{Our Cereus Oxypetalum Night Blooming Orchid Cactus} 2013

by **Admin** Sun Sep 15, 2013 8:36 am

2013 2013 2013 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">On July 3 in the afternoon, it became evident that our Cereus Oxypetalum Night Blooming Orchid Cactus would open up that very night. Even though in HEAVY RAIN... Perfect for our 237th Independence Day celebration!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaXrdINQG70/UhJ0vP-yNiI/AAAAAAAATh4/Lhnlp8MseZ8/s1600/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaXrdINQG70/UhJ0vP-yNiI/AAAAAAAATh4/Lhnlp8MseZ8/s640/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+1.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This photo I took shortly after midnight in the wee hours of July 4th.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I had moved the entire plant inside our gazebo...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Looks lacy against the Vintage Woodworks ginger bread.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1oURHyxGlGk/UhJ1FpzLlaI/AAAAAAAATiA/P9tYsVMEdqk/s1600/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1oURHyxGlGk/UhJ1FpzLlaI/AAAAAAAATiA/P9tYsVMEdqk/s640/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+2.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can tell it is pitch dark outside, I used the ceiling lights in our gazebo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nUxDuCDzKJE/UhJ1ebs0MuI/AAAAAAAATiI/gpZX25UZp-M/s1600/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nUxDuCDzKJE/UhJ1ebs0MuI/AAAAAAAATiI/gpZX25UZp-M/s640/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+3.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There were a total of 6 blooms and they are full of rain drops from the torrential rains.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I put the storage container for our cushions on top of the round table in order to place this plant with its trailing blossoms on it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Again you can see the Vintage Woodworks ginger bread at the top.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WprkcQfvhBM/UhJ19_E4fCI/AAAAAAAATiQ/BcvzWjpWRuk/s1600/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WprkcQfvhBM/UhJ19_E4fCI/AAAAAAAATiQ/BcvzWjpWRuk/s640/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+4.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Husband Pieter took this photo at 1:45 PM (13:45 o'clock) in the rain.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Can you imagine that in ten hours time they do bud like that?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zt2HUxRbyXE/UhJ20cvIhlI/AAAAAAAATic/QKssJjLRv4g/s1600/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zt2HUxRbyXE/UhJ20cvIhlI/AAAAAAAATic/QKssJjLRv4g/s640/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is their usual pedestal so their full length can trail down.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In winter they are on the work bench inside our green house.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OLnga-SnK5I/UhJ3GabucWI/AAAAAAAATik/rqCEugM1Tz4/s1600/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OLnga-SnK5I/UhJ3GabucWI/AAAAAAAATik/rqCEugM1Tz4/s640/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Again, clad in rain drops and to the right you see our pond.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O0Y-5bUBc8Y/UhJ3TzOdvkI/AAAAAAAATis/7PX95HdbgSI/s1600/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O0Y-5bUBc8Y/UhJ3TzOdvkI/AAAAAAAATis/7PX95HdbgSI/s640/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+7.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This photo is taken at midnight, with flash outside... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It didn't look good so I decided to bring the entire pot inside.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can see all 6 blooms here.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Kfs7ietI6eY/UhJ3okOtl1I/AAAAAAAATi0/nltgUFk9EFQ/s1600/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Kfs7ietI6eY/UhJ3okOtl1I/AAAAAAAATi0/nltgUFk9EFQ/s640/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+8.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This photo is a good one, from outside but more close.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o4offyaPC3s/UhJ4B-gFqtI/AAAAAAAATi8/yEKcd6Wlvk8/s1600/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o4offyaPC3s/UhJ4B-gFqtI/AAAAAAAATi8/yEKcd6Wlvk8/s640/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+9.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Again, now inside our gazebo, after I placed the pot on the storage container on top of the table.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Regardless of the rain, their fragrance was still like perfume in the still midnight air.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qWdyReT5Niw/UhJ4kUjAWJI/AAAAAAAATjE/bumVfuGzZio/s1600/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qWdyReT5Niw/UhJ4kUjAWJI/AAAAAAAATjE/bumVfuGzZio/s640/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+10.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> This is a last picture, showing the two top blooms full of tears from heaven...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hope you did enjoy them!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Related links:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9fk6tdo3l0&feature=share&list=UUWNYi-2ei2B0iHg9rajrtgg" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">Night Blooming Cereus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum)</span></a> | Youtube video from this night<br /><a href="http://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2012/10/bonus-our-epiphyllum-oxypetalum-re.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">{BONUS - Our Epiphyllum oxypetalum re-bloomed!}</span></a> | previous post by me<br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><a href="http://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2012/09/night-blooming-cereus-epiphyllum.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">{Night Blooming Cereus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) Orchid Cactus}</span></a> </span>| previous post by me<br /><a href="http://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2012/09/epiphyllum-oxypetalum-buds-opening-in.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">{Epiphyllum oxypetalum buds opening in the evening}</span></a> | previous post by me<br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><a href="http://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2012/09/look-how-our-epiphyllum-oxypetalum-buds.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">{LOOK how our Epiphyllum oxypetalum buds in only 6 days till THE afternoon...}</span></a> </span>| previous post by me<br /><br /></div><center><a href="https://plus.google.com/100490423051043047646/about" rel="author" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">Mariette on Google+</span></a></center></div><br> 2013 2013 2013 <br><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">On July 3 in the afternoon, it became evident that our Cereus Oxypetalum Night Blooming Orchid Cactus would open up that very night. Even though in HEAVY RAIN... Perfect for our 237th Independence Day celebration!