Cosmos sulphureus/Cosmos. Asteraceae. Asterales. Magnoliopsida. Tracheophyta Commonly called/Sulfur cosmos. Orange cosmos Native to/Mexico. Central America. Northern South America Symbolism/Friendship. Creative energy. Peace & Harmony *All cosmos flowers are recognized as symbols of serenity and a harmonious balance between people and nature. *Genus of about 25 species of erect to spreading, freely branched annuals and perennials *Bushy, hairy-stemmed annual with 2-3 pinnatisect, mid-green leaves, to 7in(18cm)long. *Flowerheads, 1 1/2-2 1/2in(3.5-6cm)across *The flower Cosmos came from the Greek word ‘Kosmos’ meaning “order” , “arrangement”, “decoration” and “beauty”. Potographed 7/10 8:54am 2026 Posted 7/13(Monday) 11:48am 2026
Good mornevening, Yuming !🌅🌃 The orange cosmos look stunning against the green scenery.🧡💚🤗👌 In Japan🇯🇵, even though it's orange🧡, it's called "kibana cosmos/yellow-flower cosmos(黄花秋桜)".💛 I also happened to post picture of the same orange cosmos flower on GS today (7/14).📱🧡🌿😄🏟️ Hoitara-ne. 🌞✌️ ◾️p.s. Today 7/14 is "Sunflower Day" (Himawari no Hi) in Japan. 🇯🇵🌻 This day commemorates the 1977 launch of Japan's first geostationary meteorological satellite, "Himawari 1". The name "Himawari" (which translates to "sunflower" in English) was chosen because, like the flower that faces the sun, the satellite continuously faces the earth to monitor weather.🤔🤗🌞✌️
@ユミ Thank you for a message. This flower blooms in my friend’s garden. She called me “she is now blooming”. I visited to her house. It’s the best one, she said. 💕
@Yumiko (California U.S.A) SAMA✨ Thank Yuming for your messages !🤗 Sharing my bright orange flowers on GreenSnap today. 📱🧡🌿 Oni-chang posted some beautiful Marigolds in addition to Orange Cosmos !😄🌞👌💦 Thanks to the color orange, the Giants, whose team color is orange, won today ！⚾️🧡🏟️✌️ Hoitara-ne.👋👋👋
@ユミ Good morning! ☀️ You walk ~ with your friends . How nice! I like that. How long~? It’s good opportunity for you. Friendship is important. Nature is always waiting for you. 💕
@太陽の塔 Good morning! Thank you for a message. Yes! I saw your flower. Nice one! We live in the different countries but we can see the same flowers at the same time. I love this! 💕
@くさちゃん Good morning! Kusa chan. …I hope I want to go to Japan 🇯🇵. But~ 😔there is no way to go. I will stay my home 🏡 all the time. Good day together! 😊
Good morning! ☺️✨ Here are some *Cosmos sulphureus*—vibrant, vitamin-colored 🧡 blooms. I wonder if they're the same as the yellow cosmos? ❓️ They are blooming so beautifully. 🐰💗
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ Thank you for a message. Yellow Cosmos. I can still see them some here~ Everyday is coming. Keep being healthy. It’s getting hot. Enjoyable day! 😊
Yellow cosmos are blooming in my garden—maybe they match yours? 🧡💛 They sprouted from self-sown seeds. Their vibrant "vitamin colors" really give me a boost of energy. 🐰💗
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ Thank you for a message. At my friend’s garden. She called me. Everyday comes. How are you? Your blood pressure is now, ok! Blood pressure is “silent killer”we say in USA. Check a the time. One time~…my blood pressure suddenly 65-80, pulse shows 113. 🤔I went to see my Dr. He finally figured out. “Medical supplies” He controlled my daily prescription. He fixed my problem. Take care of yourself. ❤️🩹
Normal blood pressure readings are below 120/80 mmHg for measurements taken in the clinic and below 115/75 mmHg for home readings. On the other hand, the threshold for high blood pressure appears to be 140/90 mmHg or higher in the clinic and 135/85 mmHg or higher at home. So, does that mean your blood pressure is on the low side, Yumi? I suppose you'll be monitoring the situation for a while after getting a prescription from the doctor? 🍀 Take care! 🙏🏻
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ Ok. I got your numbers of blood pressure. 85/135, 90/140 were not bad but a little bit high. I have asked you before. Whether you have a medication for blood pressure? Yes or No? If it’s No, you need ask your doctor to have a medication. It’s normal. I have been taking one tiny medicine for 26 years everyday. *Diovan Check about this one and ask your doctor. This medication is #1 🇺🇸. Main thing is …insurance will work to get this medication. It’s not cheap but it can control our blood pressure perfectly. Or another medication ~ Depending the medication ~ it’s our age. Ask me~ later. Take care of yourself. You are fine now. Thinking of the future ~ 😊❤️🩹
I suppose my blood pressure is creeping up a bit due to my age. I’ve gained a little weight, too, so that might be one of the reasons. Also, I really need to make sure I walk more. I think I’ll keep an eye on things for a little while longer. 🐰♥️
