I'm watering everything, but a lot is getting only "survival" watering. There aren't enough hours in the day or enough dollars in my pocket to give everything as much water as is recommended.

Here's what looks suprisingly good considering the minimal water it gets:

hosta
shasta daisies Becky
oriental lilies - Stargazer and others
hydrangea Tardiva

We moved here after the last prolonged drought so when I planned the gardens I put in mostly drought tolerant plants.
Things that are happiest are:
Santolina
Salvia (gregii)
Scuttelaria (scullcap)
Roses
Shasta daisies
Lavender (spanish)
Verbascum
Verbena
soloman's seal
Sedums all going wild
Mulhy grass
Hostas
Hesperaloe (red yucca)
Daylilies

I have watered once with soaker hoses about 2 weeks ago, and will again if it doesn't rain this Sat.

We actually got a bit of rain this evening.

I have a lot of roses,and they are ok, with watering. I also have many that are newly planted this year, so I have to water them.

Does anyone elses shasta daisies look a bit molded, like they have powdery mildew? Mine look just awful (the leaves anyway).

'Annabelle' hydrangea is loaded with blooms and hasn't needed extra watering. I have two of these, both were rooted cuttings from a friend in 2003 and now they are huge! Now I have gotten into the habit of rooting a few cuttings to give away.

Clethra alnifolia (can't remember which cultivar, either 'Hummingbird' or 'Sixteen Candles') - two of these in full sun and they are covered with flower buds. They should be a butterfly magnet when the buds open in a month or so.

Asclepias tuberosa is doing well this year, such bright orange flowers!

Annual vinca is the usual great performer, blooming it's heart out in the full sun.

There are some things that are NOT doing so well, of course either due to the cold snap (small flowers on oakleaf hydrangea in some cases) or the lack of rain (hyssop seems hardly able to stop drooping this year, perhaps voles are nibbling on the roots too).

My established roses are doing very well:

Also:
Salvias
daylilies in raised beds
Evening primrose
Catmints
Artemesias
Butterfly Bushes (once they finally recovered from the freeze)
Tardiva Hydrangeas
Cranesbill (Hardy Geranium)
Hardy Hibiscus
Asiatic Lilies
Heucheras
Yarrows

Here's a shot of the Catmints in the foreground, then the rose and the white yarrow in the back ground

Squirrellypete

I could never get my cat mint to any decent size.

Most of my stuff in the shade is doing well without extra watering. But I have full sun in most of my yard and things are suffering. I just ordered wilt-pruf to spray on the leaves of plants. It is supposed to keep them from losing moisture in the heat. It would also have helped with frost damage.

I do love that I have less weeds. I only seem to have weeds where I water.

But the lawn is starting to get crispy.....

Danielle,

What sort of rose is that? it is so pretty. My catmint is doing great too. I think it was last spring that you gave me a small start.

Everything looks okay for me except for my roses which are all being eaten by Japanese Beetles. My Crepe Myrtles are still not showing any sign of buds and I guess that is due to the late freeze but I wonder if the drought is contributing to that?

Kathy. I wish I could tell you its name -- I bought it 2 or 3 years ago at Growers Outlet right after the first Spring Trade my mom & I went to at Glynis'. This was one of those standard little 6" pot mini-roses. It's kind of hard to call this a mini-rose now when it's easily 3-4 feet in diameter & about 3 feet high. The other two I bought at the same time (different colors) are planted in other locations and are only about a foot in diameter so it's either a difference in varieties or the red one is just in a great location. It does get more water than the others because it's in a bed under the eave of the house and anytime we do get rain this bed gets soaked from roof runoff though that hasn't happened in a while. Normally the Japanese beatles hit when this thing is in full bloom and cover it, paying little attention to anything else in my garden. It always made the bush look less than stellar, but this year they're only just now starting to show up now that the bush is almost finished with the first flush. Maybe the freeze delayed the beatles in our area a little. Without this rose to attract them now I wonder what they'll turn their attention to next?

That flush of blooms in the pic is actually almost gone -- that was taken a week or so ago and I need to dead-head now. I did root some babies of it so assuming I can keep them alive through this summer I can give you one at the next trade.

Buford -- the weeds seem worse than ever here for some reason. I probably should add those onto the "what still looks good" list lol.

Squirrellypete

I just realized that based on my spelling you'd think a mop-top British invasion band was eating my rose lol. It's definitely "Beetles" and not "Beatles" that are invading my garden.

Squirrellypete

Almost everything in my yard seems to be doing well right now. With over 200 species of plants I won't bother to name them though. Just glad the watering Fairies have been kind to me.

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You think this new little area will qualify as a new landscape? I transfered about a dozen Cast Iron Plants and a flat of Torrenia on top of this wall made from left over trash rocks.
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I water from my pool and fill my pool at night on my watering days. Most of my neighbors that do water, water whenever they feel like it but, overall I would say our street uses very little water as most folks here don't bother to water usually. They are all pretty adept at growing weeds and privet and now that they don't even have to mow they are all in hog heaven.

I love the crunch of a nice Fescue.