Re: night blooming cereus

You want easy? Night blooming cereus can take some ridiculous abuse and still come out beautiful. I know. One of the WONDERFUL folks on this list sent me a cutting (which I now cannot remember because I lost the piece of paper on it). When it was mailed to me...they said, "let it root some more in water, then plant it". Well, I stuck it in a jar of water and promptly forgot about it. When I discovered it, the plant had been with NO water for I don't know HOW long. Short on time (as usual it seems) I put more water in there and thought to myself "now, I won't forget this time..and I'm going to plant that thing if it harelips the Pope". Well...you guessed it...I forgot about it. It dried out AGAIN. This time...I put it in a clay pot with some less than wonderful soil. By this time it's fall, and I'm doing my fall clean up and digging up my purple fountain grass etc. I put it on my garden bench in the garage..thinking I'll get to it. I forgot about it. When springtime rolled around...I found it. It had been knocked over by one of my cats...alllllll dried out...looking sad. *&@#!!!! I need to plant this before it dies!!! So I did. I put it on my back porch this summer. It has doubled in size. I'm sure that next year it might have a bloom on it. SOOOOOOOooooo, like I said...it can take abuse and still thrive. I did the same thing to my orchids (phals) and they are still going strong!

Jesse Rene' Bell
Claremore, OK
Zone 6


From: cathy carpenter <cathyc@rnet.com>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] night blooming cereus
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:19:45 -0500

Lynda, If you have some to spare, I'd love to have one.
Cathy
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 08:36 AM, Lynda Young wrote:


Not Marge - but I'll jump in here.  Bonnie, they're absurdly easy to
grow.  Pretty much just plant and water.  Mine is in almost full sun and
gets watered daily during the summer.  This is the fourth year I've had
it and, boy, did it perform this year.  I've had two blooming periods -
once near the beginning of July with about 50 blooms and the latest just
this week.  Monday night we had 35 blooms open and almost as many
Tuesday night.  I think they must enjoy being root bound - in previous
years we've had nowhere near as many blooms.  I overwinter it in a cool
greenhouse but that's going to be problematic this year because it's
gotten so large.  I'm going to have to cut it back drastically.  If you
would like  cuttings let me know and I'll be glad to send you some.

Lynda
Zone 7 - West TN

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of Bonnie Holmes
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 9:14 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: RE: [CHAT] night blooming cereus


Marge...absolutely beautiful...the pictures from various angles and
distances really show off the bloom's beauty.  Is it difficult to grow?

Bonnie Zone 6+ ETN





[Original Message]
From: Donna <justme@prairieinet.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Date: 08/26/2003 4:13:37 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] night blooming cereus

Awesome picture Marge... how long does the blooms last?

Donna



If you want to see.....go here:

http://www.mtalt.hort.net/cereus/night-bloom-cereus.html

How such a gangly awkward ugly duckling of a plant can produce such
a lovely flower is beyond me..and the scent is heavenly, too.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland

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