Our very own Queen of the Night

We've got a 'Queen of the Night' plant in our front garden: Epiphyllum oxypetalum. It's a cactus that looks like an orchid. It's native to the rain forests of Mexico, seems to be happy here in Sydney, and I planted ours a few years ago.

It only flowers at night, and according to some accounts, only for one night at a time. I think we may have got two or three nights out of ours. This week was the first time ever that I'd caught it at the right moment.

It's quite spectacular when it finally does its thing. And then, as the label says, it looks bad after blooming and just needs a bit of a rest.