Are we going to face problems?

The soil in my little Kentish garden is very sandy, easy to dig (even easy to weed) but water-logged? Never. I dig in home-made compost, I practically have the local riding schools and stud farms queuing up to give me their well rotted manure heaps but, somehow, it's still not quite enough. It may have rained for weeks on end, but when I put some plants in on Sunday, (having watered it well the evening before) 3" down and it was bone dry. So bad is it that I've even been known to add water retaining crystals to some of my smaller beds!

 

Musa basjoo totally fried when I got home from work yesterday.
And my Phyllostachys nigra looking very stressed too.

 

Hope they'll recover Sirius....
The Japanese Fern i bought that i'd wittered for for ages was still in it's pot looking seriously ill is now sat in a bucket of water....that'll teach me for not getting it in the ground sooner

 

I hope so too.
They are in my new raised bed, and I would rather they used the energy to grow, not replaced damaged leaves!

 

I have an invasion of blackfly on dahlias, salvias, Camellias etc.etc. They breed,with the encouragement of their friends the ants, at such an alarming rate, you daren't even go off to the PC to moan about 'em on GC.
Whilst I posted this, another 1000 were probably created

 

Loli we know you can witter on for ages
Well my beds and containers are looking great now after this spell of hot dry weather, its done everything a world of good here . No problems to report from the costa del Leeds and Liverpool canal !