Duranta erecta/ Duranta. Verbenaceae. Lamiales. Magnoliopsida. Tracheophyta Commonly called/Skyflower. Golden dewdrop Native to/Tropical America Native from/Mexico. South America Symbolism/Good fortune. Prosperity *Genus of about 30 species *Erect to spreading, bushy shrub or small tree with ovate to obovate, rich green leaves, to 3in(7cm)long. *Yellow fruirs will be able to seen with purple flowers. *The plant is named by Italian botanist Castore Dutante after the 15th century. *The epithet ‘erecta’ is Latin for “upright”. Photographed 7/15 8:58am 2025 Posted 7/18(Friday) 12:20pm 2025
Good evening 🌃. Duranta 💜 This flower is my favorite. It's blooming beautifully. I changed this Duranta flower a little 🤏🏻 to make it "Duranta". I'm growing Duranta in my garden. There are still only leaves 🙆🏻 Thank you for letting me see it. 🐰💗
@ラスカル Thank you for a message. How are you? I am happy to see your photo everyday, that means you are 👌 We are always together on GS. Have a great day! with smile 😊
@チャツネ Thank you. While I wax walking, I saw this flower…I stopped to see her~ Flowers are blooming on the stones on the ground. impressed! Let’s have a good day together! with smile 😊
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ Thank you for a message. Yes. I was walking ~ they showed ~ I took a pic of one part , blooming on the ground. Everyday is coming. Have a great day! 🐶
The name of my account has changed from "Duranta" to "Durantha" and I've changed it to reflect my favorite flower. 🤭It looks like it's going to be hot again today😆Oh, by the way, I've been eating one moist dried prune from California every day recently😋Because it's good for your eyes😘💞
Yumiko(California U.S.A) SAMA✨ Good mornevening, my lovely Yumi !🌅🌃 I saw your photo of Duranta electa flowers.😄🤗 They are very calm blue-purple flowers.💜🌿👌 In Japan, it is called "Duranta Takarazuka(宝塚)". This is because the purple color of the flower is the color of the Takarazuka Revue.🏤 It's called the Violet Code(スミレコード) and their motto is "Pure(清く), Correct(正しく), and Beautiful(美しく)" .💜😊 I posted a photo of the flowers "Duranta Takarazuka" to GS on October 16th last year.🙏 The flowers are blue-purple with white spots.💜💗🥰 Yumi, Have a nice day with 🤫！ Oni-chan will go to the two✌️ concerts tomorrow. 🏤🤗🌞✌️ So long. 😴💤🌌✨🎠✨ Hoitara-ne.(ほいたらね。👋🤭)
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ Good! I like prune,too. 😋 In my refrigerator now…there strawberries, peaches, bananas, red berries, mangos, pears, watermelon, grapes 🍇, all my favorite! I eat a little all of them every day. You like fruits, right! Let’s go for a good day. with smile 😊
In my fridge, there is a watermelon🍉 called "Pino Girl" that you can eat the seeds of. Last year, I grew it in my vegetable garden, but this year, I didn't grow any watermelons🍉. Then, my neighbor grew one, and yesterday I cut it up and gave half to my daughter and her husband. 🐰💗
@Yumiko (California U.S.A) SAMA✨ I'm sorry for the trouble you had finding my photo.🙇😢 Do you know that GS has a feature to search by specifying year and month ? Yumi don't have to search through all my photos.🤔🔍 Have a nice day！😄🌞✌️ So long.(Hoitara-ne.)🤭😴
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ How nice! I eat watermelon 🍉 everyday entire year. It’s my best fruit. I am not a vegetarian but…look like it. My refrigerator has all kind of fruits and vegetables. No meat. Yes! I have some ham. ‘Maguro’, ‘Red Salmon’…my lovely food. …long talk ~ to be continued ~ Have a nice day! with our smiles 😊😊
I see you like watermelons. I interpreted it a little differently, but last year I grew watermelons. I grew pino girl, orange🧡🍉, and yellow🍉. This year I didn't grow watermelons. I might grow them again next year🤭, but I think a small watermelon🍉 will fit in the fridge as is. It's nice to have lots of fruit. 🐰💗
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ Thank you for a message. You have your watermelon 🍉 in your yard! awesome. You can have all the time? I eat this 365days. ☺️with my health. Good day together! 😊
