Hi friends! Thanks for stopping by—I’m so glad you’re here! 😁

It dawned on me that I never shared the pics from this recent trip to the botanical garden, so here we go! Every day is an occasion for flowers, right? 😁

(Did I have to look up most of these in PlantSnap because I am The Worst at identifying all of the botanical things I love? Perhaps. 🙈)

Let’s start with a bang: my favorite flower of the day! This lavender/light blue beauty:

Miraculously, I did correctly ID it as a delphinium, but according to its sign, it’s also known as “guardian lavender.”

Like….

(Breath of the Wild has forever ruined the word “guardian” for me. 😵😂)

I had a literal field day in this bright little garden! The fountain shows nearby were the big attraction, which worked out well for me because I couldn’t care less about a fountain but do love an empty garden!

Give me a variegated leaf, and I’ll give you the world!

This deep plummy color! 😍 PlantSnap tells me this is a rhododendron, which sounds right because I knew it was a bushy spring flower I enjoy, I just can never tell rhododendrons and azaleas apart.

Give me a variegated flower and I’ll also give you the world! 😂

Another fun plummy flower that I see every year and can never identify! (Apparently, it’s a lupine!)

Ooh, this pretty peach color! This seems to be a “canna lily”—whatever that is! 😂

Lastly, I very much enjoyed these beautiful lavender trees! PlantSnap tells me they’re Empress trees, which is an A+ name. Bonus that they matched my shirt! 😁💜