Is your garden full of dying plants because of this summer’s extreme heat or drought?
My persicaria looks like a bowl of crisps, the Virginia creeper’s leaves are limp, the veronicastrum is flagging and many leaves have brown tips.
So what can we do? I decided to ask an expert.
I visited the beautiful Grade 2* Listed Borde Hall Gardens in Sussex to talk to their head of horticulture, Harry Baldwin. Borde Hill Gardens has several collections of rare plants, including over 80 ‘champion trees’ and beautiful borders, the latest of which is designed by Chris Beardshaw.

Borde Hill’s beautiful rose garden. The garden is open to the public from February to November, so it has to look good all year round.
Re-think the garden to stop next year’s plants dying
Firstly, Harry suggests you look at what is in your border