Sunday, May 5, 2019

Night-blooming flowers

The yard across from where we were staying had fairly long grass for the first week or so and we walked past it a couple times a day as we walked to and from my sister's house and one evening i notices there were yellow flowers where there hadn't been any earlier in the day. This was about 6:45 in the evening:


Sadly, i didn't take any daytime flowers as there were none to be seen. Turns out they are Night-blooming Primroses and very pretty:


The purple wrinkly-looking surrounding flowery-stem is the bloom from the previous night as they only last one night. I had no idea ... the owner came and talk with us and didn't know anything about the plant and offered to let us dig some up and bring back with us but we decided not to. A day or two later she cut the grass but that didn't seem to brother the Primroses at all:

I don't know what time they fold away in the morning as i never got up and went out to look ... do you know when Night-blooming Primroses die in the morning?
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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 4, 2022 at 4:27 PM

    Hi Robert ... your are advising on a private blog and you live in a different country; please be respective of others posts that are not related to selling anything. Thank you.

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