Flowers... 'Standing wave', borage、azalea, lilac, black-eyed susan, sumomo...

Note: Am dedicating this post to Malar, who had graciously nominated this humble blog for the 'Versatile Blogger Award'... 

Had been 'itching' for a while to post these flower pictures...

Some of them have been sitting in the hard-disk for many moons now...

This is a wild flower found in the surrounding hills... 

The scientific name is Scutellaria indica...

What a mouthful... again, prefer its Japanese name, タツナミソウ、literally, 'Standing wave' flower?

A member of the sage family...
I took back a specimen to plant it in our potager...

Borage is like, every where in our garden...
Not to say I am complaining...

In fact, I cannot get enough of their pretty flowers...

Mountain azaleas are also thriving in our garden...
They mainly come in colors of pink although some are whitish while others are somewhat orange...

The lilac never fails to bloom in early spring...
They are quite prolific, so to say...

And black eyed Susans... they have very much 'settled' down in a corner at our garden...
I actually prefer them to the sunflowers as cut flowers...

And finally, this series of pictures of flowers of our Japanese plum 'sumomo'...

We pruned this plant last autumn...

In spring, the blooms were plentiful...

And for reasons still unknown to us, the plant decided to die out on us...  sad...

China root berries, strawberries, pineapple sage, etc...

There has been just so much rain this year...

Not to say that I am complaining... 

It is just marvelous for the plants, in fact...

This is a picture of the berries of a climber plant called 'China root'...

They grow wildly in our property... 

The young shoots can be eaten as a vegetable (pictures next spring?)... 

Some folks use the berries to make wine but apparently they do not taste good... 

For the time being, we just plan to enjoy their beauty...

I bought two types of raspberry plants from the store some years ago... 

And they do give very good fruits...

Only thing I really have to do is to fertilize them more...

I had thought that this specie fruits only in spring but we found it fruiting this season...

Hmmm, lovely, of course... 

We had taken the liberty to name this beauty 'Princess Pink'... 

My suweeto haato found it growing semi-wild in the hills...

We took back some cuttings and this beauty of a rose has been thriving very well in our potager...

This white chrysanthemum is also grown by my missus... 

As with the above mentioned rose, this cutie has adapted very well to our environment...  

And finally, the pineapple sage... 

Apparently, the name comes from the pineapple-like fragrance that the flowers leaves emit when crushed...