The mailing from the garden this month is entitled "Get Ready For June", and it's all about flowers. Nadia and I saw lots of flowers today. Here in the Asian Garden are geraniums, Meconopsis, Stewartia serrata, and Syringa sweginzowii, the lilac we posted last week that now has its flowers open. This clump of Azorella trifurcata in the Alpine Garden is covered in flowers too. I don't know how Nadia managed to see that some of the flowers had opened. I guess this will look more white than yellow next week when they're all open. But it was leaves that excited me. Here's Rubus tricolor, which is covering a a good stretch of ground in deep shade in the Asian Garden. Nadia noted the many different leaf shapes on the Lindera obtusiloba. I was taken with the difference in colour of the undersides of the leaves between the old and new leaves of rhododendrons. Here are Rhododendron fulvum, R. rex, and R. traillianum. This nice Cladrastis kentukea has alternately compound leaves that felt soft and surprisingly cold. It's at the far end of the North Garden.
Here are the fruits of the Azorella trifurcata, from August 28. We'd forgotten where this was and then confused it with something else, so we did not manage to see it when all the flowers were open.
