Last week ’s full moon has come and gone , leave a duo of our night blooming plants lost as they missed the event by a few day . I ’ll share with you that I was on the QT planning to post last Wednesday , the annual bloom of our Night Blooming Cereus , which usually happens in the greenhouse every August on the night of the Full Sturgeon Moon , an incredible and strangely mysterious event of nature , but this year , for some reason , the timing was off by a full week . I ’ve been question why , but the reason might be something more human tie in , than nature related .
Perhaps our dark blossom works just did n’t realize how rare last weeks full moon was , for according to astronomers , that incredibly beautiful Full Sturgeon Moon last workweek was also fluke of nature , technically a Blue Moon . “ But wait a moment … ” , you may be saying , “ … is n’t a Blue Moon just a full moon that occurs in the same calendar month in which a full moonlight already occurred ? ” Well , yes , but the expert are telling us differently – last weeks ’ Blue Moon was also the third full synodic month in a four - full lunar month time of year , and that was , and is , the true definition of a Blue Moon .
Another plant blooming tonight is the Night Blooming Jasmine , not really a Jasmine at all , but rather a Cestrum nocturnum , a genus with about 250 metal money which is more closely related to the tomato than jasminum . We gardeners really do n’t deal , for the scent is incredibly sweet , if not overpowering . The event here is only briefly longer than the night - blooming cereus , with flowers lasting for only a few days on these warm , tropic bush . Our works spends wintertime in the cold nursery , but it ’s the press cutting which I plant out each year , into the perennial border . Cestrum species produce so rapidly , that a 4 inch cut can reach 4 feet tall in a few month . I will take cuttings near the end of summertime , which will carry our stock through the winter . woefully , the flora only blooms once a year , yet for one week of super fragrancy ( I think it smell like grape Pez candy ) , it ’s worth it . The hot , humid Night of August would seem incomplete without the scent of these two plants , if only for a twenty-four hours or two .
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