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- Four-year-old Basil DiBenedetto of Portland takes a whiff of lilac blossoms on Saturday during the McLaughlin Garden’s annual Lilac Festival in Paris.
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- One of more than 125 different varieties of aromatic lilacs waits for the inevitable sniffing on Saturday from a few hundred people attending the McLaughlin Garden’s annual Lilac Festival. It continues from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m on Sunday and Monday, May 29 and 30. Admission is free.
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- After being told to do so by McLaughlin Gardens tour guide Jennifer Caldwell, Barry McCabe, center, of Farmington and son Jared McCabe feel the undersides of leaves on a Mist Maiden Yakushima rhododendron approaching bloom on Saturday during the Lilac Festival. “It feels like a blanket,” Barry McCabe said to his children and wife beside him.
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- This 20- to 30-year old Mist Maiden Yakushima rhododendron wasn’t ready to bloom on Saturday at the McLaughlin Gardens Lilac Festival, but when the blossoms emerge, they are the color of hot pink lipstick, tour guide Jennifer Caldwell of Milton Township said. “It’s one of our finest specimens,” Kristin Perry, director of horticulture, said.
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