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ I have got it. Take care of yourself. I will talk to you any kinds~ what to eat~ because I had tacking care of my husband for 5 years. 24/7. 365days. I am not a nurse, not a nutrition. But I can tell ~ what~ how to my husband. You are actually healthy lady. No worries so much. Keep have a healthy meals and sleep well! 😊
Yes, thank you so much! 😆💕✨ That's right—I think I'm healthy for now, but I try not to overeat or overdrink; stopping when I'm about 80% full seems to be the sweet spot for keeping in good shape. 🦆 If there's anything else I'm unsure about, could I ask you again? I'd really appreciate it! 🙇⤵️
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ Thank you for a message. You are welcome. I will answer you if I can. Life is such a kind of! 👍 Let’s go today and tomorrow! I will be with you. 💕
Good evening! 🌙 It was another hot day today. I finally managed to weed the garden beds this evening. When I’m busy tending to the roses 🌹 or watering the flowers, vegetables, trees, and fruit trees, weeding tends to get put off. It feels so refreshing to finally get it done, though. I also trimmed back the coneflowers (Echinacea) since their petals were starting to look a bit dull. ✂️ Wishing you a wonderful day tomorrow. Good night. 🐰❤
We had a sudden downpour today—the first in a while. Perhaps because of that, it feels cooler this evening. It’s a welcome rain; I’m grateful for it. I heard there was a magnitude 7 earthquake in Kumamoto. I hope the damage isn't too severe. 🍀
@Yumiko (California U.S.A) SAMA✨ Thank Yuming for your message.🤗👌 Oni-chang strongly agree with the following statement of yours.😄👎 "We live in the different countries but we can see the same flowers at the same time.🌏💕" Very nice ‼️👌 Let's connect in a world of dreams at the same time！✨🎠✨ Oni-chang love you in a tatami-bed.😣🌌🥰💖 Hoitara-ne. ♨️🧽🌞✌️💦
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ I know the news from NHK. Sorry for the people in Kumamoto. “Take care of yourself”. Can I tell you~ I had experienced the big earthquake when I was on Guam 🇬🇺. It was 8.2. I was a slight rain ☔️ day. I finished playing ⛳️ and was watching movies at the living room, 😲 Suddenly ~ 😵💫😵 All my glasses and stuff from the cabinet 🗄️ came out to the floor. It took only ~1 minutes. That’s it! Lost everything in the kitchen.
Sorry I forgot my point to tell you. Internet 🛜 says. The worst country in the world 🌎 of earthquake is …🇯🇵. Can you check? If it’s true ~ We keep going be healthy! 😊
"The largest earthquake ever recorded worldwide was the Chile earthquake (Valdivia earthquake) on May 22, 1960, which registered a magnitude (Mw) of 9.5. Meanwhile, the deadliest earthquake in terms of casualties was the Tangshan earthquake in China on July 28, 1976 (claiming approximately 240,000 lives). The massive tsunami generated by the Chile earthquake—which released about six times the energy of the earthquake that caused Japan's Great East Japan Earthquake—crossed the Pacific at speeds exceeding 700 km/h and caused significant damage even in Japan, on the other side of the globe." That’s what I found when I looked it up. Natural disasters tend to strike just when we’ve let our guard down. It sounds like you’ve had a frightening experience yourself, Yumi. 😰
@Yumiko (California U.S.A) SAMA✨ Thank Yuming for your message.😊 Oni-chang learned the following three things from flowers.🤔 ①The Cycle and Value of Life Discovering the connection of life as a tiny seed sprouts, blossoms, bears fruit, and returns to the soil.😄 ②Realizing that all life has a limit😇 and a role, even in the process of withering.💦 ③Wisdom to Live By The strong resilience and flexibility to reach for sunlight ☀️despite being unable to move. The natural mechanics of coexistence, leveraging insects🐝 and the wind🌬️ to sustain life.🤗👌
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ Thank you for a message. We will think of natural disasters. As I told, I had the worst experience. I thought I would die because of corruption. Main thing is~ preparing cash 💴 at home. (I have $8,000)at my house./hidden a place. Keep our fingers ! ✌️
That sounds like a truly terrifying experience. I used to think things like that only happened on TV. Money is a tricky thing—it’s a problem if you don’t have it, but having it brings its own kind of anxiety. 😰 It’s probably best not to keep too much cash in the house. 😨 You really have to watch out for burglars! ⚠️🍀
@Yumiko (California U.S.A) SAMA✨ Thank Yuming for your message !🤗👌 Enjoy life and understand nature by observing flowers！😄🧐🔍 At least plants are older living seniors than humans.🤔 Hoitara-ne.🌞✌️
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ That’s right. If the tragedies happened, our bank machine…do you think they still work ? No electricity ⚡️ even the building were destroyed. Bank account ~ is what? That’s I am telling you. Prepare Cash at home. 💕 now~ we are uncomfortable to hear of big earthquake in 🇯🇵. Take care of yourself. 💐I hope the people in Kumamoto Prefecture will be safe and go back normal life soon.
