Azalea Blossom Watch at the National Arboretum

I mentioned at the end of my White House Garden Tour post that I love azaleas. So naturally I had to go to the National Arboretum for Azalea Blossom Watch 2009. They have an incredible collection of azaleas that I had just found out about a couple of weeks before when I was there to look at the cherry blossoms. The first azaleas start blooming in early April and others are blooming as late as July, but the "peak" period for this year was the last week in April. Rich and I walked the trails for over an hour. It was just so breathtakingly beautiful. I've posted a few pics below, but you can see all of them in my Picasa album.