How is your garden looking today?

we "soften up" some clumps by letting pink fennel grow,(it like dill, its not a perennial but it seeds itself). The fennel is NOT edible but its fethery like and smells with that distinctive licorice odor that is so fenocchio like.
The whispy fronds are sorta green pinkish red and we have them with the smaller and bigger blue salvias and those new pink and red and white zinnias, The fennels draw in all kinds of swallowtail butterfly varieties and they giv us these fennel eatin caterpillars.

This looks like the echinacea in my garden :-)
Other thoughts I have are comfrey or perhaps a rudbeckia.

Stuff truly prefers to develop here. Presently, concerning the back yard, stuff truly prefers to develop here!

What is this plant and is it toxic to dogs?
https://photos.app.goo.gl/TE9dcxKLCxfVzu627
This is in Perth, Western Australia in my back yard.
Cheers,
Jonny

planted lettuce plants and sewed mesculen mix seeds in a cold frame

Garden is looking good, been a dry and sunny April in Scotland. Actually the grass is starting to yellow, need a little rain! With all the garden centres closed I have been trying to get some annual bedding plants on the go; marigolds, godetia, antirrhinum, calendula and nasturtiums. Veg wise, got some peas, courgette and squash growing; my beans don't seem to be germinating though. Wee tomato plants are looking good. Trying cucamelon again this year... last try wasn't very successful, here's hoping. So glad to have a garden during the epidemic, very lucky :-) Hope everyone is well.

is there a common name for godettia? I want to see it. Im looking for some various shade loving ground covers .Right now We have a section that lies beneath a great pin oak that is full of these "Purple Deanettle" . They look neat for about a week when all the purple is out and its in a time of year thats usually wet and leafless(just before tulips bloom0. Then all the leves dey and it looks like ****.

Ive got all my cool weather crops in. Sugar Pod Peas by the mile, lettuce, mesculen, radishes, beets, carrots. (Ill not plant onions anymore, I can get em better at the market .

Im trying blueberries and service berries again. This year I dug several holes really deep with my tractor and filled each hole with about a half bale of peat moss (acidification, our soil is too sweet for blueberries without lotsa sulfur or peat moss.

Farmerman, you may know godetia as clarkia https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/84578/Clarkia-amoena/Details
They are great bedding plants and I find they usually self seed a bit too, giving me a few early extra plants the next year.
Your crops sound fantastic. Good luck with the blueberries! I have killed so many blueberry plants over the years, even in pots of peat! I think they don't like pots but my garden doesn't have suitable soil. I have some beets on the go, they are very tiny, but unfortunately I never seem to get great results in the garden, they tend to bolt and only develop the tiniest, hardest little roots!
Regarding shade loving plants, my favourite is hosta. Would take a while to ground cover with them, and probably quite expensive to try that. But I have quite a lot in pots at the shadowy side of the house, and they look beautiful! They are just starting to unfurl their first little leaves at the moment, lovely!

I have a hosta area and we love em except they are like a smorgasboard for deer. Deer dont only like to look at em. My hostas lay beneath a gnarly crab apple that Ive been pruning into a huge bonsai in the last 25 years. Im almost ready to get a pet cougar and not feed it . No, thats pobably not well thought out.
Hostas are not a problem around here, everybody has loads of varietals and are happy to share cause the plants do seed easily and are easily divided(and need a good dividing every 3 years or so.
We have a hosta swap thing in early summr just before they flower

Do clarkia look like petunias. Ill go to my big book of plnts that can grow in zone 6.5

The hosta swap sounds fantastic! Never really had hostas self seed round here. Have sometimes wondered about buying some hosta seeds to try growing them from scratch, maybe I'll do that!

They are similar size flowers to petunias, godetia plants tend to be a little taller. They are happy in similar conditions to petunias, but are a little hardier.

I found em in a book of native wildflowers. They are native to our west coast, they dont like it on the est cost. I dont blame em, too many people.

spent this very warm Sunday MAKING VITAMIN D. I planted my sweet taters, some more Romaine lettuce seedlings. Pimped up the soil around the patio walls To receive dahlias and zinnia, and planted my first row of yella beans.

With such a mild winter and early spring this year, my garden is blooming marvellous! I have all my bedding plants planted out already, and the vegetable patch is full of life too - pea pods are ripening already! I even had some little carrots thinned out for a salad, alongside the radishes and little gem lettuce! I am even ready to pick my first cucumber from the greenhouse!! Warm sunshine each day, with handy showers in the evening saving on watering time!
I've got a feeling this is going to be a great summer for the garden!

I've heard that from several zones.

Ive planted my leek seeds in little seed pots and am starting to make red potato sets (Buy some taters and put em in a bag in the cold, they set stems and roots)
Iv planted about 8 pots of forced daffodil an jonquils.
Nex week I plant peas outside DIRECTLY ON THE SNOW

Looks similar to Rosemary.

Michigan here.
Every day more green
Crocuses, hyacinths hello.
I always think winter or fall is my favorite season then spring comes along.

Sweet! We're in the greater Toronto area, and the sedum are coming along nicely. I found a few hosta spikes poking through yesterday, too, and the maple trees are budding. Soon enough there will be a fuzzy green in the forest, and then everything will explode. I want it so bad this year.