Thanks 2 U All
Thanks to all for your informative knowledge. Stayed up late and finally caught these blooms. Night Blooming Cyrus... awesome!
Sure is beautiful...was worth the wait for you Thanks for sharing with us this delightful flower
3 months ago
Most folks have never seen this bloom. And there is no lighting to speak of when they are open. Very nice study. Well done!
3 months ago
Wow.. worth the wait! Outstanding!
3 months ago
Wow is right.
3 months ago
What fun to see a flower I've never seen before. Absolutely beautiful. You did an excellent job of capturing it.
3 months ago
This is wonderful....I have never seen a Cyrus and this is exceptional!!! Glad you stayed up for the pic's!!! Beautiful!
3 months ago
Absolutely worth the wait! Thanks so much sharing with us. Beautiful shots!
3 months ago
Lyn, these are beautiful photos. Thanks for sharing.
About 46 years ago my family moved from the country into a small city. We lived in a rented house for a couple of years, next door to an old lady that turned 100 while we lived there. She got a birthday greeting from President Kennedy. Her daughter lived with her. Back yard was fenced in with wooden fence, and it was full of plants. We called it the jungle.
After the 100 year old died Bernice, the daughter was alone. One night around 2 am she came to our door, rang the bell and knocked and woke us all up. We thought some catastrophe had happened. She wanted us to come to her garden as a night blooming plant, one that does not bloom often, was blooming. I thought she said it was a night blooming something, but whatever it was she said it goes years in between bloomings. I hope we acted appropriately amazed and shared her excitement.
A few years later the small dairy / milk bottling plant on our street bought our rented house, and the Bernice (aka jungle lady) house. Her beautiful garden became a parking lot. I do remember a lot of people coming to see her and she was giving away starts and plants. I hope she able to have a garden wherever she moved to.
Does a night blooming cyrus bloom yearly? Any thoughts on what kind of night blooming something goes several years in between blooms?
Mondami
About 46 years ago my family moved from the country into a small city. We lived in a rented house for a couple of years, next door to an old lady that turned 100 while we lived there. She got a birthday greeting from President Kennedy. Her daughter lived with her. Back yard was fenced in with wooden fence, and it was full of plants. We called it the jungle.
After the 100 year old died Bernice, the daughter was alone. One night around 2 am she came to our door, rang the bell and knocked and woke us all up. We thought some catastrophe had happened. She wanted us to come to her garden as a night blooming plant, one that does not bloom often, was blooming. I thought she said it was a night blooming something, but whatever it was she said it goes years in between bloomings. I hope we acted appropriately amazed and shared her excitement.
A few years later the small dairy / milk bottling plant on our street bought our rented house, and the Bernice (aka jungle lady) house. Her beautiful garden became a parking lot. I do remember a lot of people coming to see her and she was giving away starts and plants. I hope she able to have a garden wherever she moved to.
Does a night blooming cyrus bloom yearly? Any thoughts on what kind of night blooming something goes several years in between blooms?
Mondami
3 months ago
Mondami,
Thank you. I love these stories. I also live with my mom and she also has a lot of plants and the grandkids call it Nana's jungle. And she is also always giving away plants and cuttings. She says it's because her mom always told her that when you give them away you will always have a fruitful garden.
From the everyday plants to plants we have no idea what they are (this was one of them). We inherited this plant from our elderly neighbor, who had to be in an assisted living home a couple of years ago and it has always bloomed every year. I know because I always found the florets, in many different growing stages and the morning after wilted bloom. This is the first time I had ever seen the real thing.
I have a brown thumb so I just help my 82 year old mom, who can place a stick in the ground and it will flourish.
Thank you. I love these stories. I also live with my mom and she also has a lot of plants and the grandkids call it Nana's jungle. And she is also always giving away plants and cuttings. She says it's because her mom always told her that when you give them away you will always have a fruitful garden.
From the everyday plants to plants we have no idea what they are (this was one of them). We inherited this plant from our elderly neighbor, who had to be in an assisted living home a couple of years ago and it has always bloomed every year. I know because I always found the florets, in many different growing stages and the morning after wilted bloom. This is the first time I had ever seen the real thing.
I have a brown thumb so I just help my 82 year old mom, who can place a stick in the ground and it will flourish.
3 months ago
Hi Lyn. I love the stories I read on here too. Our neighbor's jungle was really beautiful and we liked peeking through the fence at it. Across the back of the yard was cyclone fencing, so we could walk down the alley and get a nice long look at it. We would hear someone in the garden singing quite often. Actually they probably both sang in the garden I suppose.
2 years ago I moved from the home I had lived in for 22 years. I had a lot of perennials and flowering bushes and roses. I dug up starts and potted them about mid march as I moved the end of march. Lived in a rental for a few months, and moved into my house the end of June in a heat wave. Waited until fall to plant my transplants. None of the roses (miniatures) wintered over in the pots, but most others did OK. My mother in laws peonies lived but have not bloomed yet. I think that is common. Same with the lilac. The poor little forsythia start was doing well.. then it was chopped down by a weed wacker. I moved it into a more established bed area, and my mower mowed over it. this spring it had some nice green growth, although it is very low to the ground. I had the lawn sprayed for weeds and specifically said to keep it away from the beds..and they sprayed it. I am just now starting to see a bit of new green. I would love to get a new start and probably can do so. The nice thing is that I know the husband of the the couple who bought the house. I used to work with his Mom and still see her about once a month. They want me to come over and see the changes they have made. I think I would be able to get starts from what used to be my plants if I want to.
Keep your photos coming.... they are awesome.
karen
2 years ago I moved from the home I had lived in for 22 years. I had a lot of perennials and flowering bushes and roses. I dug up starts and potted them about mid march as I moved the end of march. Lived in a rental for a few months, and moved into my house the end of June in a heat wave. Waited until fall to plant my transplants. None of the roses (miniatures) wintered over in the pots, but most others did OK. My mother in laws peonies lived but have not bloomed yet. I think that is common. Same with the lilac. The poor little forsythia start was doing well.. then it was chopped down by a weed wacker. I moved it into a more established bed area, and my mower mowed over it. this spring it had some nice green growth, although it is very low to the ground. I had the lawn sprayed for weeds and specifically said to keep it away from the beds..and they sprayed it. I am just now starting to see a bit of new green. I would love to get a new start and probably can do so. The nice thing is that I know the husband of the the couple who bought the house. I used to work with his Mom and still see her about once a month. They want me to come over and see the changes they have made. I think I would be able to get starts from what used to be my plants if I want to.
Keep your photos coming.... they are awesome.
karen
3 months ago
