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rhododendron time
Jun. 2nd, 2025 07:51 amFlowers naturally bloom in succession, not all at once. For the past week or two, around here it seems like peak rhododendron time. On Friday friends suggested that I go to Moore State park with them to seem such blooms in big heaps
https://www.mass.gov/locations/moore-state-park
It's over than an hour drive from home and I had just spent lots of time in the car the day before getting my friend to and from her medical appointments, so I decided against it. In fact on Thursday we did do a bit of garden tourism. There was a two-hour space between two of E's appointments, so we went to the Arnold Arboretum* for an hour of that.
https://arboretum.harvard.edu/
I would never have thought of it, because I usually have gone there on the T, a long trip, but we had a car, and it turns out to be only a 15 minute drive from the BW parking garage to the Arboretum, where we did see some rhodies, as my long-gone next-door neighbor used to call them, among lots of other beauty.
(should I have put some sort of run-on sentence alert before that?)
Besides, I didn't need to go anywhere in a car to see many many rhododendrons in full bloom. At some point there must have been a trend in Lexington, because there are some on every street I go down. There is a big one in my own yard, but I particularly like this one, which from a certain angle obscures almost the entire street side of a house about half a mile from me.
* There is a somewhat smaller arboretum in Chapel Hill, NC
https://ncbg.unc.edu/visit/coker-arboretum/
When I was a student there in the 1970s, I lived in a dorm just adjacent to it. We all called it "The Arb."
I hadn't thought of that in years, but when I was typing arboretum above, my fingers almost quit after the b.
https://www.mass.gov/locations/moore-state-park
It's over than an hour drive from home and I had just spent lots of time in the car the day before getting my friend to and from her medical appointments, so I decided against it. In fact on Thursday we did do a bit of garden tourism. There was a two-hour space between two of E's appointments, so we went to the Arnold Arboretum* for an hour of that.
https://arboretum.harvard.edu/
I would never have thought of it, because I usually have gone there on the T, a long trip, but we had a car, and it turns out to be only a 15 minute drive from the BW parking garage to the Arboretum, where we did see some rhodies, as my long-gone next-door neighbor used to call them, among lots of other beauty.
(should I have put some sort of run-on sentence alert before that?)
Besides, I didn't need to go anywhere in a car to see many many rhododendrons in full bloom. At some point there must have been a trend in Lexington, because there are some on every street I go down. There is a big one in my own yard, but I particularly like this one, which from a certain angle obscures almost the entire street side of a house about half a mile from me.
* There is a somewhat smaller arboretum in Chapel Hill, NC
https://ncbg.unc.edu/visit/coker-arboretum/
When I was a student there in the 1970s, I lived in a dorm just adjacent to it. We all called it "The Arb."
I hadn't thought of that in years, but when I was typing arboretum above, my fingers almost quit after the b.
