In May, some friends & I were going to go to a park after our book group meeting, but it was too chilly & windy, so we postponed it till June. Instead, Mary Ann & I went to Pettiti's Garden Center nearby. I hadn't been there since it opened a couple years ago and so was happy to go. It's gigantic! A huge green house covers a couple acres and there is a large outside area filled with trees and shrubs. It took us at least an hour & a half to get through it all at a leisurely pace. 
   There was all sorts of flowers, both exotic and common. Even when they were familiar, they had unusual color variety, such as these roses that looked like a candy cane.

   This tree was nearly 8 ft. tall and reminded me of Asian paintings and Tiffany stained glass. I have no idea what it is, but it was pretty.
 

  
         
   I've seen many photos of fields in the Western U.S. filled with lupines, but have never seen the flower in real life. At the garden center they had some, with large strange looking petals, but we were disappointled by their unpleasent smell. 

   
        
There wasn't only pots, of flowers, there was some strange items in the store as well, but that must wait till the next installment....