How beautiful, Sharon.

Gorgeous!

Alexa

Ours bloomed earlier in the year - I don't think I took any pictures of them this year. Do they have a fragrance? Most night bloomers seem to have more fragrance, since they need to attract sometimes blind pollenators, I think. I have night blooming jasmine in the back yard, and it competes with the citrus blossoms for fragrance, although none of the flowers are showy.

I like all kinds of cactus flowers.

Lars

Aren't those gorgeous! I keep seeing this night blooming weed along the roadside but have yet to catch one open when I have a camera with me. They open to a large white trumpet shaped bloom. The vine-type plant seems to just sprawl on the ground. The leaves are a dusty gray-green. I'll try to pay more attention in the next few days and capture an open bloom. Anyone know what these are?

Barnmom, I think they are what is called Moonflowers, a datura species.

Here is a link that you can check out to see if this is the weed you have seen.

Here is a link that might be useful: Moonflower or Jimsonweed

Yep! Awful purdy for a weed!

And poisionous!
And there are several cultivated varieties of datura.....even more beautiful and just as poisionous!

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:1470646}}

Just beautiful--

Sharon, we used to have a 'Night Blooming Cereus' and not only was it almost as beautiful as yours, but the scent was unbelievabley heady. I used to stand there and inhale as long as I could!

Barnmom I love that datura.

Here is a link that might be useful: Google images night blooming cereus

Here's {{gwi:1470647}} looked like before we trimmed it. It hasn't grown back to that size, however.

Lars

Barnmom it does look like what you have there is Jimsonweed.

Jessy we used to have that night blooming cereus in our garden - it's also called Queen of the Night - until someone accidentally pulled it out as it's quite an ugly creeping snake-like cactus. Whoever did that didn't realize that it produces the most wonderful flowers at night. Yes and the perfume was wonderful. I want to get another one.
I used to put a chair beside an opening flower and sit and watch it open as it grew dark!

Lars - that's one beautiful pink datura you have there! We also have a peach one we keep as a small bush in our back yard...

And we have at least two white daturas in our front garden. They put out shoots so rapidly that if we didn't dig them out, we'd have them growing all over. I love the perfume too...it's quite intoxicating.

But the heaviest night perfume comes from the Dama de Noche - Cestrum Nocturnum...
{{gwi:1470654}} - another poisonous bush of the nightshade family, here seen one night in our back garden.
That and the scent of white jasmine - jasminum officinalis - not the pink-tipped Chinese jasmine, which I find too peppery - remind me of Mediterranean nights in Palma de Mallorca where jasmine and cestrum scented the air. When I moved to Tenerife I bought both those bushes for our garden so we could still experience those perfumed evenings.

SharonCb

Barnmom - something just as strange and wonderful is a Snail Vine:

colo lady - that is an amazing image! How surreal! Actually you have all posted wonderful photos.

Here is a link that might be useful: Dandelion Recipe