My yard is full sun as well. Even the small entirely shade garden is so wilted because of the sheer heat radiating.

Things that still look healthy would be the Crape Myrtle, Weigelia, 'Walker's Low' Catmint, Perennial Hibiscus (not blooming now but foliage looks healthy), 'Ryan's Pink' Mums, Butterfly Bush, Lambs Ear, Lantana & some varieties of tall Salvia. Many of my other fall mum varieties have foliage that looks pretty dried up and crispy but they're finally beginning to bloom so you don't notice.

Squirrellypete

Hardy begonia, salvias, rudbeckias that don't get too much afternoon sun.
agapanthus 'peter pan is reblooming, aling with a little red clematis I cut way back in July and has made its way back up the trellis. Japanese anemone is very pretty now. Sedum (atutumn joy) is pretty indestructible and ready to bloom. But I'm ready to quit maintenance for the year.

I am most disappointed in my ginger lillies. I moved them from too much shade and floppiness more than a year ago, and this year too much afternoon sun and drought make them look like the sad corn I saw in some fields on my way to the beach last week. I have yet to find the right spot, but I love the smell and the white blooms. Some of my elephant ears look singed and tattered, and are among the plants that did not appreciate not getting watered last week. But looking at the weather elsewhere in the country, I can't complain too much.

My white ginger has a bloom forming on it. Cant wait till it blooms it is located right by the back door when you walk out to the carport to sit. Going to move it closer so it will get a little bit more shade because it tends to look bad from the hottest part of the day. Perinial sunflower has not formed any buds or the angel trumpet both look good just no blooms. Oh Rosey the balloon flower is blooming just got to figure out how to stake it where the blooms are off the ground.
Jill

Yep - crepe myrtles, lantana, rosemary, agapanthus, and hibiscus syriacus, along with juniper, osmanthus, nandina, fatsia, cotoneaster, elaeagus, pyracantha, holly, mahonia, blue fescue, rudbeckia, asclepias, echinacea, tithonia and callirhoe. And not surprisingly, my agaves have T-H-R-I-V-E-D in this hell.

Fortunately my house faces due east so I get afternoon shade in my front yard.

Pretty much everything is doing ok except my elephant ears and hosta. They are droopy and looking fried. I have crepe myrtles, hydrangea, gardenia, azaleas, juniper, a japanese maple (I keep it well watered), creeping jenny, ajuga chocolate chip, blue fescue, the list goes on and on...

The plants that are loving this weather are the two drought tolerant plants I have - mexican sage and sweet broom are doing WONDERFULLY. They are HUGE! Also my lambs ears, sun loving begonias and French lavender are doing pretty good.

My crepe myrtles look good - gardenias still doing well of course, lantana, Rosemary, etc. My shade beds are doing well, have soakers in them - and my gingers are doing great, started blooming over the weekend. The stuff getting direct sunlight looks like HELL, even with the soakers - b/c i have quit running them like i was - something to do with a $250.00 water bill last month....yep, i fell over too!

Jill - my balloon flowers fall over too - i am gonna get them staked...eventually - lately it is too hot to get out there and do ANYTHING!

Just a suggestion. To "stake" plants like the balloon flower that like to lay over, I use the peony frame stakes. They're the ones with the oval wire at the top and then usually 3 legs to push into the ground. There are different sizes of this type.
Lynn

Everything still looks good in my yard.

I had a $400 water bill last month.

I'm fortunate enough to have an artesian well so my water is free.( Sorry Carol : ( I haven't been able to keep up with my daylilies this yr and many have gone dormant waiting for some moisture. Hedychium gingers are glorious, also the crinum mentioned in another thread and my bananas are going well...bananas!! I have two plants with fruit that have bent in half, next yr I will know to splint the pseudostems to keep this from happening. I'm seriously doubting that the fruit will be ready by winter so I'll be checking out the banana forum to see what to do.

Crape Myrtles, purple, lavender and Near East Pink are beuatiful. I had to cut back the Miss Huff lantana because it was taking over the backyard and covering the greenhouse. Charles Grimaldi yellow brug and Ecuador Pink brug are in full bloom. Musello lasiocarpa banana has been bloming since last September and now a new bloom has taken the place of the first. Rudbeckia is brilliant yellow. Alocasias, xans and colcasias still look good. I put xan marginata in shade and the white doesn't melt as quickly as before. Altheas, bananas Kimberly ferns and Canary Island palms look good. Waiting on the gingers. We've had a good rain almost every week for 3 weeks.

I've been particularly pleased with my Coral Bean, Erythrina x bidwillii...dozens of bloom spikes on a seven-foot bush through the summer and still going strong. Also one pot of Hibiscus coccineus is still blooming. And another bright red bloomer new to me this year is a vine, Manettia inflata, the Firecracker vine. Have it growing in a pot next to a larger container of the variegated Salix 'Hakuro Nishiki', the stems of which carry the delicate vine easily. It's been blooming for over a month now.

And one annual: the ornamental hot pepper "Explosive Embers" has green, red, and purple fruit! josh

As much as I fight to eradicate it during the summer, some of my sweet autumn clematis survives, and at this time of year I am so glad because it is now blooming and adds light and fragrance where it nestles and climbs and meanders.

It's very sad. The only plants that seem to be doing well here (we have water restrictions strictly enforced) are the bananas, brugmansias, daturas, hot peppers, rudbeckias and strangely enough, a giant gourd plant that is taking over the entire vegetable garden.

Most everything else is just about dead including a large camellia that I just got this year. The bananas are crazy though - for some reason mine grew the tallest they've ever been this year. I never water them. My neighbors are wondering how this is being done although I haven't done a thing - no fertilizer, no water - nothing!