December GBBD - Country Mouse

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day is upon us and surprisingly, on our Central California coastal ridge, I do have a few blooms to share. Our weather has been drier and sunnier than average, and some summer bloomers just don't know when to stop.

Resprouting 'Hot Lips' salvia - I don't mind that this one just won't go away. The hummers love 'em.

Final few blooms on the wondrous and amazingly scented Salvia clevelandii 'Winifred Gilman'

Thank goodness for Epilobium canum, aka Zauschneria californica. These local natives keep the hummers a-hummin'

Sierra Foothill Garden has a lovely post on Zauschneria btw.

I'm loving this tiny Viola adunca that decided to take up an abode in our garden. here, wet with dew.

Another reliable hummingbird feeder well into late fall, the South African plant, Cape Honeysuckle, Tecomaria capensis. It's very robust, doesn't need water, glossy evergreen foliage, gets huge, and I haven't seen it spread by seed or sucker.

Coast sunflower, Encelia californica, a southern California native. Sprawls and takes no care but whackin' back.

I got this climbing or rambling rose for my dad's cottage, but he didn't want it so I put it against the fence in the pool garden where it is happy as a clam, but much prettier. I forget what kind it is.

This sweet pea bush has been quietly blooming in the corner of the garden without fuss or trouble for about six years. Almost always has flowers.

A few remaining Verbena lilacena 'De La Mina' - reliable garden native.

This non-native Jerusalem Sage has lovely big leaves and is still blooming.

I like this picture of one of the last coyote mint,  Monardella villosa flowers. I'm in a bit of a quandary as I recently discovered local wild Monardella villosa, and am propagating them, or trying to. Looking for seedlings to appear every day. So the nursery bought plants are probably going for a toss, as my Indian friends say.

Well, that's the roundup. I have a few seaside daisies besides, in the "front" garden, but it's dark and rainy outside and I forgot to snap their portraits yesterday, so you can just imagine their happy little daisy faces.

By the way, Ms. Town Mouse is skipping bloom day this month (unless she changes her mind) due to lack of actual blooms in her more shady garden.

Now, off to May Dreams Gardens to register and enjoy a sampling of some other gardeners' blooms! Thanks as ever for hosting this meme, Carol!