Night Orchid blooms

This is my mothers night orchid. Given to her by one of her late friends. It only blooms at night. I cannot even begin to tell you about the wonderful smell when it blooms..you know because you can smell the loveliness in the air. These are pretty cool slow frame (lol) time lapse pictures. I snapped this one on Friday morning so I knew it wouldn't be to long...Mom and I had discovered it had a bud on it last week so we really were paying attention. She was afraid it would bloom before she got back from camping...

I was on guard and standing watch ..

yes camera in hand...just in case. Then I had been doing my yard work ( cutting up heart shape trees) on Saturday and snapped this picture just before the parents got home. I think it was around 1 or 2. So, I knew it would open tonight and was happy mom made it in and informed her the minute she did get it in.

This is around 7 I met her out there, oh the smell was incredible..
side view just lovely

this is around 9

This is at midnight fully open

close up of the center

side view

this is at 1:00 am just beautiful

Not everybody gets to witness a night orchid bloom, if you just saw the leaves you wouldn't think it could produce something this beautiful... "Never know what the beauty within holds"

Hope you all in enjoyed seeing it. This plant is named O'dette after moms "late" friend.

It has had up to twenty blooms at one time on it, she has an O'dette album. Totally Cool..

We have several cool plants like O'dette and we kill ourselves all year long protecting them, winters aren't that bad, it the hurricanes we move in, move out, move in, move out. Oh no we don't leave ...somebody has to take pictures...we just batten down the hatches and hide the plants...this year they have their very own greenhouse for protection!

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