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Pretty sure the “alien thing” blooming is a rhododendron
I’d say the alien is a rhododendron.
Once the alien-looking thing bursts open, the flower head will have some very pretty blossoms. Rhodies grow wild here along creeks and rivers.
Dear Padre z – As long as the boy birds and flowers,and the girl birds and flowers know what they are, and can find each other, who cares?
They are beautiful
Kind of like TLM and the vernacular mass when its done right, don’t you think?
The ‘Alien’ plant looks to me like “nerium” also called oleaster, or rhododendron: look at the scientific literature!
http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenaref/lonitzer/loni1/jpg/s078a.html
I am so happy to see the photo of the Lilac. My childhood home was surrounded by Lilacs and they simply filled the air with their fragrance in the spring, and we used to chase the cottonwood cotton as it blew across the yard when we were very small children.
I never feel that spring is here until I smell lilac, and it does not grow here. Your photo brought the scent right into my home thanks to the vividness of memory when triggered.
Father Z, the “alien” is definately a Rhododendron. and the lilac is the variety “sensation”
DEFINITELY a rhododendron. They grow like weeks in the forest near my place in Northern California. Some of them get quite large, and they live to a ripe old age. There is one very like yours in my front yeard.
Looking at that cottonwood, you are in my prayers Father if you have any spring allergies!
Father,
Your mountain laurel certainly looks like it has a post bloom magnolia cast to it. Are you fertalizing a bit much?