Seven years ago , a friend gave me a potted hunk of leaf and told me that this would someday become a plant that had BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS.
You would NOT believe it by the look of the leaf or by the large stalk it sprouted with large ugly leaves hanging from it. Or the subsiquent stalks topped with large ugly leaves!
Did I mention that it would take SEVEN Years for said UGLY plant to BLOOM????
Well last year it bloomed, not once but twice which it is not known to do.This year the blooms came a month earlier. The first flower on July first and the second bud the next night. They start opening around 7pm, are fully open by 10pm and start to die around 4am.They are suposed to be very fragrent, I can't smell it and Christy (who gave me the plant) couldn't smell a thing. Wildman says it smells wonderful and can't believe I can't smell it!
Enoungh said... here are the pictures.
two buds
 front
side
back  closing up
bloom 2 .
I got smart a held up a dark cloth to keep out the distractions in the kitchen on the second bloom.
Have a great weekend everyone and thanks for looking!