I'm so happy that most all of my plant "children" survived a record-breaking hot summer.
Because we live near the tropics almost all of our plants are suitable for warm weather climates. Very few are desert-like; and these plants, such as cactus and some other things, don't really need too much water and so they kind of take care of themselves.
The other plants, though, are not desert plants. We have things like elephant ears, caladiums, ivy, and other plants of which I don't know their names -- all needing lots of water every day to stay alive.
One, especially, that we saw at Lowes and liked sits under the patio roof overhang, which is itself shaded by our Ash trees in the back yard, is really not a good outdoors plant. It is, I think, a houseplant -- one that should be kept indoors, away from direct sunlight. But we have it under lots of shade, and have to water it every day lest it wilts.
Those are in the back yard. In the front, we have lots of other plants in a planter I built around an oak tree I planted after I bought the house 20-something years ago. It's pretty big now, and grass won't grow under it
because of the shade. So, in the planter we have shade-loving plants that, you guessed it, need watering every day.
We water the oak tree occasionally with a deep watering device I saw on amazon.com. Imagine a giant needle, about three feet long, with holes at one end and a handle at the other, and a thing to screw in the hose under the handle. We stick that into the ground and get water to the oak's roots.
As fall is approaching some of the plants will die back (the caladiums, for example) and others will slow their growth getting ready for winter. Those growing from bulbs, like the caladiums and elephant ears, will I suppose grow again in the spring.
There's a photo on three of my plant "children," including the indoor plant that has done well in the summer heat.