HGTV showcases night blooming cereus, including growing tips and how to get a night blooming cereus to bloom.
Today's article is a fun exploration of Myers-Briggs® and how (I think) the 16 personality types would show up if they were flowers. I have several email subscribers who are florists and gave me this idea, so thank you to them for sparking this fun concept! I have to admit that at first I had
Finally on August 6, we got to see our: Night Blooming Cereus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) Orchid Cactus in full bloom around midnight! It was worth it for staying around and making these photos of a flower so exotic and spectacular. Above all, its fragrance is heavenly! My husband Pieter also did get to see its flowers, later in the night when he woke up. Both of us are so glad we got to see this. Taking photos in the dark is not easy. I had a flashlight for pointing at the blossoms but I did shoot some images for sharing with you. Below this post you also find the link to YouTube where I put more photos as a video presentation. Don't you think this flower is exotic looking? The heavenly fragrance is out of this world...! Below this post I also placed a link where you can order this plant. A very nice view inside this huge flower. And yes, it is a pure white one! Here you can partly see three of those beauties. Just wondering which insects will visit this flower during the night. It is obvious that some have been inside as there is pollen spilled on the lower petals... It was almost a pity for going to bed that night.. because in the morning the flowers are closed up again! With my flashlight I aimed at the flowers and I had to squat down for capturing them... Sideways and here you still see the pink outer petals. Very nice detail of the center of this Orchid Cactus. All FIVE of them... So what do you think of this exotic Orchid Cactus? Too bad that it opens up around midnight and closes again by morning... Related links: Night Blooming Cereus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) Orchid Cactus Full Bloom Around Midnight | My Photos on YouTube Night Blooming Cereus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) 2 | short YouTube video by me made during thunder... Night Blooming Cereus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) | Logee's Plants for Home & Garden {Epiphyllum oxypetalum buds opening in the evening} | previous post by me {LOOK how our Epiphyllum oxypetalum buds in only 6 days till THE afternoon...} | previous post by me
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Botanical Name: Selenicereus grandiflorus, Cactus grandiflorus. Other Common Names: Queen of the night, sweet-scented cactus, large-flowered cactus, vanilla cactus, large blooming cereus, large-flowered torch thistle, lunar flower, organillo. Habitat: Night blooming cereus is native to the desert and semi-desert regions of the Antilles, tropical America, Mexico, and the southern United States. Plant Description: Night blooming cereus is a climbing cactus with vining, cylindrical stems. Selenicereus grandiflorus is usually a “functional epiphyte”; meaning the plant can thrive either as an epiphyte or a terrestrial plant. An epiphyte is a plant that grows on another plant for mechanical structure but not for
Night blooming cereus is a very unique plant that's not well suited to every growing zone. Their beautiful blooms make them highly sought after by many gardeners. In this article, recreational gardener Jason White walks through each step you'll need to take in order to plant, grow, and care for night blooming cereus.
Night Blooming Cereus - Queen of the night Beautiful night blooming cereus starter plants. All have roots and are ready to go. These are amazingly beautiful flowers that bloom at night! Feel free to send me a message. Shipping from Austin, TX USPS First Class shipping
I'm sharing epiphyllum oxypetalum care tips, including how to help this stunning night-blooming plant thrive and flower as a houseplant!
Night blooming cereus is a very unique plant that's not well suited to every growing zone. Their beautiful blooms make them highly sought after by many gardeners. In this article, recreational gardener Jason White walks through each step you'll need to take in order to plant, grow, and care for night blooming cereus.
I'm sharing epiphyllum oxypetalum care tips, including how to help this stunning night-blooming plant thrive and flower as a houseplant!
