🌿Epiphyllum Marilyn Monroe Flower - update 🩷🌿

 

I didn't think she would bloom today, with it being so foggy and gloomy . 

But here she is ! Finally !

I think this photo best shows the colours of her petals . Soft pink on the centre . Peach/nude on the outer petals .

                This one also shows the colour of the petals more accurately .

  Hard to take good photos in such a gloomy fast fading evening light . It has been foggy and gloomy all day ! 

                                        Along the cliffs here earlier today .

If the sun comes out tomorrow I might take some more photos in better light . 

   Hope you all enjoyed my pics of this sensational Epie !

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🌿🤍Epiphyllum update 🤍🌿

                       This morning in the greenhouse ....can you see them ? 

   Epiphyllum var buttercup  ( not E. cooperi  🌿I climbed in and found the label ! )

 This is how it looked yesterday evening . It has the most beautiful bud . 

No fragrance detected just yet ...maybe later on . Oh my heart ! It is beautiful !

I couldn't reach to get a photo of it from the front side . I'll try and climb in there and have another go later on .

And then ...........

                   🌿🤍 Epiphyllum crenatum  🤍🌿

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                  Is your heart beating faster too ? 🤍 So lovely !

I acquired these many years ago from Mr Pilbeam of Connoisseurs Cacti  . Many of my cacti came from him too .

( Ignore the yellow Hylocereus undatus label...it's in the big pot behind . This one is E. crenatum )

Hylocereus undatus - possibly the largest plant in my greenhouse .Very generously given to me by my botanical brother . In a massive tub and scrabbling along a branch . It grows very fast , it punctures it's way through the netting and continues along above it in the roof . I 'm thinking maybe it wants more sunshine than all my Epiphyllums can take . I've had it for years and years ...it has never produced a flower .

I have taken some cuttings from it and will experiment with them to find a better position for it . ☀️

                     Lots of lovely new Epi shoots in the morning sunshine .

                     So now I must turn my thoughts to my Passiflora seedlings !

                                       They need repotting . My job for today .

                            Passiflora manicata and Passiflora mollissima .

I like my plants to grow the way they want to grow . A little bit of scrabbling about through my Epies might actually be cool .

but

 .... then again , maybe these are beginning to run the risk of getting totally out of control !

I like a little bit of totally out of control . 🤔  Plants definitely like to be out of control . 

                🌿I have a feeling these might want to take over the planet !  🌍

                                   Make it a great day ! Sending love ! 

                                                🌿☀️🌿 

    correction 🙄- So I climbed in and found the label ! It was not E.cooperi but E.var buttercup .   💛

Epiphyllum var "Marilyn Monroe" - still waiting

 

Every morning early I am rushing up to my greenhouse to see if Marilyn Monroe has arrived ! 

The bud on this Epiphyllum is growing larger every time I go to look . You are not supposed to move the position of these plants when they are in bud like this , but she has now become so large that there is not enough space for her to fully open her petals .

                      So I have moved her into a more generous space towards the back .

I had planted her as a cutting last year inside a tomato cage for support but as you can see she has escaped . Epiphyllums like to roam wild and free .

E. Marilyn Monroe is supposed to have a large pink flower . I bought this from another Epie fan , Beverly in  Falmouth . Beverly I hope you are well and looking in today💐 . I am so excited to see her open that flower ! Will it be today ? Will it be tomorrow ? 

Watch this space !  🌿💚🌿