In my garden, I have trees, potted flowers, and flowers planted in the ground. Recently, I've been doing a little bit of gardening🤏🏻 in my vegetable garden. I grow summer vegetables🍆🫑🥒, peanuts🥜, zucchini, and bitter melon, and fruit trees include sweetie🍊, setoka🍊, dekopon, ponkan, persimmon, yuzu, kumquat, etc. Watering the flowers, vegetables, and trees takes quite a lot of time. 🐰💗
@スイート Thank you for a message. You live in the Northern pat of Japan. It’s nice at your place~ you can see the flowers and trees ~! We will have a nice time together on GS. Have a good day! with smile
In the field, I am currently growing vegetables such as okra, eggplant🍆, peppers🫑, shiso leaves, peanuts🥜, and Shimonita green onions. In the garden, I have a potted rose🌹 that is about to go dormant. It's hot again today. For lunch, I boiled some hiyamugi noodles and chilled them in the refrigerator. 🐰💗
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ How nice! impressed It makes you busy ~. It’s good for you. Our day is coming everyday. Nothing is changing ~ that makes us happy. Good day together with smile 😊
Yes ♡ Every day I feel happy and think, "What should I do today?" and my body starts by watering the vegetables and flowers. If I take care of them, the flowers and vegetables will grow properly, so I'm looking forward to it. I can't beat the heat though. 🐰💗
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ If you feel bored, you need to look for something! There are lots. Watching movies, reading books(indoor). Think of to go to gym. It’s nice place. 1~3 days a week. It’s fine. You can see the people at the gym. 🤗 We will have a good day together. 😊
Hehe 🤭 I'm not good at exercise, but I'm not good at interacting with people. I sometimes go out for morning coffee ☕ or lunch with friends. I've heard that some of my friends do yoga 🧘🏻, but I'm not really in the mood, so I just do something like yoga at home before going to bed. 😁
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ That’s good about ‘yoga’. My friends at the club, they swim and after that , they attend yoga classes. Our life is just once! Let’s take it easy to go for ~ happily! 😊
Maybe it's a little bit different. I'm not bad at interacting with people, I'm just not good at exercising. I think interacting with people is a matter of personality, regardless of age. Let's have fun every day🐰💗
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ I understand that. I was almost same by as you are you are. But I just went into ~ the people. They are nice. (We need select). Anyway you are happy at your home. 👍 😊
The time we have now will eventually change. As we get older, I think it's important to live a life without regrets, such as the places we want to go and the things we want to do. To help my husband recover from his hand surgery and regain his strength, we go out here and there in the car 🚙 and walk a lot. We also eat delicious food. Our second child, my eldest son, is due to be born next month. The rhythm of our lives may change again 🦆. 🐰💗
This is my eldest son and his wife's second child, and it seems that the second child will also be a girl. It seems that if you ask first about either of them, you will be told. 🤭Yes, I'm looking forward to the birth of my second grandchild. 🐰💗
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ How nice ! You will have 2nd grand female daughter. I know ~ today we can know ~ boy or girl after 6 months. In those days, we couldn’t know~ That was interesting wasn’t it? Good day. Take care of the heat. 😊
Yes, I think the fun comes later, but it might be a good thing because you can prepare to watch over the baby in advance. It seems like it rained last night, so it feels a little cooler this morning. Let's have a fun day today too. Thank you for your comments, as always. 🐰💗
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ How nice! You can have a nice time with your ground daughter! Happy 😃 Our life…family ~ and take care each others. And~ it will be next generation. I am thinking ~ how many years we can alive?! …15~20 years ~ less or more! We need to enjoy our lives by ourselves. (with husband)😊
We don't know what the future holds, but anything can happen at any time, so if we don't spend each day healthy and happy, we'll regret it. Lively and happy. Spend time with family. 🐰💗
