Despite

The ground is beginning to give off heat; nevertheless, among what's growing and blooming there are the following non-potted flowers: bachelor buttons, California poppies. delphiniums, the usual zinnias (pink, as always), yellow cosmos, and tithonia (called Mexican sunflowers by many). Without any assistance, we have wild sunflowers of various sorts, blue dayflowers (spiderworts), and ruellia.