Belle de Nuit, Lady of the Night, Queen of the Night, Night blooming Cereus - powerfully fragrant at night! This special cactus grows in tropical rainforests and has large wide meaty leaves. The flower is huge, white, and nocturnal. Blooms at night hours, hence the name. One of the most exotic indoor plants. Recommended Fertilizer: SUNSHINE Robusta - Rapid Growth Booster Buy together promotion: 6418 SUNSHINE Pikake - Fragrant Flower Booster, 16 oz, fertilizer... more SUNSHINE Pikake - Fragrant Flower Booster, 16 oz, fertilizer SUNSHINE Pikake (NPK 2-2-4) - eco-friendly concentrated nutrition booster for fragrant flowers. Improves quantity and quality of flowers. Encourages profuse blooming. Increases flower fragrance intensity. Can be used with every watering. For best results, use in combination with Sunshine Honey and Sunshine Superfood plant supplements. Scientifically-balanced stable formula is organic Amino-acid based and has NO EDTA chelators to eliminate nutrients lockup; it does not affect crop taste. Organic Amino acids greatly enhance stability of all Sunshine boosters and provide excellent absorption of trace elements. Pollinating insects friendly. DIRECTIONS: Mix 25 ml with 1 gal of water. Can be used with every watering, year around. Compatible with other Sunshine Boosters. Do not mix with other concentrated fertilizers. Element Content: N, P2O5, K2O, Ca, Mg, S, Fe, Mn, Mg, B, Zn, Cu, Mo, Co. Fertilizer license # F002866. For more information, download Sunshine Combo Boosters guide (2 pages) and see website SunshineBoosters.com. Close 500 ml (16 oz) $14.95 $9.95 Add to cart
This plant can be grown as a houseplant, but prefers a trip outdoors for the summer months. Place the container under a shade tree where it gets filtered light, but not direct sunlight in the afternoon. As for all members of the Orchid Cactus family, a period of dryness and cool nighttime temperatures in the winter ensures summer bloom. Night Blooming Cereus blooms in waves during the summer months, with sometimes as many as 10 flowers open at once. Night Blooming Cereus prefers Partial sun, an eastern or western exposure. Maintain indoor temperatures above 35. In winter, grow in an area that has night temperatures below 60 and above 32 on a consistent basis. Bring the soil to a state of visual dryness between watering. When watering, thoroughly saturate the soil until a little water runs out of the bottom of the pot. They prefer more moisture in the summer. 📬 Once an item has shipped, it's out of my hands! PLEASE, MAKE SURE YOUR ADDRESS IS CORRECT! 🏠 I am not responsible for lost or stolen orders. We will not refund orders that are LOST or MISDELIEVERED, including orders that had an incorrect address.
Night blooming cereus are cacti with flowers that open and are fragrant at night. Learn how to grow 10 popular types from your home or garden.
Night blooming cereus is a very unique plant that's not well suited to every growing zone. Their beautiful blooms make them highly sought after by many gardeners. In this article, recreational gardener Jason White walks through each step you'll need to take in order to plant, grow, and care for night blooming cereus.
- Sourced from professional farmers and growers by Easy to Grow, an American company. - Includes: 1 rooted plant in a 3-4" deep growers pot. Any accessories, decorative pots, etc. that may be shown to showcase the product are not included. Fragrant Epiphyllum Orchid Cactus For Sale ' Queen of the Night We love plants that stray from the norm, and the extraordinary Epiphyllum Oxypetalum is about as far outside the box as they come! This Orchid Cactus has several names that allude to its "dark side," including Queen of the Night, Night Blooming Cereus, and Lady of the Night. The glistening white, 8-10" blooms open in the late evening, releasing an exquisite perfume until they finally close at dawn. Sure, they only last one night, but if you treat them well, these plants will produce up to a dozen blooms at a time, with several flushes throughout the summer! Now, don't let the drama of this Orchid Cactus fool you because they're actually one of the easiest and most forgiving plants to grow. Grow them outdoors in the ground or indoors in containers - you can even tie the long, wavy, flattened stems to a lattice to train vertical growth or encourage branching. These night bloomers make memorable gifts for gardeners, "brown thumbed" friends, or yourself! Easy to Grow Features: * Zone: 10-11 or Indoors * Height: 36-42 in. * Spacing: 12 in. * Sunlight: Partial Sun; Bright Direct to Bright Indirect Indoors * Water: Moderate to Low * Flowering Time: Summer * Flower Color: White
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Selenicereus grandiflorus is a member of the cactus family and is a vigorous vining plant. For one night each year, its exquisitely scented flower opens as night falls, then closes forever with the first rays of the morning sun. The genus, Selenicereus, is derived from Selene, the Greek moon goddess, and cereus, meaning "candle" in Latin. Grandiflorus is Latin for "large-flowered." The term "night blooming cereus" or "Queen of the Night" is often used for this night blooming cactus. This flower was new to me until a few years ago, but it was grown at the Royal Gardens at Hampton Court Palace before 1700. (The garden itself goes back to the 1530's, when Henry VIII had it made because he wanted to outdo the French king's garden at Fontainebleau, so you know it had to be extremely elaborate.) Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist whose system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms is still in use today, described the flower in 1753. Finally, Johann Jacob Haid (1704-1767), a German engraver, made this botanical illustration of the night blooming cereus. The plant usually begins to set flower buds in June. For some reason, this year mine started blooming on May 21. As you will see, the plant has wrapped itself around a palm tree in my yard. It grows very quickly, splits off into many separate vines, and continues on an upward path toward the top of the tree. For three hundred and sixty-four days, the vines are not only gangly, but also their snake-like appearance is somewhat sinister. Then, when it blooms, it takes your breath away. The transformation makes me think of a very, very ugly duckling turning into a majestic swan. These buds are ready to bloom tonight. These are the same blooms, and they have begun to open, but they are not yet fully opened. These are the same blooms later in the evening. They are the first blooms on the first day that the cactus has bloomed this year. A fuzzy bud appears along the edge of one of the many snake-like vines. You need to watch it daily to gauge when it will bloom. You don't want to miss the flowering display, because each bloom only lasts for that one night. By sunrise the flower is spent. The day of blooming, the bud will begin to open about 9 or 10 pm. Once they're ready to open, they do so in dramatic fashion, literally before your eyes -- you can see the movement. This is a single bud, and it is still the first day of blooming. The bud has partially opened, but it is not yet in full bloom. The single bud is now in full bloom. You can see why they call it "Queen of the Night." The same bloom as viewed from the side Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, but I wish these flowers could stay around for a little longer. The bloom is spent, and it's just a matter of time until the shriveled bud falls off the vine. The size and shape of the blooms is outstanding. The flowers are sturdy and magnolia-like, and once fully open, they will tolerate light for moderate periods without wilting. Even the glare of a floodlight for a few minutes at a time will not harm the show. But the petals collapse quickly at dawn, and will not reopen. If you live in the frost-free areas of Florida, you can grow night-blooming cereus as an outdoor ornamental. They can be trained along fences or up trellises, or they may be planted at the base of a palm tree and left to their own devices to grow upward and twist around the tree as mine has. After the second day of blooming, there were no blooms for four days. Then, on Day Seven, the buds were ready to put on a show, and the blooms have been the most plentiful. If you have a night blooming cereus, consider hosting a late night party for when it is in bloom. Your friends will be amazed. The only tricky part is figuring out exactly when the most buds will bloom. After obseving the way the cactus blooms from year to year, I can recognize when they are ready to bloom, but only in the daytime for that evening's bloom. Strands on the tip of the bloom get a little awry, and maybe I’m imagining it, or maybe the tips move in the wind, but it seems to me that the strands are “twitching” in preparation for the big show. So your friends have to be on call for a same-day notice. Day Seven, and these buds are clustered rather high in the tree. Blooms up and down the tree on Day Seven A high cluster of blooms A bud ready to open on Day Seven The single bud opened beautifully on Day Seven This bloom is enough to take your breath away. The bloom as seen from a side view Three buds on Day Seven Three blooms on Day Seven, the best day yet, and probably the best day this season Today is Day Eight, and there are fewer buds today. It is Day Eight, May 28, and although the number of blooms is diminishing, their beauty isn't. A side view of this exquisite flower It is Day Twelve, and the flowers are still blooming, but becoming fewer with each passing day. Becky and the blooms, rendered as an oil painting. On Day Thirteen and Fourteen, there were no blooms. But on Day 15, June 5, a few blossoms appeared. The three buds on Day Fifteen are clustered together and appear to be very strong. The three buds in bloom Two blooms on Day Fifteen are still flourishing. One of the blooms The other bloom If you have been inspired to grow this plant yourself, ask for a cutting from someone who has a plant. They root very easily. Take a section of stem and allow it to callous over before planting it. Put it in sandy potting soil or cactus mix and moisten it. It should be rooted in three to six weeks. It may be two or three years before it begins blooming, but the wait is worth it. There are also mail order companies which can supply you with this plant, or one that is another kind of night blooming cereus, epiphyllum oxypetalum. This latter plant has very similar flowers, but doesn't have the same climbing vine stem. If you keep a plant like mine in a pot, you will have to stake it or provide a trellis so that it will have support to cling to. If you plant it outdoors, and you are in an area of the country that is frost-free, it can cling to a fence, a trellis, or a tree. If it is potted, keep in mind that the plant needs sun, but not full sun all day, and you need to protect it from the cold. I have given cuttings to friends, and they have had no problem growing the plant. So far, although the plant has bloomed for them, they fail to witness the bloom because it comes and goes so fast, and they haven't paid close enough attention to it. Ah well, there's always next year. The last bud on June 8, Day Eighteen, of the blooming cycle of the night blooming cereus On June 8, the night blooming cereus, Queen of the Night, bloomed for the last time this year. It's been great fun taking photos of the blooms, both day and night, for the last eighteen days. I took many more photos of the plant than I've shown you here, but I tried to show different configurations and aspects of the buds and blooms without being repetitious. It's now time to say, "Au revoir" to the night blooming cereus--til we meet again next year.
