yard, Japanese dogwood in the front, Japanese red maple by the bench, magnolia with small (for a magnolia) pale yellow flowers on the right
the embankment to the south, still fluffy with 2m high weeds
What is a creature with the body of a cat and the head of a yellow iris called?
cucumbers
trees from the left, red maple, summer camelia, ??, Japanese green maple
strawberries to the left (I picked off all the flowers so no strawberries in 2008), tomatoes to the right of the strawberries, the unfortunate green peas behind the tomatoes and cucumbers to the left. Summer camelia behind the slide, green Japanese maple front right, and I don't know what the tree behind it is called.
Yamaboshi (Japanese dogwood?) flowers are coming along.
Yellow iris. See, Mom, they do exist!
Pink ostespermum and mystery blue flower. It blooms really prettily every morning and drops all its blossoms by early afternoon. Anyone?
The Japanese red maple is starting to turn a bit green. It starts red in the spring, turns green in the summer, and back to red in the fall. The magnolia (background) is already finished blooming. It was only a few days. 
The green Japanese maple is starting to turn a bit red at the edges. It would be kind of neat if they changed colors and then went back again.
