Specialty Gardening: Garden Shots 2- Summer's here, keep those pics coming!, 1 by Sonoita

Sonoita wrote:
My garden is behaving very oddly this year. My 'cottage garden' is almost non existent this year, everything else is limping along. I had some good lessons this year regarding soil prep and mulching. I prepared less aggressively and later this year, then I used oat straw for mulch which still had seeds, much to my dismay! Our rains are late and scarce this year, true gardening in the desert experience.
I have my glads blooming, and sunflowers. Here are a few individual pics, I'll do the big picture next.