Nightflowers in the street

This moment I have more flowers than vegetables. I don’t know the name in english, we call it nighflower.

nightflower Nightflowers in the street

It’s really beautiful in the ugly grey city street. The flowers open the afternoon and smells so wonderfull until morning.  We have our nightflowers many years. They are 2 colors, yellow and dark pink, but as you can see they ‘re form one color more.

nightflower2 Nightflowers in the street

Something with yellow and dark pink also. Mother Nature make party here.

It’s the only flower I have in earth here, but I will put this post under the category  “My container garden” where I have everything I grow in city.

published by CityGarden on June 18, 2008 | Category: Flowers, My container garden 10 Comments »
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10 comments in “Nightflowers in the street”

  • I believe those are also called Four O’Clocks, because of the time of day they bloom. They sure are pretty…it’s been too long for me to remember how the smell, though. I bet some of these plants would do nicely at your far-away allotment, toO!


  • We call those pretty flowers “Four o’Clocks” because they open the blooms in the afternoon about four o’clock.

    I love those flowers, but it is too cold to grow them here unless I dig up the roots and store them in a place where they will not get too cold. Then next spring have to plant them back into the ground.

    When I was a child, I lived farther south. My mother grew them there and they came back every year, because it was a little bit warmer there. She planted them against the brick house and I think that helped to protect them and kept them warm.


  • In French they’re called Belle de Nuit – night flowers again. They’re lovely, aren’t they? They grow wild here, so I should think Greg is right to suggest that you could grow them on your plot. I’ll try to find out the English name.


  • I know nothing about these lovely plants, but I do like Night Flower and Four o’clocks as names for them. I am now wondering if they would grow in a sheltered UK garden. I’d best find out the UK name then :)


  • CityGarden

    Thank you all! “Four O’Clocks” is a pretty name. I will search to find more informations.

    @Greg I don’t know about my plot because they want frequent watering in our hot dry summer. But I can give them a try.

    @Barbee maybe you’re right. We don’t have so cold winter in my city. We have snow rarely and the nightflowers came back every year. I never protect their roots or something like this.

    @chaiselongue Yes! They’re lovely! I love them

    @Bird I suppose they can grow in UK nicely.


  • It’s quite a treat to run into a garden blog from Greece, and thanks to Blotanical, I have found my way to your lovely place and blog. I was delighted! And just for the record, your English is very good and I enjoyed every little bit of reading through your blog. I’m from an equally beautiful Mediterranean country (Croatia) but in the summer, Greece is my second home, Kefalonia in particular. I have many friends all over Greece, and I have fallen in love both with the Greek natural beauty & culture, but also your own, very famous brand of Greekness. And I’m sure you know that owning a plot in the countryside, with or without the house, is in a way priceless, for any gardening soul. Keep up your excellent work as I’m going to keep an eye on it ;-)

    Greetings from Croatia
    Violet

    P.S. I would have loved to see Greece go through in the Euro’08, rather than any other of the teams in your group.


  • Alison

    What an interesting plant! I haven’t come across it before either, but you have inspired me to try it here in England – I want to know what it smells like. The latin name is Mirabilis jalapa, there is some information on Wikipedia:-

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirabilis_jalapa

    I am now going to read the rest of your blog!


  • ewa

    Hi, I found your blog thanks to Pat @ Bifurcated Carrot and I am very happy :) I like your blog – I have been few times in Greece and always was surprised with amount of new plants and flowers I could see. I hope you will introduce us to some of them :)
    Thank you, greetings from Poland,
    ewa


  • CityGarden

    @Violet welcome and thank you!
    You are so sweet.
    When you have some piece of land it’s good, but it’s priceless when you love the area also.
    My parents have some small plots in their villages also, but I never like these villages, because both of them have near industriall area. Maybe it’s because I never lived in these villages, I don’t know.
    Kefalonia is beautiful I must go there some year, you ‘re lucky!

    @ewa welcome to CityGarden. I will try to introduce you a part of Greek flora, but I think that you came in Greece for vacation. Last year I lived some months in Santorini but most of the
    time I live in Thessaloniki. Our islands have different plants and flowers usually.


  • CityGarden

    @Alison your comment needed moderation, sorry.
    I can’t describe the smell but it’s beautiful.
    Thank you for the latin name, it’s useful.

    We throwing away many seeds every year, If you (or someone else) want to send you some of them I can save the seeds.


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