My friend gave me this Night-blooming Cereus plant several years ago.  It was just a cutting, stuck in a pot then.  

 

Cereus are members of the cactus family, and not native here.  As you can see, the plant is a little gangly, not real pretty.  This picture is two years old.  Since then, it has lived outside summers and falls, and over-wintered in the basement.  It's a lot worse looking now.  But I've kept it alive because I knew what was coming...eventually. 

 

Well, this year it set 3 flower buds, and last night at 10 o'clock 2 of them BLOOMED!!!  Each flower was about 9 inches across!!!    I think I took about 30 pictures, and this one is the best.  I wish you could have been here to see the real thing.

 

 

Magnificent!!!  Worth all the inside, outside, repotting, pruning, and waiting.  Each blossom only lasts one night, then it's  finished.  You really have to keep watching, so you don't miss the big event.  

 

There is one more blossom looking like she might open tonight.  So exciting!!!!

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!