The longest day of the year is rapidly approaching and our dry season is firmly upon us. Grasslands have flushed green, flowered and been pollinated by the wind. Many of the colorful wildflowers of spring have bloomed sending out their signals to be pollinated by some busy insect or bird. And now at the tail end of peak season, the Farewell To Spring (or if you prefer Hello To Summer) Clarkia rubicunda has begun to bloom. The first flowers of the plants by the front fence opened this first week in June. Luckily the entire show takes a few weeks to unfold, the flowers begin closer to the ground successively opening up multiple two foot tall stems. Farewell to Spring is one of many species of Clarkia found in our area. The …
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