My Night Blooming Cereus, which has suddenly grown up, is going to put on a hell of a show this year. Multiple blooms, surely!
It’s gotten so leggy I can’t move it to the middle of the room for a viewing party this year or the delicate flowers can fall off, which I assure you is tragic. No one can come over to see it anyway — unless I set up some ridiculous one-way walk-through with floor arrows and a :15 timer (which I just might do). BUT: the window. Hmm. There’s a spot by the hydrangea for people to view NBC’s glory from outside, like a creature in a zoo. I can open a different window and, with a fan, blow the scent all over the neighborhood; its smell is half the fun. I’ll do a time-lapse for ya if the reflective glass allows a decent recording.
You can see the first year here, with some background info.
(The sad part is that any COVID shopper will understand “floor arrows.”)

That’s crazy fun!
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*Dear Ann: You have caught the NBC bug!!! Do you actually have buds on it now? How many? My NBC bloomed this year, in late June, but nothing since. AND, since I will be moving to Kendal (CCRC) in mid-October, I don’t think I will be taking it with me. You want the grandmother of yours? xoxox Jeannie*
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The big giant one that was in your MIL apt.???
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A wee bit of novelty (novel coronavirus aside) in these monotonous times.
Carry on NBC!
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