PG rated......Crispiness at its best!

There's an upside - no slugs on that gorgeous Dahlia!
Its not quite as bad as that here yet - probably ought to have a good watering before a ban sets in.
Do you remember that long drought in about 1976 or 7? It was amazing how quickly most things recovered when it finally did rain.

I think it was 1976. We were on our honeymoon in Mexico while it was really hot here and we missed it.
I am still watering while I can. I don't know how long the garden can hold out.

It's so depressing, just watching things die! It's impossible to water everything all the time, soak one thing to stave off the death of it and something else is curling up and going flat. Please let there be rain soon

I've just threatened to report a member of our Garden Club to the committee for having TEN MINUTES OF RAIN in her garden this afternoon, while the rest of Bracknell had none :-)

No rain here or any signs of getting any either for another 2 wks according to the weather guru's. What we have in the butts is being kept for the pots of ericaceous plants.
It said on the news tonight that there will be a potato shortage & prices will consequently be higher than usual. I dread to think what ours will be like when we dig them up - marbles probably.

Not a drop for weeks in Norfolk.

It looks like there is no rain coming our way in Glasgow. Considering we normally get so much. Very odd.

Steragram, in 1976 the heath fire adjoining our home made the 9 o'clock news and I lost my aviary of birds. Thatched cottage next door burnt to the ground! So, we are hoping for some rain for the heathland and for our garden. The lawns will recover.

Was in London last weekend and our son took us back to his place via Richmond Park. The grass was yellow!

Never thought I would long for some rainfall!

I hope the temperature goes down a bit soon. It isn't doing our plants any good like this. Most of yours look as if they're coping well though :)

Meadowland: Have lost one or two of the smaller ones but the others are holding their own.

Makes a change not to have rain in Wales, Hywel. All being well we would have been in Aber this weekend in SUNSHINE!

(Did I hear that Surrey had had a minor earthquake?)

Eirlys - more on the Surrey earthquakes at www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-44727326

Eirlys what dreadful experiences you had. It must have been heartbreaking to lose your aviary - and much worse even for the poor folk who lost their whole cottage! Heathland is very vulnerable in this kind of weather. Did you see about the big moorland fires up in Lancashire this week?
Surprisingly our lawns are still green, though not growing or course, but in the next village where the soil is shallower and more sharply drained they have gone very brown. Our soil in places is like concrete with cracks in...

Yuck - hate this hot weather.

Thank you, Andrewr for the information.

Steragram: The Lancs moorland fires are dreadful and to think they suspect arson. Think of the toll on people and on flower and fauna.

Pb123: Agree!

It might not have been deliberate - a glass bottle can start a fire when everything's so dry. One end of those fires is only two or three miles from our son's house
At one time moors round Sheffield were fired deliberately so there would fresh growth afterwards - I think it was on grouse moors and I guess it would be overseen to make sure it didn't get out of control. No guarantees that grouse shooters care too much about the rest of the ecology...

J .. your gardens are looking very attractive... you've designed them with good structure, so they are nice to see in all seasons.

Hi J ... praise is well-deserved for your garden. Yes, do keep on with the great work. x