United States National Arboretum

It wasn't transplanted on time.

It was like, why didn't I know that that custom order for the National Arboretum wasn't done on time or that the stuff didn't come in? You know, and it's like somebody knew it.

You know, it just wasn't.

it wasn't communicated down the line to sales, to whoever else needed to know it.

It'll look closely at almost any landscape in Maryland, from the coastal marshes to the eastern shore to rugged mountain trails, where you'll find a sedge, a member of the Carex family.

You can register for that for free at mdflora.org. And on Saturday, November 7th, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the National Bonsai and Penyang Museum at the U.S. National Arboretum is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

You can join in the celebration with a full day of festivities, including museum tours, family activities, and during museum hours, all these activities will be free.

You can find out more at thefriendsofthenationalarboretum.org, so phona.org website.

East Potomac Park at Haines Point has a four-mile loop lined with trees, and the Kwanzaa cherries there bloom a couple of weeks later.

The National Arboretum blooms later too.

Stanton Park on Capitol Hill is small and lovely.

And Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown has Cherry Hill, a slope of cherry trees at the bottom of the garden, which ties back to number five.

Crape myrtle's importance to Texas landscaping has been well-documented over the last couple of hundred years.

Very recently, however, new varieties with Native American names have been introduced from the National Arboretum, and they're terrific.

Yaupon hollies by comparison are evergreen.

They always look about the same.

It was really sweet.

Um, and if you are listening to this later on, Jonah or Rory, uh, just as a reference, I brought Rory to the National Arboretum and took a picture of him next to that bald cypress that I worked on.

So, you know, don't ever say I didn't do anything cool as w- [laughs] as, you know.

Of course.

Yeah.

One of the attendees at a walk at the National Arboretum in DC, a woman named Deidre Bailey, she captured this perfectly.

She described the experience as being beautifully both introverted and extroverted.

I love that phrasing.