Botanical Gardens

After the zoo we did head over to the Botanical Gardens.  We found a lot of cool things, but BY FAR my favorites were the Lenten roses (hellebore) that Eric and I have been wanting for our yard for a couple of years (they had them EVERYWHERE) and a Snowball Viburnum - AMAZING! 

Mom loved the amazing glass 'flowers' they had all over.  So cool!

Entrance to the gardens

more glass 'flowers"

Hellebores

Snowball fight!!  

I love this picture of the sooo full Viburnum bush

Mom and I on a timer with the Viburnum - its a waaay better picture cropped but blogger can't figure out how to load it (keeps flipping it around) - so you'll just have to trust me.

(well here it is...flipped)

Anyway, we also found this really cool tree.  Red heart shaped leaves (BK - what is it?!)

After the gardens we had a great lunch and headed to the plant sale to get some heriloom tomatoes, meet up with BK and her JoJuice and Eric's mom too!  After we saw all these fun plants at the Botanical Gardens we actually ended up finding a couple of decent priced hellebores (their usual $15-$20 price tag is what kept us from getting them before - but priced at $2 and just needing some love to make them grow we could handle!)  We also found one of the snowball viburnum bushes for sale and got one!  I am sooo excited to see that grow in our yard!

at the plant show with Mom

at the plant show with Miss Kevin.

Whew!  what a weekend - and so far we are only through FRIDAY!  lol  :)