My mother in law lives in Amakusa, Kyushu, Japan. Her garden is huge with a most incredible varity of plants. Actually it is more of a plantation of all sorts of vegetables, former rice fields, Amagaki trees and even a large pond with fish and turtles. She is permanately at war with the wild pigs that descend upon her plants. Here are some photos of the many flowers that also grow there. They were taken after a mornng rain shower and later in the summer heat of the day. August 22nd 2009.