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| Night blooming cereus |
I so love these flowers. They are so 'unearthly' (maybe ethereal is the right word). My mother-in-law always had them in Louisiana... and my brother and sister-in-law have them now.
We did have one for a few years, but lost it one cold winter here in North Texas. They not only look ethereal, but the aroma is beyond wonderful. Even our cats would gather round them when they bloomed and released their scent. And they bloom in the night and die by morning. Sad, but beautiful... (the other weird thing - maybe not weird, but notable - about this plant is that the plant itself is ugly, but it's blooms are beyond beautiful)
Our night bloomer never made more than a one or two blooms each year... (which we eagerly awaited) but my brother-in-law's plant in Houston makes as many as 15 on one bush in one night! Unbelievable!
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Found this on Pinterest... and loved it!
My little red headed grand daughter who is no longer little has her 19th birthday this week.
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| old Uncle Wiggily book |
That is truly a beautiful flower. I never read Uncle Wiggily when I was growing up. I was a Dick and Jane kid (and then later, Little Lulu comics). :-)
ReplyDeleteI wish you could smell the scent, DJan. It's heavenly... and I'm not into flowery scents as such.
DeleteThat night blooming cereus is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI do not remember Uncle Wiggly. I thought he might be Uncle Remus, but he's not. I checked.
No, Uncle Wiggily was a bunny rabbit gentleman and Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy was a close companion. The books were by Howard Garis and my older brother read them to me when I was little. I thought I had the book at some time as I remember reading the stories to my children, but apparently it has gotten lost over the years.
DeleteI remember that Cereus from my days in Key West. Awesome plant.
ReplyDeleteHow neat that your son found you a copy of your loved book. Have you tried to Google the owner?
It is an awesome plant, Patti. And no, I haven't tried to google the owner. If she was a child in 1932 and wrote her name she must have been born in 1922-1926? This would make her 94-98... and I can read 'Beverly' but not the last name.
DeleteI voted and delivered my ballot. I didn't get an "i voted" sticker though.
ReplyDeleteGreat, Olga! Ours are ready to go... just have to drop them off.
DeleteI've never seen that plant before, the blooms are gorgeous. I've not heard of Uncle Wiggily either, but sounds like fun. :)
ReplyDeleteTake care and stay well!
The plant is probably tropical and does better in the south... but it is unbelievably gorgeous. As for Uncle Wiggily, I don't know if he was terribly popular, but we loved him.
DeleteWhat a stunning bloom, I wonder if it's related to the Moon Flower ?
ReplyDeleteI'm not familiar with Uncle Wiggily, but now I'm curious, it looks sweet.
Hope you are keeping well dear friend.
Hugs,
Jo
It is stunning, isn't it? As far as related to the Moon flower, I don't know... but it does resemble it a bit. Uncle Wiggily Longears was an elderly rabbit gentleman who lived in a wood and had adventures with his animal friends.
Deletewhat a gorgeous bloom, so perfect and pure looking!! the hubs and i voted by mail, it was super easy. after completing our ballets, we dropped them off at a secure ballot box!!
ReplyDeleteHi Debbie! DH and I also voted by mail... and dropped them off at secure location.
DeleteYou had me at Uncle Wiggily! I found an Uncle Wiggily game some time back. I bought it because I remembered it as a child. My grandparents had given us our mother's game from when SHE was a child. My grandson saw it on a shelf when we went to the attic, so we brought it down to play. He loved the game. The strangest thing happened: I found an Uncle Wiggily book at the goodwill. He loved those little stories so much I bought a second book. That is how it came to be that the third generation fell in love with Uncle Wiggily.
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