The flower looks like an Echeveria (same family as Crassula). The rosette is also quite Echeveria-ish, but there are so many hybrids both within the genus and involving other close relatives that I’d hesitate to attempt any more precise ID.
A potted donkey-tail spurge is working up a flower. I’ll give it a few more days, then cut it off. This is a neat potted plant but don’t put it in the ground. Also the sap makes you go blind. Fun!
And finally, one of the few non-native plants we’ve planted, this handsome devil is Partridge Feather, a low-growing Tanacetum from Turkey. Often hard to find in the nursery trade, the general advice is “if you see it, BUY IT IMMEDIATELY.” Can handle high desert, turns into a moderate little mat.
My pink salvia from last month, it’s since faded back with the presumably may night salvia being kind of a thug in front of it. The Mays are allowed to stay here because they are all still prolifically in bloom & mostly covered in bumblebees during the day.
Fingers crossed. Hummingbirds found our yard because of *milkweed and bee balm and then we added feeders as an extra incentive. They peek in our windows now.
Our milkweed is a different than the species you have in your yard so ymmv using milkweed as a lure. Asclepias syriaca (Common Milkweed)
Penstemon Gilchrist is not quite good enough for our plucky governess, and becomes a Catholic priest working with the East End poor. They remain lifelong friends.
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Our milkweed is a different than the species you have in your yard so ymmv using milkweed as a lure. Asclepias syriaca (Common Milkweed)
Penstemon Gilchrist is not quite good enough for our plucky governess, and becomes a Catholic priest working with the East End poor. They remain lifelong friends.