My garden in the heatwave

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.

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.

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.

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

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,

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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.