It says that “in the future delicate flowers including roses and poppies will have to be swapped for plants such as salvias and dahlias”.
In my garden, I spent Saturday and Sunday morning watering everything (except the lawn) to within an inch of its life and put some compost around the base of the roses to help retain moisture, and so far all seems ok. The flowers on my oakleaf hydrangea did go brown and crispy, and there were some dried out leaves on a couple of small pink anemones, but overall the garden looks much the same as before the heatwave.
Here’s a photo of my ‘delicate’ Roald Dahl from yesterday, which was flowering in a pot in full sun as it was too heavy for me to move it to a shadier spot:
I've had a better look around the garden now. I reckon, after a good long shower of rain, most plants would emerge alive but battle-scarred. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we're getting any rain here😞
Well it sounds like most gardens did ok given the extraordinary weather. we had rain here in glos yesterday which certainly perked things up, notably the pots. That’s a shame LG re your crinodendron. I planted one earlier this year, it’s not doing much yet but seems to have survived this spell .. i inherited a row of hydrangea paniculata that seem to have got through this ok, not that they are particularly impressive. I did think that the weather might have finished them off ... anyway back to the rain dancing 😉
We had enough rain overnight to wet the garage roof, but not under any plant. I think one patch of Euphorbia griffithi has had it , its all crispy. Most everything else survived, but then I seem to have done nothing but water for three days, I started on Sunday. I moved all the pots of rosoeas into the shade of a tree. A lot of other pots were standing in trays of water.
Quite a lot of flowers have gone over faster than normal, but I think most of the plants are going to be OK. It's usually dry here in summer so I (mostly) choose plants to suit and avoid anything that needs constant moisture unless it's going in a container on the drip system. Lawns (grass, not bowling-green smooth) are going brown but they'll recover in the autumn. I'm thinking about turning one section into a gravel garden but the thought of getting tons of gravel delivered onto the drive (which is the only place it could be unloaded) and then having to shift it to the right place in a hurry for OH's car access is putting me off.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
The only things that have suffered are a scorched heuchera and some of my ferns. I know the heuchera will bounce back, I don't know that this year's growth on the ferns can be salvaged, hopefully they're not beyond recovery for next year 🤞
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It's always worth keeping a shrivelled fern well watered for a while. They often recover.
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/NVNH5FN
I came across the survey in this article:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/21/traditional-british-garden-under-threat-from-extreme-heat-says-rhs
It says that “in the future delicate flowers including roses and poppies will have to be swapped for plants such as salvias and dahlias”.
In my garden, I spent Saturday and Sunday morning watering everything (except the lawn) to within an inch of its life and put some compost around the base of the roses to help retain moisture, and so far all seems ok. The flowers on my oakleaf hydrangea did go brown and crispy, and there were some dried out leaves on a couple of small pink anemones, but overall the garden looks much the same as before the heatwave.
Here’s a photo of my ‘delicate’ Roald Dahl from yesterday, which was flowering in a pot in full sun as it was too heavy for me to move it to a shadier spot:
we had rain here in glos yesterday which certainly perked things up, notably the pots.
That’s a shame LG re your crinodendron. I planted one earlier this year, it’s not doing much yet but seems to have survived this spell ..
i inherited a row of hydrangea paniculata that seem to have got through this ok, not that they are particularly impressive. I did think that the weather might have finished them off ...
anyway back to the rain dancing 😉