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!
simply amazing!!!! i love dragon fruit… different, but very good… 🙂 thanks for sharing… my kid2 loves to plant… all the seeds he got from the fruits he ate, he planted them… he’s so excited to visit his plants every morning…
ok, officially i must get myself some dragonfruit! i’ve seen it written about everywhere and now i’m more curious than ever!!!
Wow! Amazing to me how similar they are to my Queen of the Night (I guess it is no surprise as they are both cereus?). I wish my QotN would produce fruit like that though 🙂 Thanks for stumbling out of bed so early to capture those awesome pics! Sorry I’ve been outta the loop lately – been in a bad way 🙁 xxoo
beautiful pictures. this may be the closest i ever come to seeing a dragonfruit. 🙂
Those look great–I wish I had such a green thumb! I’ve come to find seeing the whole fruit lifecycle strangely interesting as well. And its funny, but I could swear that I’ve found some passionfruit growing next to where I park my car at work…and I’ve watched it day by day as its sprouted bizarre looking flowers to now when it has nicely sized fruit…if only the area wasn’t so polluted, I’d be taking those fruits home by the handful. 😉
I can’t wait to see what you guys have in store for these fruit. And thanks for the mention 🙂
Absolutely beautiful. Good thing you woke up early in the morning and we have the chance to enjoy your photos. Thanks!
What a spectacular sight to wake up to! I am in total awe! The fruit are so beautiful, themselves, but those flowers are unbelievable! I wonder if they would grow here.
How funny. I just had my first taste of one of these on Saturday. Don’t know if you’ve heard about the new Thai place in Santa Ana everyone is raving (and Yelp!ing) about – Siam Taste of Asia. I’ve gone two weeks in a row. The owner, Siam, is very generous and is always giving away free desserts. Anyway, last week I was the only one in there at the end of my meal and she was talking to me about gardening and using her own herbs and vegetables at the restaurant and next thing I knew, she had a dragonfruit in front of me with a plate and a knife so I could try it. 🙂 It was so, so good. So expensive to buy though! So you guys are lucky to grow your own for sure.
those are absolutely beautiful. so where do we get these lovely things at?
Man, these guys have changed since we saw them! Talk about an awesome sight. I can completely understand getting up early to check them out!
I really hadn’t seen these before, and just saw some at a local grocery store last week.
I am waiting for some recipes from you guys, then I might well have to dive in!!
So, so pretty. How lucky you are to have those blooming wonders in your garden!
Amazing! I love how gorgeous the flowers are. My folks were just in town and my mom was so excited about her little plant blooming. Yay, dragonfruit!
I was wondering where one can buy the dragon fruit plant. I am located in Southern CA. Thanks!
what a lovely muse.
I love it when you talk dirty… Dirty flower secks, hahaha 🙂 I’ve only ever seen the white-fleshed variety here– the fuschia ones are a curiosity to me. I can’t believe the plants grow so huge from those tiny seeds!
Spectacular! I don’t think I’ve ever eaten these. I wonder if they would grow here. Probably not, but it’s nice to see your beauties!