Oh yes! .... she's ready to bloom! Watch her late tonight. And don't forget to take a whiff. She smells divine! I wish someone would make perfume out of that scent! I'd buy it!

beckygardener said:Oh yes! .... she's ready to bloom! Watch her late tonight. And don't forget to take a whiff. She smells divine! I wish someone would make perfume out of that scent! I'd buy it!

Update. Nothing yet. I was up again last night until 3 am. It has to be soon because it is so big. It might be delayed because of the car ride.

These blooms can catch you napping. I have one with 24 blooms on, at least I did. I thought I had a couple of days to go and went out this morning and found nine had opened and died.
I hope to post pics tomorrow of tonights blooms.

Hope it happens tonite Cinta!

It will be fun if we can both post pics tomorrow. I will be up until about 3:30 am tonight I hope to get blooms.

Its 9pm and raining. I don't think these will look much different at 3.30am. Cinta, does it really take that long for the buds to open. I went out at 7.30 and they were just starting to open.
So I was under an umbrella below our deck in the rain. What I did not know until I looked at the pics was the effect the flash had on the raindrops. Those are not stars in the sky. Kind of an interesting effect.
So there are 15 blooms.

Mike - WOW! 15 blooms! THAT is AWESOME!!! With the rain, were you able to notice a scent?

Mike - WOW! 15 blooms! THAT is AWESOME!!! With the rain, were you able to notice a scent?

How many plants are there?

I found a bloomed out flower this morning. You snooze you lose....

So sorry to hear that Hetty!

Love the photos, Mike. Sure hope my little cuttings reward me like that someday!

That's one plant, probably 9 or 10 years old and, yes, there was a heavy scent up on the deck

Thanks, Mike! I wondered how big they get. I have several and have come to the conclusion that they grow like weeds and should be climbing epis! I often wondered just how long/tall they could get! That is amazing that yours is so large! Impressive. I cut mine back every year to keep their size smaller and they are still big plants!

Very impressive!
( thankfully I will have some years to figure it out, assuming mine lives and grows, but where in the ? am I going to keep it )

I almost cut mine back this year but did not want it to feel pain so I now have the branches suspended with ropes.

You should take a photo of that and share it here ....

One bud finally opened last night at 11:00 pm. This is a year old plant that I had purchased last Fall. So it is a small plant. It had had 4 buds this year. The first bloom I missed about a month ago. That will be a total of 4 blooms the first year.

I had it in my friends garage so I would not miss the blooms. I am home now so she is back in her normal home. Maybe the other two will bloom tonight.




and here is the back of the bloom

What a beauty!

Yay! So glad you got to actually see this one bloom! What did you think of the fragrance?

Simply beautiful, Mike and Cinta!

Congratulations!