I want to thank my friend Shari for letting me adopt this wonderful plant. Is this just exquisite? It is a night blooming cereus, which as the name says it only blooms at night. It starts to bloom around 9:00 pm and you can almost watch it open. By 11:00 or midnight the whole flower is open and has a heavenly smell. Of course the next step is to take a picture. First I had to get out a black cloth, which Shari loaned me, then pose the flower for best results, all the while hoping something horrible was not going to get me outside.
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I'm sure glad something horrible, like that huge spider you've become friendly with, didn't get you. Mother would have loved seeing this. They do put on quite a show.
Such a sensual flower, it spreads its petals wide and sighs loudly for one night. Oh, the bliss of pollination, we should be so luckly...
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