Bitter Melon & Okra. My Tomatoes squash, cucumber, zucchini & Egg plants are doing great

I would have less plants in pots..........way less.
Mike

Ditto what Mike said. AND I would have made room for some sweet corn seeds in my veggie garden!.

I'm seeing a lot of long established rhododendrons and compact winged euonymus that look like they might not make it through the summer. Already the annual Brown Lawns Festival is in full swing. Usually more or less regular showers continue through the first week of July.

yea most of my rhododendrons might not make it. I have had them for a few years already,

I would have moved to Sacramento where it has been cooler.

Now we're getting smoke from BC, which has cooled things down a bit.

I would have planted some more heat tolerant flowers than pansies and violets.

This drought finally caused me to cover a small lawn with woodchips today. The upper part was bone dry and brown. The lower part was riddled with mole hills and collapsed tunnels. It was becoming a hazard to walk on and I was tired of fixing it.
Mike

Being a gardening neophyte, some of my mistakes may actually turn out well. I grew both onion and tomatoes from seed. The onions are bulbing nicely (apparently I should have started them in the fall?) and the tomatoes are 2'-3' tall and blooming. We shall see...

My azaleas, on the other hand... I finally had to put in irrigation for them and I've still lost about half of them. I've been having to water a fuscia that got moved last year, and my husbands been watering his lawn. And most of the flowers I grew from seed are dead dead dead...

If it's not a specifically drought adapted plant - and a well established specimen, on a retentive soil - it needs to be watered during the summer in the climate here. Due to the weeks without rain, early in the season this year there are lots of droopy rhododendrons, parched winged euonymus and fading Viburnum davidii around that look like they might not make it until fall.

But maybe the recent wetness will bring a lot of them back from the brink. Funny how the climate often sorts of evens itself out - we had a stretch of drought at a somewhat odd time and now we are getting fairly substantial looking dump during what is usually the driest time of the year.

It remains to be seen however just how much is going to come down before the hot weather returns in a few days. It can rain for what seems a long time and add up to only a fraction of an inch.

If you don't want to water much you might want to look at lists and articles where the focus is on drought resistance, choose your plants based on those.