More sunny yellow flowers - Country Mouse GBBD

Here in California our gardens are yawning in the summer heat, curling up and going to sleep. Ms Town Mouse is sharing her sunflowers, grindelia, and rudbeckia - all sunny yellow blooms. Here on the ridge (6 miles inland on a ridge above Santa Cruz) I also have a flotilla of yellow blooms to share - and a few late blooming Clarkia rubicunda (they are growing in a more shaded area than the ones I cut down already to gather their seed). And naked buckwheat, and rough-leaved aster - all local natives. Not shown are heart leaf penstemon, cape honeysuckle, Mexican sage, and a baby mallow that I planted last fall -- all of which have a some sparse blooms.

A reprise of a photo I showed on the first of the month - the only one I have of the wonderful 'Winifred Gilman' sage.

Oh these little pretties are totally wild - rough leaved aster. I love them!

In the pool garden, with my "art project" behind - a spread of common madia.

Naked buckwheat as ever was.

Naked buckwheat closeup

I like this messy wild look!

Madia with a red sage whose name I forget - a nursery ornamental.

ACK!! I spent half a day recently getting rid of these! Italian thistle. Pretty color though...

As is this clarkia rubicunda. I think they are poking through some other plant's leaves - can't recall exactly.

And for my grand finale - a metallic green bee - I don't know its name. Do you?

I'll hop on over to May Dreams Garden to post my blooms - Thanks, Carol! - And now -- yawn - I'm off to curl up myself. I'll hope to look in on some other more bloomiferous gardens in the morning.

Please do read on to see my co-blogger's garden blooms...