Three days before the 'Big Heat'

You take it easy Julia, have a good long cool drink.
At 9pm it was 27C in the house and the greenhouse and the general garden. Even hubby's workshop was 26C and that is always much cooler than the rest of the garden buildings.

I watered the veg and any pot that had a wilting plant in it. Our water company is sending strong messages out about saving water. they are trying to avoid a hosepipe ban.

Lovely photographs Julia.... I took a slow walk around tonight watering, took me ages but I actually felt good doing it, I did use the hosepipe as not up to carting watering cans, although I made sure its still allowed first, I was shocked at the state of the garden, it looked as though autumn had arrived, not really been seeing it for a week, poor hubby had done his best for me, not his fault by any means, I'll sort it when I'm back on par, might have to do the Chelsea Chop on some but it will bounce back, its actually amazing really that anything looked good with the heat we are experiencing.....

It still looks good to me, Meadow. I think the only exercise I am having at the moment is watering plants. Lots of small bits to keep going. I did cut back a huge geranium last evening, now have to work out where to put it as all the compost heaps are full to overflowing.

It feels as though I've gone backwards this morning but thats probably the heat as much as anything, it saps ones energy under normal circumstances, apart from energy levels I would class myself as better now but still testing positive, I'm not going anywhere Julia so that doesn't really matter..

Your garden looks lovely, I hope it has not suffered too much since you took the photos. Perhaps the plants will all bounce back when we get rain. We may have them all blooming beautifully in September ( wishful thinking).

It looks as lovely as it usually does, but if your garden is like mine you can see the suffering when you get up close. We had a tiny bit of rain this afternoon and ane istand lightening flash and one quiet roll of thunder but it came to nothing. The local weather forecast says it should rain at eleven p.m It has

It looks as attractive as ever to me. I'd forgotten how hard watering is - must have got much weaker since the least time we had a run of dry weather... We had a distant lightening flash and a slight attempt at a roll of thunder but all the excitement came to nothing.

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Julia, all three of our water butts are now empty, so I shall have to fill the watering cans from the hosepipe now. I have put a big garden trug, you know the heavy duty plastic ones with handles, outside the kitchen door and throw the dish water into it. 'Grey water' is better than none! No rain forecast ... :o(

Thundery rain showers due here tomorrow ....

Julia, sorry I missed your blog! My parents have been here since last weekend, going home tomorrow.
I do hope you've been doing ok! It was so hot and quite unbearable wasn't it!
Our temp finally normalised today! 21 degrees. Hooray!

Good to hear you're doing ok! It's a task required to keep our garden and wildlife safe and healthy, but, still, it's good to hear you're doing ok!
Mum and Dad left this morning, we've had a lovely week!
I'm over to Hornsea tomorrow evening for a music and dance show!

Thank you, Julia. You are very kind x

Just found this blog Julia!
I think your garden is just perfect and only you can see the problems!
I have managed to water with the hose in one hand and my stick in the other.
I have two hoses one in both sides of the garden , so only have to switch the tap on. But my alstromerias finished before I could dead head them!
Very disapointed about that! I daren't bend down to cut them back incase I fell!
Hopefully they will come back for a late show!