Goodmorning, Dragon Fruit
Our dragon fruit plants are a magical part of our garden. Going from a non-descript cactus/succulent looking plant, to having an amazing flower show that disappears in a day, to having amazing super healthy fruit orbs.
Dragon Fruit Plants: Photos in Garden
During the last few months, we found our selves rolling out of bed in the wee hours of the morning and heading out to the garden with our eyes still half closed. Yes, even without our espresso, we’re hauling our sleepy bodies out of bed. This morning ritual only occurs during our dragon fruit season. The reason why is because our dragon fruit plants have produced tons (well, almost) of flowers , which only bloom at night and into the early morning. This 12 hour bloom cycle is fast, furious and spectacular! The dragon fruit flowers are stunning trumpets of white petals with all the flower sex parts, exposed for us early morning risers. Seeing the monstrous detail of floral stamen and pistil sex parts is almost erotic, if we were awake enough to enjoy it! Once the heat of the sun and day fall on the flowers, they wilt and disappear into floral oblivion. That is why we wake ourselves up early, to see this amazing blooming ritual. After that, we go back to bed! 😉
Different Varieties of Dragon Fruit
It’s been a good dragon fruit year for us collectors. We have a total of 5 varieties, all different, unique and some rare. The variety here is the pink/red skinned and white centered variety, which is the most common in the United States. Our bounty is not quite ripe yet, maybe in another few days the sugar content will increase and will be ready for picking. It was such a beautiful sight to see our plant still producing flowers this late into the season.
I thought I’d quickly share with you what I saw this morning. I just couldn’t wait till the big dragon fruit post to be finished. We’ll have lot of dragon fruit recipes ideas too. But until then, here’s a few photo’s of my beautiful morning. This is the best part of gardening, seeing all of natures steps, one flower at a time and one fruit at a time. I hope you are as excited as we are about this amazing plant.
Photos of flowers and plants
up close and personal. dragon fruit “scales” or “fins”
Previous Dragon Fruit Posts and Photographs:
- 2014: Gorgeous and freshly picked dragon fruit!
- Dragon Fruit Salad Recipe
- 2009 – Dragon Fruit Flowers
- Summer 2008 – Dragon Fruit growing on the vine and more Dragon fruit recipes
- Summer 2007 – Cool pictures showing the whole life cycle of Dragon fruit plants
Some cool dragon fruit recipes we’ve found. If you made something with dragon fruit, please feel free to link away too!
could you please help me with this, my friend has only one dragon fruit tree, which flowered last year, then no fruit, does she need to have another tree for the bees to polinate thank you for your time to answer this querry, Gay McKay
Usually most dragon fruit don’t need another plant nearby. They just need the pollinators. Sometimes it is a type of moth, other plants bees do the work. It usually doesn’t hurt to have a second plant though. More to attract.
1 dragon fruit
2 apricots
1 nectine
2 plums or greengages
1 sharon fruit
wash and clean all fruits,then cut and peel then place in dish,cut sharon fruit in half and squeeze juice out, then use teaspoon to scrape all seeds out.This makes a zesty fruit salad to be enjoyed with ice cream or double cream.
Another thing you can do is either make or get a menringue or make a paviola,add the above and spoil yourself rotten..whip up double cream and dust it with abit of chocolate.I use the white variety of chocolate but any well do.
This treat is gorgeous enough to grace anybody’s dinner table.
I’m in Savannah Georgia. Where can the plants/seeds be purchased?
Thanks for sharing!!
Wow! So beautiful. Never heard that dragonfruit plant produce flower like this. Very very beautiful.
I’m just picturing myself, with my coffee, looking at this beautiful scenery. Wonderful pictures.
truly spectacular. thanks for sharing the wonders of your amazing garden with us.
i am so jealous!! i have seen dragon fruits in my salad or in my plate but nothing much the beauty of this! yay!!
Wow! Your pics are beautiful! How fun to grow dragonfruit! I’m still struggling to grow the lowly tomato – and with a week of temps in the high 70’s I’ve picked about 17 of them – a bumper crop for me! I haven’t been here in a while and I’ve spent the last bit getting caught up – time well spent!
Absolutely out of this world!!! I’m so entirely jealous that you have the climate and growing season that harvests this wonderful fruit. You’ve captured one of the most spectacular wonders of nature. Great job!!!
That is fantastic! It immediately brought a smile to my face.
Never had dragon fruit before. Can’t wait to learn more through your posts.
What a lovely sight….I would love that instead of old dog breath and young puppy licks 🙂
I love just looking at them and the flowers are gorgeous!
Great pictures! It looks very Japanese.
xoxo
Breathtakingly beautiful. Wish I was there to see it for myself!
So excited to see this post! My local grocer just started carrying dragonfruit and I was wondering what in the heck to do with those beauties.
I cannot, cannot believe that you have these growing in your little eden. But of course you do!
Great shots! Don’t you love early am photo taking .. nice soft light and beautiful things you normally don’t see! We have some lillies that only seem to open on mornings like that.
Hey … I saw something on Twitter, that Todd was up in the Bay Area – what’s up??!!! 😉