lord_whimsy ([info]lord_whimsy) wrote,
@ 2008-07-22 19:14:00
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DIRTY BUTTONS: EVENING GARDENS
Here is the latest installment of my ongoing gardening column, Dirty Buttons.

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[info]cap_scaleman
2008-07-23 04:15 pm UTC (link)
Since I haven't been around for a while this is the first time I get to know about the column. It belongs to the better news of this summer. :) Gardening for the win!

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[info]count_vronsky
2008-07-23 04:44 pm UTC (link)
Wow - beautiful essay Lord Whimsy!

My dad has a Night Blooming Cereus (aka Sirius, Queen of the night, or Reina de la noche) that opens once a year. It has the most intoxicating fragrance. It always feels like a bit of a miracle when that thing blooms.

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[info]lord_whimsy
2008-07-23 05:09 pm UTC (link)
Never seen one in person. Pictures?

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[info]count_vronsky
2008-07-24 10:47 pm UTC (link)
No photos Lord Whimsy, but here is what the plant looks like year round, and here are the blooms. They are very easy to grow from what I have heard, and your description, "many nocturnal flowering plants exploit the low light levels of evening, which gives their predominantly white and yellow blooms a preternatural glow," describes it beautifully.

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