@Yumiko (California U.S.A) Thank you for your understanding my poor English sentence. It’s will be hot day today ,too in Takarazuka. Have a nice day💐 Thanks Yumiko 😍
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ That’s right! Life is…not so long~. I mean another 30~40 years ~. Very soon ~ we will drive a car in the air. … It will not ours. Anyway young people work hard to go for new technology in 🇯🇵. I respect it Nice day together. 😊
@hiro_t Thank you for a message. ‘Takarzuka’…”ootori-ran”. I was fan of her(1970s). She is such a great lady. Life is good! LG🤞 Have a good day! with smile 😊
Yes, technology is definitely advancing. "Flying cars" are a dream come true, and it might actually be possible. It would be very convenient, but I wonder if birds would be surprised too.🐰💗
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ 😁That’s right~. All birds will be afraid of electric cars in the sky. “what’s going on in my bird world?!” We will be in the 🌌 sky when all things set up in the sky. 😊
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ In the future~ the car flying in the sky. They need sky drivers license! 👀 I do not think it’s coming in our days. Unknown word is still coming from now~ after we go to the sky happily. I am ok to think about my future. I will enjoy my life without any stress. Happy life! 😊
That's right. It seems like taking a nap helped him to rest and relieve his fatigue. If you're on full-time duty all day, you'll get tired. Rest is important. 🐰💗
There are various things to do while resting at home. Just to refresh my mood, if the weather is fine ☀️, I go out somewhere, take a walk 🚶🏻, eat something delicious, or go to a botanical garden or an event if there is one. Unfortunately, today is a fine ☔️, so I will stay at home. 🐰💗
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ Good! It depends of the weather🤞 Here, we have no rain till October. Blu sky in California. Just we are afraid of Wildfires. Good day together! 😊
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ Good! I can say it’s good you have rain constantly. We don’t. I water the flowers in my garden. Yesterday I was trimming my roses, one scratched strongly 🙄. That’s how…*sorry I am listening to … Itsuki Hiroshi~Enka… 🙇♀️sorry about that. Anyway my right arm doesn’t look good for a week. I will wear long sleeve swimsuit. Good day together! 😊
Is your right arm not feeling well? Are you right-handed? Is your painful right arm too cold from the air conditioning? I'm worried. You've been listening to Hiroshi Itsuki's music ♬♪ 🎤 Enka. Please take care of your right arm. 🐰💗
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ Thank you for a message. My right arm with scratches by 🌹. It’s getting better. I know…I should wear long sleeve shirts, but~ forget that(always). I put a special medical cream from my Doctor. 👍 “Itsuki Hiroshi” san…they say he is the #1 Enka singer in Japan 🇯🇵 today. I am listening to his songs. lovely Nice day together!😊
I see. I understand. I hope you recover day by day 🙏🏻 "Itsuki Hiroshi" is an enka singer and is a very caring person. I listen to a variety of genres. Listening to "Kenshi Yonezu, Mr. Children, Aimyon, Yuming, etc." on YouTube makes me feel at ease and helps me get my housework done. 🐰💗
Yes, Yumiko and I may be into different genres of music, but we share the same hobby of listening to music. We're also interested in food and cooking. 🐰💗
Good morning.☺️✨ I went out to prepare for a neighborhood event. When a child is born, 🏮 we donate paper lanterns, and then we light up the Bon lanterns to celebrate. At night, the neighbors gather at the Jizo statue to pray. They also hand out sweets. There are fewer small children around now, but it looks like this event will continue for a little while longer. 🐰💗
Commonly called/Skyflower. Golden dewdrop
Native to/Tropical America
Native from/Mexico. South America
Symbolism/Good fortune. Prosperity
*Genus of about 30 species
*Erect to spreading, bushy shrub or small tree with ovate to obovate, rich green leaves, to 3in(7cm)long.
*Yellow fruirs will be able to seen with purple flowers.
*The plant is named by Italian botanist Castore Dutante after the 15th century.
*The epithet ‘erecta’ is Latin for “upright”.
Photographed 7/15 8:58am 2025
Posted 7/18(Friday) 12:20pm 2025