Arisaema ringens and its unidentified friend coming out to play

The first spring rose

Made some pots

The white ume is the most spectacular

Suburban hot springs hotel

4本目の梅の木が咲き出した。

一番早い梅の木が咲いている。 蜂と目白が回ってる。 First of the ume trees flowered. Bees and mejiro birds flying about.

Ikei Island, Okinawa 伊計島、沖縄

Cape Zanpa, Okinawa 残波岬、沖縄

A week or so ago we got the first ever fig from the tree a friend planted. I hadn’t known the trees don’t flower before fruiting (the flowers are in the fig). About 10 figs appeared but only this one managed to ripen- so far. We split it 4 ways.

This year’s fruit I didn’t know: mube. It has a similar sickly sweet taste to akebi, but the fruit is round instead of sausage shaped, doesn’t split open on the tree, and has bigger seeds. The vine's leaves are also bigger and glossier.

Toad lily, Tricyrtis hirta 斑入りほととぎす 斑入り ふいり variegated, spotted ホトトギス属 Tricyrtis genus

Autumn on the balcony. I don't even know what this plant is.