Q. Over the holidays, an acquaintance gave me a houseplant as a gift. She called it a night-blooming Cereus and said it was a ...

On June 12, this and hundreds of other night-blooming cereus flowers burst open in the span of a few hours at the Tohono Chul garden in Tucson, Arizona, the world's largest private collection of the ...

After collecting newspapers from the driveway the other morning, I was almost back inside when I spotted some news of my own. At the edge of the porch, our night-blooming cereus had offered its first ...

Night blooming cereus blooms generally during the summer, primarily from about May or June through October -- occasionally later. Blooming is sporadic, not continuous, and plants must be old enough ...