So Alene and I drove to UC Davis on Saturday to see the UC Davis Arboretum Plant Sale.
Who knew they'd have a plant sale during a helicopter show?
The plant sale is put on as a fund raiser for, I assume, the ag department. Students work on the hybrids and such during the year, and the seedlings and young plants produced are sold in the spring. Lots of neat plants for sale, and Alene loves her plants, and I like just being outdoors, so we we took off Saturday morning, picked up Liz at her apartment in Davis, and headed over to the campus.
Imagine my surprise seeing a plant show
at a helicopter show!
Apparently the helicopter crew was practicing a horse rescue. There was a dummy horse laying in the field, and they were practicing letting the line down by the horse in the field. The lifted off and set down several times, completely distracting me from the purpose of our trip - plants - but the helicopter was noisier and shinier and can you really blame me?
But after the helicopter crew left, we got back to the business at hand, the plant sale. Actually, there was a lot on display, and Alene was able to find a few pretty cool plants for the yard. Don't ask me their names - they are green, mostly. And one or two of them flower. I think. But the place DID smell very good.
Alene and Liz seemed to have a good time.
Afterward, with the plants safely put away in the car, we took a short walk through the arboretum nearby. UC Davis actually has a really cool arboretum area that runs all along Putah Creek (I think that's the name) that runs through the campus. The foliage along the creek is maintained by students as part of the ag courses, and is broken up into different regional themes, if you will. On area is, say, redwood forest themed, and the next is Mediterranean themed, or grassland, or something like that. I'm not sure exactly which themes you'd call them, but it's a nice place for a walk and a picnic. Very pretty. We took a short walk through the Gazebo area, which is set up as a summer garden, just beginning to bloom.
Take a look at the legs on this bee. He's just laden with pollen.
Now to get the plants we bought into the ground!