flower has gone mad, there’s a double door shed under there somewhere, it’s started creeping up the lawn , not watered at all , must be 5 weeks at least since it rained

The weeds are thriving

You all sound like proper gardeners to me.
I am not at all proper in that department but my clematis in the front of the bungalow has bloomed beautifully. People going by tell me how beautiful it is. The rest of the garden not so much.
I waited for ages to plant the seeds I was given after my best friend's funeral. She loved her garden and often gave me cuttings and the reassurance that I couldn't fail. Ha ha.

I put all the seeds in one large pot and the little darlings are starting to sprout. I have had to move them to higher ground as my little dog is far too interested in them.

I think I should split them up before they get too big and try to plant them in my front garden. It's like a rock at the moment but I am willing, if not terribly physically able, to do the preparations.

Terry would have laughed about all of this. I miss her so much. Friends for 58 years.

My grass is dead and the weeds are thriving in my garden. They are mostly nettles and other prickly ones and I can’t use weed killer until after it rains.

We have a walnut tree that always has lots of potential but the nuts never get to ripen fully. Looking good so far. Perhaps this heat will ripen them.

Strangely, three hibiscus have just flowered

Lavender is dead. Evening Primrose doing well.

Oooooh I adore Japanese Anemone! I loath Alstomeria though 😁

Geraniums