White Rabbit, White Rabbit, White Rabbit

White rabbit, white rabbit, white rabbit!   

OK, with that business taking care of, we can get on with recent events.  The Botanic Garden was lovely on Monday.  The weather was warmer than normal by a fair bit, so everything was early.  Despite the recent winds, some cherries still had blossoms.  Our Nature's Notebook observations revealed that the showy milkweed, Asclepius speciosa, had made its first appearance.  

Sakura cherry blossoms

Tree peony

Species tulip

Double pink crab apple

Creeping phlox in the HDRG

Anemones, pasque flowers, grape hyacinth, early iris, and more was flowering. 

I busied myself afterwards with labels.  Sphaeralcea sp. went in the Bugarium north beds.  Sporobolus wrightii went in the Cottonwood Gallery.  In between were half a dozen others.  There are now 51 of the Backyard Refuge labels in the ground.