@太陽の塔 Thank you for a message. I watch your photos everyday. Nice ones. Enjoyable I do study~ at the library 📚. There are great books. I am happy. It’s cool~ and quiet/lovely. Have a nice meal ~ and have water. 😊😊
Given the safe neighborhood, keeping cash at home is fine, but I do worry about it when I go out. Plus, if a natural disaster were to strike, there’s no guarantee the money would be safe. I suppose it’s best to keep only the necessary amount on hand—especially since I can use PayPay or credit cards. The key is making sure not to overspend! 🐰❤
@Yumiko (California U.S.A) SAMA✨ Thank Yuming always for detailed and accurate descriptions of the flowers.🌺🌿😄🤗👌 Oh- kini. 🌞✌️ It's August starting today. I look forward to your continued support this month.🙇8888🐙🐙🐙🐙🤭💦 🎶In his octopus's garden In the shade 🎶🎸🥁🧔♂️
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ I understand what you said. Today, we depend on the credit card 💳 and, after that… bill is coming every month, right? That’s normal they say. My credit score is 825~832. Everyone who use credit cards have his(her)score. Credit companies like lower score customers and go for their business. This is the economy today. Anyway, you and your husband do not work at all. I understand that. You have your steady monthly income from the government, right. * nenkin? onkyu? (I have no idea 🤷♀️). We need to survive! You are smart enough to go for your life. 😊 We will have a good day! with smile
That’s right. I’m living exactly the same way I always have. I budget my monthly expenses and buy groceries and household supplies for the week; I try to make ends meet using my Employees' Pension so I don't have to dip into my savings. I’ll be receiving the Employees' Pension myself in a few years. I’m able to live this way because I’m healthy. My husband has actually started working a little bit recently, though—at the request of a friend. 😊
@太陽の塔 Thank you for a message. You motivate me!💕 I started to go to the library 📚 and I can have more books and know more about flowers. …I used to go to the City library everyday when I was junior high and high school time. At this time(summer break), I started studying at 9:00am 🕛 12:00. Lunch (30 minutes). I like to eat, Curry Udon, cold soba(mori soba). In those days there wasn’t any Pizza 🍕, Hotdogs…American food at the library. I got ¥500 from my mother every morning. Lunch ¥380~400. Snack ¥100. Till 5:00pm. I studied and studied ~. Like …it was my hobby. I liked studying. I came home after 5:00pm. My mother was preparing my dinner for 6:00pm. I ate dinner with 6:00 🕕 pm NHK NEWS. Everyday. After eating dinner, I went to my room. My room has a 🛋️ sofa, Bed and a desk. With all stereo set in the room(2~ 4 speakers). I was the last person to watch TV. My friends we’re talking about about Some on 📺 TV🙃. I had no idea. My friends said “Yumi doesn’t watch TV except NHK”. 😌that’s right. I was growing up like that. When I was a little girl, I watched TV. (1960s~) “Key Hunter”(1968), “Play girl”(1969), “GebaGeba 90 minutes”(1969)… While I was elementary period. With some reasons, I started running(100m)to go for the race in Tokyo & Japan. My life has been changed. No TV. Just read a novel~ Study and listen the music. I used to listen to FEN(Far East Network)on the radio all the time since 1971. That took TV away. …😅long talk~ we are the same age~ How was you when were 1960s~ ? You are such a smart guy. How you became smart? 😄
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ Thank you for a message. I understand that. You have a pension. It’s the great one. In 🇺🇸, the people who can get pension ~ $ 400~700/month forever. Still we have to pay tax for that/year. It’s good for your husband to work small job. with less risk. It’s like his hobby. Let him work~ 👍it’s good for him. It’s better staying at home all the time. You are keeping your house. Busy. 😊 Good day today and tomorrow!
