Azaleas at UNCC...

So, more pictures of my trip to the Botanical Gardens at UNCC. Here are some of the azaleas that were blooming.



This small tree filled with deep yellow blooms was amazingly fragrant when I walked under it.



And here is a close-up of the flowers.




This is something I had never seen before: a Spider Azalea (Rhododendron "Linearifolium").





I love this yellow one.


Have a beautiful day!

Rhododendrons at UNCC...

I love visiting other gardens. (I love visiting my garden, too, for that matter.) And yesterday I visited, for the first time, the Botanical Gardens at the University of North Carolina Charlotte.




I took lots and lots of pictures, most of which didn't do the subjects of the photographs justice, but I will share some of them just the same.




One large, woodsy area was planted with rhododendrons and azaleas and ferns and low-growing natives and cool, glenny stuff like that.




So, what you are looking at, if you don't know, and if you are indeed looking at the pictures, are some the rhododendrons.





They were incredibly gorgeous. And in some places, their fragrance filled the air. 'Twas so lovely.


Have a beautiful day!

Rhododendron prinophyllum...

So, something else charming is happening in our enchanting woods, in addition to the Flowering Dogwoods. Here is another fairy flower, floating in the air. They are easy to miss because they somehow seems to disappear unless you are looking directly at them.




These are a couple of native rhododendron shrubs: Rhododendron prinophyllum, also called Roseshell Azalea. What a wonderful thing it was to discover them after we moved here. Now, I look for them each spring. They actually technically aren't on our property; each shrub is on a different neighbor's land, but since no one else goes out to enjoy these woods, I pretend that both the shrubs are mine.




I would like to figure out how to propagate them so I could truly have these natives in my forest. They are so dainty and delicate. And they are fragrant, which only adds to their ethereal beauty.


Have a beautiful day!