May 22 -- Lodi Farms

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On the 22nd, we visited Lodi Farms nursery, looking for a birthday present.

Of course I had to check out all the flowers.........

Fairly early on I realized it was, like, a *nursery*, and all the plants were, like, *labeled*.

Then I even remembered to look at the tags. Mostly.

So I know that this, which I sort of thought maybe was hydrangea when I saw it on campus a couple of weeks ago, is really a viburnum.

No scent that I noticed, on the 22nd or when I saw them a few weeks ago.

What a shame -- scented viburnum smells sooooooooooooooo good..........

Ah well.





Dogwood. These were big -- maybe 3" across?





Another dogwood. I didn't like the look of this one from a distance as well as the one above, but it's very cool up close, don't you think? These were much smaller than the kind above -- half the size, maybe. Or two thirds, anyway.







Lamium. Lavender this time.





Columbine.









Oops. Forgot to look at the tag. Looking at it now, I am guessing cotoneaster. These flowers are small. Under half an inch across.





Closeup of lower right of above.





Potentilla.





Every single shot of the pink potentilla was blurry. Argh.

I decided that I liked the color and composition well enough to show it to you anyway. (Note that dried up last-year's whatever in upper left is nice and crisp. Sigh.)



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