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaXrdINQG70/UhJ0vP-yNiI/AAAAAAAATh4/Lhnlp8MseZ8/s1600/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaXrdINQG70/UhJ0vP-yNiI/AAAAAAAATh4/Lhnlp8MseZ8/s640/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+1.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This photo I took shortly after midnight in the wee hours of July 4th.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I had moved the entire plant inside our gazebo...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Looks lacy against the Vintage Woodworks ginger bread.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1oURHyxGlGk/UhJ1FpzLlaI/AAAAAAAATiA/P9tYsVMEdqk/s1600/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1oURHyxGlGk/UhJ1FpzLlaI/AAAAAAAATiA/P9tYsVMEdqk/s640/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+2.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can tell it is pitch dark outside, I used the ceiling lights in our gazebo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nUxDuCDzKJE/UhJ1ebs0MuI/AAAAAAAATiI/gpZX25UZp-M/s1600/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nUxDuCDzKJE/UhJ1ebs0MuI/AAAAAAAATiI/gpZX25UZp-M/s640/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+3.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There were a total of 6 blooms and they are full of rain drops from the torrential rains.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I put the storage container for our cushions on top of the round table in order to place this plant with its trailing blossoms on it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Again you can see the Vintage Woodworks ginger bread at the top.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WprkcQfvhBM/UhJ19_E4fCI/AAAAAAAATiQ/BcvzWjpWRuk/s1600/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WprkcQfvhBM/UhJ19_E4fCI/AAAAAAAATiQ/BcvzWjpWRuk/s640/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+4.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Husband Pieter took this photo at 1:45 PM (13:45 o'clock) in the rain.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Can you imagine that in ten hours time they do bud like that?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zt2HUxRbyXE/UhJ20cvIhlI/AAAAAAAATic/QKssJjLRv4g/s1600/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zt2HUxRbyXE/UhJ20cvIhlI/AAAAAAAATic/QKssJjLRv4g/s640/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is their usual pedestal so their full length can trail down.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In winter they are on the work bench inside our green house.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OLnga-SnK5I/UhJ3GabucWI/AAAAAAAATik/rqCEugM1Tz4/s1600/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OLnga-SnK5I/UhJ3GabucWI/AAAAAAAATik/rqCEugM1Tz4/s640/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Again, clad in rain drops and to the right you see our pond.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O0Y-5bUBc8Y/UhJ3TzOdvkI/AAAAAAAATis/7PX95HdbgSI/s1600/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O0Y-5bUBc8Y/UhJ3TzOdvkI/AAAAAAAATis/7PX95HdbgSI/s640/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+7.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This photo is taken at midnight, with flash outside... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It didn't look good so I decided to bring the entire pot inside.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can see all 6 blooms here.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Kfs7ietI6eY/UhJ3okOtl1I/AAAAAAAATi0/nltgUFk9EFQ/s1600/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Kfs7ietI6eY/UhJ3okOtl1I/AAAAAAAATi0/nltgUFk9EFQ/s640/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+8.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This photo is a good one, from outside but more close.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o4offyaPC3s/UhJ4B-gFqtI/AAAAAAAATi8/yEKcd6Wlvk8/s1600/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o4offyaPC3s/UhJ4B-gFqtI/AAAAAAAATi8/yEKcd6Wlvk8/s640/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+9.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Again, now inside our gazebo, after I placed the pot on the storage container on top of the table.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Regardless of the rain, their fragrance was still like perfume in the still midnight air.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qWdyReT5Niw/UhJ4kUjAWJI/AAAAAAAATjE/bumVfuGzZio/s1600/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qWdyReT5Niw/UhJ4kUjAWJI/AAAAAAAATjE/bumVfuGzZio/s640/Cereus+Oxypetalum+Orchid+Cactus+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+10.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> This is a last picture, showing the two top blooms full of tears from heaven...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hope you did enjoy them!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Related links:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9fk6tdo3l0&feature=share&list=UUWNYi-2ei2B0iHg9rajrtgg" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">Night Blooming Cereus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum)</span></a> | Youtube video from this night<br /><a href="http://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2012/10/bonus-our-epiphyllum-oxypetalum-re.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">{BONUS - Our Epiphyllum oxypetalum re-bloomed!}</span></a> | previous post by me<br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><a href="http://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2012/09/night-blooming-cereus-epiphyllum.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">{Night Blooming Cereus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) Orchid Cactus}</span></a> </span>| previous post by me<br /><a href="http://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2012/09/epiphyllum-oxypetalum-buds-opening-in.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">{Epiphyllum oxypetalum buds opening in the evening}</span></a> | previous post by me<br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><a href="http://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2012/09/look-how-our-epiphyllum-oxypetalum-buds.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">{LOOK how our Epiphyllum oxypetalum buds in only 6 days till THE afternoon...}</span></a> </span>| previous post by me<br /><br /></div><center><a href="https://plus.google.com/100490423051043047646/about" rel="author" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">Mariette on Google+</span></a></center></div><br>2013 2013 2013 <br> <a href="http://www.matrixar.com/" title="Matrix ">المصفوفة : أجمل الخلفيات والصور</a>