I have a vegetable garden that is doing okay, except that the rabbits have eaten half my butterbean plants and most of the garlic never sprouted. Tomatoes, miniature pumpkins, butternut squash are thriving; potatoes and onions are doing pretty well. The whole thing is overrun with weeds, and I think that, come fall, I'm going to borrow a tiller and rip everything up and cover it with a weed barrier. I've got a perennial bed that is perennially under construction, and a combination herb and flower bed with dill, lavender, lots of cilantro, chives, sage, rosemary, lemon thyme, sunflowers that sprang up from spilled birdseed, zinnias, lantana, and a couple of roses. Down by the mailbox, which is hot and dry, I have really hardy things like daylilies, coneflowers, perennial salvia, and a butterfly bush.