Late Fall - Front/Back

Little harvest from the yard

Replanting a Rose

Planted a rose after replanting gladiolus. Hope this one survive a winter . Replanted from a pot, says it best strives around 60F

October - new addition/replant

 3 new flowering beds - with replanted gladiolus  and new tulips buds for next spring.

October - squash in the yard

New

From the garden

2 new knockout roses planted

On this day 9/11, I planted 2 knockout roses, one red/pink mix and another pink in the yard. 

More roses to add

Got 2 more knockout roses (red and pink) to plant with one rose growing in a base.

Blueberry harvest Aug/Sept 2011

Blueberries from the yard!!

This year we had a lot of blueberry from 3 bushes. So far, picked them 4 times. 

September 2011 - Knockout roses 4th blooming and a wild flower

August 2011

Gladiolus -August 2011

Blueberry - August 2011

August 2011

Gladiolus = July 2011

Gladiolus (from Latin, the diminutive of gladius, a sword) is a genus of perennial bulbous flowering plants in the iris family (Iridaceae).^[1] Sometimes called the sword lily, the most widely used English common name for these plants is simply gladiolus (plural gladioli, gladioluses or sometimes gladiolas).
The genus is distributed in Mediterranean Europe, Asia, Tropical Africa and South Africa. The center of diversity of the genus is located in the Cape Floristic Region, where most species were discovered.^[2]
The genus Gladiolus contains about 260 species, of which 250 are native to sub-Saharan Africa, mostly South Africa. About 10 species are native to Eurasia. There are 160 species of Gladiolus endemic in southern Africa and 76 in tropical Africa. The flowers of unmodified wild species vary from very small to perhaps 40 mm across, and inflorescences bearing anything from one to several flowers. The spectacular giant flower spikes in commerce are the products of centuries of hybridisation, selection, and perhaps more drastic manipulation.

グラジオラス（Gladiolus）は、アヤメ科グラジオラス属の植物の総称。主に園芸植物として植えられている。別名、トウショウブ（唐菖蒲）、オランダショウブ（阿蘭陀菖蒲）。名前は古代ローマの剣であるグラディウスに由来し、葉が剣に類似していることが根拠と言われる。花穂が長く突出していることから、東北地方では「ナガラ」「ナガラベソ」などと呼ばれる。日本では明治時代に輸入され、栽培が開始された。根は湿布薬の材料に使われる。
原産地は、アフリカ・地中海沿岸など。春に球根（球茎）を植え、夏の7月～8月にかけてに赤、黄、オレンジ、白などの花を開花する。葉（一説には花が咲く前の一連のつぼみ）が剣のようなのでGladius（ラテン語で「剣」）にちなんで名づけられた。春植え球根として流通しているものが一般的だが、一部の原種には秋植え球根で、春に開花するものもある。
花言葉には勝利・密会・用心などがある。

Pentas orJoe-Pye Weed - not sure but nice - July 2011

This was planted two years ago in the back. Got them from a friend's mother along with Iris. Didn't bloom last year, but this year it came out. I am not sure of its name - looks very much like a family of Pentas or Joe-Pye Weed.

Referencing to Wikipedia, this looks more of a kind of Rubiaceae family flower??

Pentas is a genus of the Rubiaceae family of flowering plants. Pentas lanceolata is a particularly popular species. The plants have dark green, lance-shaped, somewhat furry and deeply veined leaves providing a backdrop for prolific clusters of never-ending, five-petaled flowers. These may be red, white, lavender, purple, or shades of pink. Some are two-toned. All are extremely attractive to butterflies, and the red and dark pink varieties delight hummingbirds. Also Pentas is compatible with the dry soil and intense heat of the Floridian sun. Lastly It can withstand full sunlight with little to no care
Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the madder family, bedstraw family or coffeefamily. Other common plants included are gardenia, cinchona (whose bark contains quinine), sweet woodruff,partridgeberry, gambier, ixora, and noni. A number of traditionally accepted families (Dialypetalanthaceae,Henriqueziaceae, Naucleaceae, and Theligonaceae) are now incorporated within the Rubiaceae followingmolecular phylogenetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. Currently, there are about 611 generaand more than 13,000 species in Rubiaceae. It is the fifth largest family of flowering plants by number of genera, and the fourth or fifth largest by number of species. Species are concentrated in warmer and tropical climates around the world.

Eutrochium is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in Asteraceae. They are commonly referred to as Joe-Pye weeds. They are native to Eastern North America and have non-dissected foliage and pigmented flowers. It includes all the purple flowering North American species of the genusEupatorium as traditionally defined.^[1] Eupatorium has recently undergone some revision and has been broken up into smaller genera.^[2] Eutrochium is the senior synonym ofEupatoriadelphus.^[3] Eupatorium in the revised sense (about 42 species of white-flowered plants from the temperate Northern hemisphere) is apparently a close relative of Eutrochium. Another difference between Eutrochium and Eupatorium is that the former has mostly whorled leaves and the latter mostly opposite ones.^[4][5] Eupatorium and Eutrochium are both placed in the subtribe Eupatoriinae, but South American plants which have sometimes been placed in that subtribe, such as Stomatanthes, seem to belong elsewhere in the tribe Eupatorieae.^[6]

