I bow to you

Definitely WW. Those 'night blooming Cereus' flowers are so beautiful. On par with lotus flowers. The Cereus are definitely tricky heheheh ..... can be easy to miss the flowering night for sure.

Time lapse photography provides a fantastic account of the flowering of Cereus. Really pretty indeed.

Hope this beautiful flower doesn't cause too much controversy. Its legal here and coming in handy during lockdown.

beautiful and largely unappreciated for it's looks!

i have a buddy who runs a hydro shop and his bulletin board is just people's photos they bring in...so its amazing fish tanks, awesome orchids and insane cannabis buds...some have remarkable coloring

Ha! What DC said. And as a former hippie from the sixties, I approve this message. :biggrin:

Today's blooms... my fernleaf peonies. I've wanted this plant since I was in my twenties... finally got it about five years ago.They're gorgeous, I have absolutely no idea why they're stupidly expensive, and I'm glad they were given to me by a friend or I still wouldn't have them. Blooms are about size of a man's palm.

Double Fernleaf Peony (Paeonia tenuifolia 'Rubra Plena')

http://www.orchidboard.com/community...y_Plena_1_.JPG

http://www.orchidboard.com/community...y_Plena_2_.JPG

http://www.orchidboard.com/community...y_Plena_3_.JPG

And here's my Itoh peony just starting to roll. It's a favorite. I bought it quite a number of years back... they were pricier then, and I remember getting a little quart pot with maybe three sprouts. Maybe $50? Now they're selling for $25 or so in some places. Go figure.

The bush...

http://www.orchidboard.com/community...um/Itoh_2_.JPG

Notice how yellow it is here when not fully opened...

http://www.orchidboard.com/community...09/Itoh_1_.jpg

And a couple of days later, picked and in da house...
http://www.orchidboard.com/community...um/Itoh_4_.JPG

And today, still a different color...

http://www.orchidboard.com/community...um/Itoh_3_.JPG

so in love with peonies(sp)...they are like little pompoms of joy

this is a sorrel (Jamaican hibiscus) so damn beautiful

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...5190974_4k.jpgSchom schom schom by J Solo, on Flickr

Gorgeous. Kind of weird rocky looking foliage though...

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I had a couple of them similar... called Tequila Sunrise. Beautiful flowers, had them for several years. They didn’t make the cut when moving stuff to basement last year... got too heavy for us. :(