Plants I'm Growing--First Blooms: Rhododendron "Queen Nefertiti" (2010)

First blooms of 2010 yesterday on the "Queen Nefertiti" Rhododendron by the fountain. "Queen Nefertiti" bloomed on May 11 in 2009. A year according to this plant was therefore 370 days.

First blooms today (May 17) on the large, smelly,  furry-leaved Salvia under the pear tree. I'm afraid I've lost track of the species name of that one....