I am so excited!!!  

 

My Night-blooming Cereus is getting ready to bloom again this year.  This is a beautiful stage in itself, but when it blooms, it takes your breath away.  

 

Sharon gave me a cutting of her plant years ago, and it has been blooming for the past three years.  This is a good story:  Sharon got the plant from her grandmother, who brought it with her to Norfolk from Okracoke, NC, before Sharon was born in 1950.  So, her plant is over 70 years old.  

 

The plant itself isn't what you would describe as lovely, but the blossoms are so breathtaking that it doesn't even matter.  I am continually cutting mine back, and trying to contain it, because it lives in the basement all winter, and it takes up a lot of space if you don't cut it back.  

 

I will try to get another picture when it blooms, if I can stay up that late.  The bloom opens about 11 pm, and wilts by 4 am.  It looks like it might do it tonight.

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!