Friday 18 December 2009

garden surprise

succulent blossom, melbournesucculent blossom, melbournesucculent blossom melbourneCan you believe this garden marvel? A small round green not overly pretty succulent plant that can produce such an enormous and utterly lovely white flower. That stem is about 12 cm in length! I've been watching it grow over the last week or so. This plant only blossoms about every 1-2 years so finding it in full bloom this morning just made my heart sing.

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  1. The flower's bigger than the plant!
    This reminds me of a night blooming cactus we used to have at a house we rented. The first time it flowered was such a lovely surprise :-)

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  2. well looking at these pics makes my heart sing too! i seem to have similar succulents to yours including this one. how i wish one of them would surprise me.
    recently a neighbour's aloe vera gave out the most incredible flower sort of like a foxglove.
    i kept staring at it over her wall.

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  3. that's spectacular. I love what succulents produce. It doesn't seem like it ought to be possible, but there it is. :)

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  4. It just seems amazing to me what plants like this can produce. Imagine the energy it is projecting in order to be able to grow a flower bigger than itself!

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  5. That thing is fantastic. Amazing. What a hoot. I'd be thrilled.

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  6. so pretty ! I love succulents as they are the wackiest plants - very unpredictable!

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  7. that flower is too good to be true! it's almost otherworldly!

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  8. super spectacular!! almost a spacecraft:)

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