Road trip

We started our trip by visiting friends in Kirkland, just east of Seattle. While the guys rode mountain bikes on the Iron Horse trail (43 miles in total), V and I had a great time exploring the Bellevue Botanical Garden. It's a public garden with various areas such as the waterwise garden, the alpine one, Japanese section and the perennial border. This is where we were captivated by a flowering shrub without a name tag, so we took a photo of it and showed it to the staff at a local nursery. At one point three employees were studying the photo and searching reference books, but no one could come up with the name, so it remains a mystery!