Last night~finally...

Last night I finally managed to remember to see my Night Blooming Cereus open! This involved checking several times earlier in the night - and then, one last time after 11:00!

This is the 4th. bloom I've had this time but the first one I've remembered to catch just at the right time! This beautiful and unique flower only blooms out late at night and the blooms are over by morning! It's very disappointing to miscalculate the exact time it will bloom, and check the next day and see a withered bloom hanging there! :(

Wow! Fighting the mosquitoes and the possibility of spiders and snakes that I might stumble upon in this dark and remote corner of my back yard, were worth my trouble!


~Alli and I both did the earlier checking but she had gone home before this bloom finally opened! :( ~~ Ahh! But I got pictures! ;)

Look! Isn't it a beautiful flower! Here it is before opening and after it fully opened, late last night.



























I cut this bloom and and put it in water, and, so, enjoyed it late into the night and early morning hours, knowing it would be wilted by morning!

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I had one of these plants for years when we lived in Miami and I would spend nights up very late, waiting for these blooms! Mom loved them too and this was one of our things we shared! Being the night owls we both were this was just a fun thing for us to do! Sometimes there would be several blooms open at the same time - a spectacular sight to see!


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I have pictures of those earlier flowers, taken on some of those late nights long ago! I wanted to post them but haven't been able to locate them! I have a ton of pictures! (you live a long time you collect a lot of memories!)

~~I definitely need an *Organizer* around here!~~


This plant I have now is not the one I had all those years ago. My original one died the first year we were here. It was in a pot and I forgot to protect it from the cold.
I was so thrilled to find another one in a pot, several years later at a yard sale, and bought it . Fixed up 2 pots - one for mom and one for me! Mom and I were able to see some blooms again, several times together, in the years she had hers.

I remember my plant in Miami as having bigger blooms, so this may be a different variety. Still- it's beautiful and I'm so happy to have it! (especially so, with the memories it evokes of my mom and happy times we shared with these flowers!)

My blog friend Jamie Dawn recently wrote about these flowers. She visited a friend in California who has them! Go see her pictures!

And these she shows look bigger, too- more like my original ones!


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Oh!!

Alli and I DID see this neat spider and web on our treks into the back yard last night!
This web was stretched between the frame of the swing! Luckily we didn't decide to take a rest there! :)

How do they do that!!

Spider webs fascinate me!!





Oh!

Such wonders in our world!!




Love,
Junie