Eutrochium purpureum (Eupatorium purpureum (Linnaeus) E. E. Lamont), Kidney-root^[1], Sweetscented Joe-Pie weed, Sweet Joe-Pye weed, or Trumpet weed is a herbaceous perennial plant native to eastern and central North America.^[2]

E. Purpureum is a clump forming plant that grows to 1.5 – 2.4 meters (5 – 8 feet) tall and about 1.2 meters (4 ft) wide. Plants are found in full sun to part shade in moisture retentive to wet soils. Stems are upright, thick, round, and purple, with whorls of leaves at each node. As the plant begins to bloom the stems often bend downward under the weight of the flowers. The leaves grow to 30 cm (12 in) long and have a somewhat wrinkled texture. The purplish colored flowers are produced in large loose, convex shaped compound corymbiform arrays. Plants bloom mid to late summer and attract a lot of activity from insects that feed on the nector produced by the flowers. This species hybridizes readily with other species of Eutrochium and where this species and those species overlap in distribution the resulting plants can be difficult to resolve to a specific taxon.^[3] There are two varieties that differ in the pubescence of the stems and foliage, but many more have been proposed in the past, thought most authorities now accept that this is a variable species and population variations integrate.

Knockout Roses - 3rd bloom - July 2011

Hydrangea - late start for blooming - July 2011

アジサイ（紫陽花、英名・学名: Hydrangea）とはアジサイ科アジサイ属の植物の総称である。学名は「水の容器」という意味で、そのまま「ヒドランジア」あるいは「ハイドランジア」ということもある。また、英語では「ハイドレインジア」と呼ぶ。
Hydrangea ( /haɪˈdreɪndʒⁱə/;^[1] common names Hydrangea and Hortensia) is a genus of about 70 to 75 species of flowering plants native to southern and eastern Asia (China, Japan, Korea, the Himalayas, and Indonesia) and North and South America. By far the greatest species diversity is in eastern Asia, notably China, Japan, and Korea. Most are shrubs 1 to 3 meters tall, but some are small trees, and others lianas reaching up to 30 metres by climbing up trees. They can be either deciduous or evergreen, though the widely cultivated temperate species are all deciduous.
Having been introduced to the Azores Islands of Portugal, they are now very common there, particularly on Faial Island, which is known as the "blue island" due to the vast number of hydrangeas present on the island, and on Flores Island. and Sao Miguel.

Hydrangea is the flower of Haruno in Kochi where I was born.
あじさいの町: 高知県・春野町 春野ナビ（春野商工会）
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNNiv_wtaiE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YcLtfpTE5U&feature=related

Another Lily started blooming - July 2011

New addition - July 2011

Pumpking or ???? - July 9 2011

This is growing in the backyard - looks similar to a pumpkin but not sure. Letting it grow to see whether any flower or something grows out. Could be a biggest weed???

Asian Lily - July 2011

Knockout Roses - July 2011

Knockout roses are now well rooted and growing. 2nd blooming.

Annuals July 2011

Annuals in the front blooming well. Lilies coming out too.

My favorite view

Behind the bench  is a Dogwood tree (with white flowers, not yet bloomed) planted last year. 

Dogwood Tree

The name "dog-tree" entered the English vocabulary by 1548, and had been further transformed to "dogwood" by 1614. Once the name dogwood was affixed to this kind of tree, it soon acquired a secondary name as the Hound's Tree, while the fruits came to be known asdogberries or houndberries (the latter a name also for the berries of black nightshade, alluding to Hecate's hounds). Another theory advances the view that "dogwood" was derived from the Old English dagwood, from the use of the slender stems of its very hard wood for making 'dags' (daggers, skewers, and arrows).

Another, earlier name of the dogwood in English is the whipple-tree. Geoffrey Chaucer uses "whippletree" in The Canterbury Tales ("The Knight's Tale", verse 2065) to refer to the dogwood. A whippletree is an element of the traction of a horse-drawn cart, linking the drawpole of the cart to the harnesses of the horses in file; these items still bear the name of the tree from which they are commonly carved.

ハナミズキ

|英名 =[[w:Flowering Dogwood|Flowering Dogwood]] ...も言われる。ハナミズキ（花水木、学名：Benthamidia florida）はミズキ科ミズキ属ヤマボウシ亜属の落葉高木。北アメリカ原産。別名、アメリカヤマボウシ。ハナミズキの名はミズキの仲間で花が目立つことに由来する。また、アメリカヤマボウシの名はアメリカ原産で日本の近縁種のヤマボウシに似ていることから。ハナミズキは英語ではdogwoodと呼ばれる。dogwoodの語源には諸説あるが、一説には17世紀頃に樹皮の煮汁が犬の皮膚病治療に使用されたためと言われ、他には木製の串（英古語:dag,dog）を作る材料に使われる堅い木であったことからとも言われる。ただし、犬の皮膚病治療に使ったとされるdogwoodは、同じミズキ科の植物でもセイヨウサンシュユと考えられており、ハナミズキとは異なる。





Annuals on the side - May 2011

Planted annuals and lilies on the side of Front Porch. Newly planted Asian lilies not yet coming out in May.

Stones are all from the yard collected when digging/cleaning.

One of the Asian lilies bloomed its first flower. They are slow to grow... the ones planted last year are now blooming in late June.