That's right. Even though my husband and the dentist were in different departments at university, they’re still friends, and he gets his dental work done there too; so, it seems he helps out with whatever he can when the doctor asks. Since the work doesn't affect his Employees' Pension status, I suppose it works out well. 🐰❤
@Yumiko (California U.S.A) SAMA✨ Thank Yuming for such a wonderful story ! 🤗👌😢😭 Your mother is so kind and wonderful.😄👩🦰✌️ You could get lunch for just a 500-yen coin back then! 😳 That is half or a third of today's price.🤔🪙😁 Did you start watching only NHK ？📺☺️ When I was growing up in the 1960s, nothing topped the sports manga '巨人の星: Star of the Giants' and '明日のジョー: Tomorrow's Joe.' It was a world of pure sports grit.⚾️🥊💥🏟️🙌 If they broadcast it on TV today, it would cause a huge scandal; it’s so full of slurs that it would be bleep after bleep.「ピー」「ピー」📺💨🥵. Oh-kini.🌞✌️ So long.😴💤🌃👋
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ That’s the good way! Your husband will work at the Dentist to as a helper, and some. I like to hear that! He likes to go for that? New life strategy. lovely 😊
My husband decided to help out because he saw how troubled a friend was by a request they had made. He has always been the type to handle detailed tasks, home repairs, garden pruning, and the like; I think he is approaching this role as a dental assistant with a fresh mindset.🐰💗
@太陽の塔 Good morning! Thank you for a message. Yes. ¥500 to go to the library 📚. I spent ¥450 for lunch (I liked to have curry noodles ~ soba). And snack ¥50 at 3:00pm. I studied ~every weekend at the library. It’s quite! It was my lovely place. See~ today I go to the library ~. My friend has a Japanese channel at home. I stopped by her house, talk stories, watch the NHK news. I remembered both of them. We had a good time in those days. … I feel 🥺 a little stomachache now. I will take a rest from now. 🤞 Have a great day. It’s getting hot. Take care of yourself! 💕
@Yumiko (California U.S.A) SAMA✨ 【No reply】 Thank Yuming for your message.😊 "You can live your life crying, or you can live your life laughing. / Laugh and the world laughs with you."😄🤗 Yuming take things way too seriously. Just go with the flow and enjoy life ! 🤔😆🙌 Your stomach ache will go away if you do.🙆♀️🎊 And snack ¥50 at 3:00pm.🍟😋😁✌️
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ It’s nice! So~ your husband will start to work at the dentist as a dental assistant. Good! It’s better for him to stay home. It’s boring to him. You communicate well with him, because the first job ~ he is nervous. He will ho for~ 💕
It was probably a good thing that my husband's friend was able to help out. I’ve always relied on my dentist for immediate treatment whenever I had tooth trouble, so I’m happy to finally be able to put that experience to use; it’s allowed for communication and provided a refreshing bit of external stimulation. Tomorrow is just around the corner. 🐰💗
@Yumiko (California U.S.A) Yeah. I think I’ll probably just keep going like this. Since it’s not every day, a little bit of time here and there is probably good for me at my age. Thanks for all your hard work today! 🐰💗
@ﾃﾞｭﾗﾝｻ Thank you for a message. Being with our age, “take it easy”. (shizukani kangaeru)… I have been trying ~ while I am swimming for 75 minutes. Today is a good day~ We will make a happy day~tomorrow. 💕
@Yumiko (California U.S.A) Good morning! ☺️ Today marks the second day of my son, his wife, and my granddaughter staying with us. They plan to head back home later this morning, as there is a place they want to stop by on their way. The time we spent together, filled with lively conversation and laughter, flew by so quickly. I wonder if I’ll be able to drive over to visit them next time. 🐰♥️
@Yumiko (California U.S.A) SAMA✨ Thank Yuming for your message !😄 It's great that your bones have become stronger.🦴👌🙆♀️ Your bone density has improved, and your osteoporosis is gone. Oni-chang am so glad.🤗💪 Maido, Oh-kini.🙇🌞✌️
@太陽の塔 Thank you for a message. lovely I will tell you about miss “T&J”. Finally I changed my time to swim and do fast walking. Totally opposite and I do not see them at all. Still in case I see them ,I show my smile/silence. 👍 I am fine. * I usually swim 6:15am~7:30. I swim 7:00am after speed walk You can know~ 😌I feel fine, no their argument to my friends whom I have known for 4~9 years. 🙌 Thank you for listening to my stupid stories. This case is closed. 🙅♀️ We will have a good life without any kind of stress. Our happy life 😊😊
Commonly called/Sulfur cosmos. Orange cosmos
Native to/Mexico. Central America. Northern South America
Symbolism/Friendship. Creative energy. Peace & Harmony
*All cosmos flowers are recognized as symbols of serenity and a harmonious balance between people and nature.
*Genus of about 25 species of erect to spreading, freely branched annuals and perennials
*Bushy, hairy-stemmed annual with 2-3 pinnatisect, mid-green leaves, to 7in(18cm)long.
*Flowerheads, 1 1/2-2 1/2in(3.5-6cm)across
*The flower Cosmos came from the Greek word ‘Kosmos’ meaning “order” , “arrangement”,
“decoration” and “beauty”.
Potographed 7/10 8:54am 2026
Posted 7/13(Monday) 11:48am 2026