It didn't do very well, in spite of fertilizer and plenty of water, and grew one scraggly vine up the trellis with very few leaves, let alone signs of blooming.
I kept looking for buds. Nothing. Then one day two big buds appeared that had not been there when I watered it the day before. By late the same afternoon ...
the biggest bud began to unfurl in the
brightest white ruffles.
Within a couple hours ...
as the sun was setting, the blossom had opened to nearly the size of my hand.
By the dawn the next day, the flower had shriveled and died, and there were seven more buds! One of them opened the very next night. We've have a little break now, but the rest should be opening on the next few nights. And ... it's the full moon! Maybe I'll get a shot like Gram's if I'm lucky!
If I do, I'll be OVER THE MOON! (Sorry, I couldn't stop myself.)
Never heard of moon flower before. The flower looks a bit like 'morning glory'.
ReplyDeleteI can well imagine you will be over the moon. We had success with Moon Flower one year but the whole plant died the next!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, it does look like a large Morning Glory.
ReplyDeleteWow, that's a beautiful flower! I guess your patience paid off. I'm not familiar with a Moon Flower. Wonder if it's just a coincidence that it bloomed during the full moon?
ReplyDeleteI'm the labourer and garden beer sampler, so I know nothing about plants; but that's a lovely flower! On top of that, you're feeling good about it, not just because it looks great, but also because you helped create it. Maybe I should start thinking about gardening a bit more; mind you, I thought about it yesterday...
ReplyDeleteYou set yourself up for that one. I hope you do get the blooms.
ReplyDeleteSo nice to follow the opeing of the blossom, nice they do it one by one for you!
ReplyDeleteThey are lovely. Strange to have an evening bloom cycle because what insect does the pollinating?
ReplyDeleteVery pretty, not a plant I have come across before. I love the idea of each flowers opening one by one.
ReplyDeleteMoonflowers!!!!! You did it!!!!! It's as much fun to see yours as it was to do mine. They are pollinated by night-flying moths. I'm so glad you tried them. Can't wait to see your moon shot! Worth the wait, right?
ReplyDeleteI love these flowers and your moonflower vine is just gorgeous! I have several that are open tonight. I just love them.
ReplyDeleteThey are beautiful especially in the Moonlight, the blooms are just awesome:)
ReplyDeleteNow that is an amazing flower which I've never see before. A very small look alike version of it appears along rural words here in August in Bluff Country but I doubt they're related cause it a daytime bloomer...:)
ReplyDeleteThat is an impressive flower indeed, well done you for persevering all the way to the moon and back!
ReplyDeleteHappy days.
Wren x