In terms of flowers, seed your garden with pansies, violas, snapdragons and alyssum. Sedmak said early summer is the time to get warmer season plants such as tomatoes and peppers in the ground.
I marveled at birds that clung upside down to the shaggy, gold disks, wings fluttering, looting the seeds. Sunflowers defined flowers for me that summer and changed my view of the world.