You can save your garden plants from the searing heat with this 1 household item that you definitely already own

Garden border and old stone path in summer, with pink salvias and fuchsias and ornamental grasses .

The intense summer heat is here, and whilst some plants like it hot, not all flowers in the garden are sun worshippers, and the relentless sweltering temperatures could be too blistering hot to handle and savage some of our favorite plants.

You may have a few tricks already up your sleeve for protecting plants in a heatwave, but some flowers need more attention in a heatwave and simply need us to provide physical shade from the blazing sun. This is where our old bedsheets come into play, as a modest but massively effective method of providing protection for our blooms.