Night blooming cereus is a very unique plant that's not well suited to every growing zone. Their beautiful blooms make them highly sought after by many gardeners. In this article, recreational gardener Jason White walks through each step you'll need to take in order to plant, grow, and care for night blooming cereus.
I'm sharing epiphyllum oxypetalum care tips, including how to help this stunning night-blooming plant thrive and flower as a houseplant!
I'm sharing epiphyllum oxypetalum care tips, including how to help this stunning night-blooming plant thrive and flower as a houseplant!
The Queen of the Night Flower, also known as the Night-Blooming Cereus, is a truly enchanting botanical marvel that captivates anyone lucky enough to witness
Epiphyllum oxypetalum (Queen of the Night) is a profusely branched epiphytic cactus with a cylindrical, woody at the base, erect or semi ...
HGTV showcases night blooming cereus, including growing tips and how to get a night blooming cereus to bloom.
Cactaceae Selenicereus grandiflorus
Pure white flowers, the size of a dinner plate, open as soon as the sun goes down and stay open all night, then close in the morning. This wondrous sight is also a heady experience because of the intoxicating fragrance. Night Blooming Cereus blooms in waves during the summer months, with sometimes as many as 15 flowers open at once. Nature's ability to manifest such a magnificent creation leaves us in awe of this wonderful epiphyllum. As for all members of the Orchid Cactus family, a period of dryness and cool nighttime temperatures in the winter ensures summer bloom.
I have always been fascinated by plant life. It is one of the things that drew me to floral design. Who wouldn’t want to play with flowers all day soaking up all that beauty? Every Monday, I would like to share some plants and flowers that I find mesmerizing. Enjoy! Selenicereus Grandiflorus, also know as "Queen of the Night" and "Vanilla Cactus" is a night-blooming cereus in the cactus family. There are other hybrids that go by the same name, but Selenicereus Grandiflorus is the true species and the most unusual. Native to Central America, their blooms can be from 5"-12" in diameter. They bloom after sunset and the flowers only last for one night. They are said to have an intensely sweet vanilla scent. I hope to be lucky enough to see one in bloom in person. Botanical drawing by Johann Jacob Haid Like many night blooming flowers, they are pollinated by bats. Just lovely Selene means "moon" in latin and is lunar goddess in Greek mythology. It also is said to mean "transient beauty".
Night-blooming cereus bloom only at night. The flowers only last a few, brief hours. The most common variety is quite large, so make sure you have enough space for this special plant.
Night blooming cereus from cuttings is faster and easier than trying to start new plants from seed. In this article, we'll give you a few tips on how to propagate a night blooming cereus for the best
Botanical Name: Selenicereus grandiflorus, Cactus grandiflorus. Other Common Names: Queen of the night, sweet-scented cactus, large-flowered cactus, vanilla cactus, large blooming cereus, large-flowered torch thistle, lunar flower, organillo. Habitat: Night blooming cereus is native to the desert and semi-desert regions of the Antilles, tropical America, Mexico, and the southern United States. Plant Description: Night blooming cereus is a climbing cactus with vining, cylindrical stems. Selenicereus grandiflorus is usually a “functional epiphyte”; meaning the plant can thrive either as an epiphyte or a terrestrial plant. An epiphyte is a plant that grows on another plant for mechanical structure but not for
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HGTV showcases night blooming cereus, including growing tips and how to get a night blooming cereus to bloom.
The Night Blooming Cereus is a wonderful, mysteriously elegant desert plant. Lady Cereus, also goes by the names of Queen of the Night, Orchid Cactus, Christ in Manger
