I have posted each of the past few years as we got blooms on our night-blooming sirius plants.  For each of 2011, 2012, and 2013, we had exactly one bloom.  This year, we had 2 flowers growing in late July.  Even though we have 2 separate plants now (having divided the original plant in the spring of 2013), both of these flowers grew on the same plant, and the smaller plant remained bloomless (but perhaps blameless).

It looked as though the 2 flowers might open on the same night, but they ended up being 1 night off from each other.  Here is the one that opened on August 4 (click photos to make bigger):

On that same night, the one that wasn’t yet open looked like this:

Then that one bloomed on the evening of the 5th:

As always, each bloom closed and withered the next morning, and fell off within a few days.

We thought that 2 blooms in the same year was quite special, since it had not happened before.  It appeared a month later that there would be more, as 6 flower buds appeared on that same plant in early September, and they started to grow.  A few of them got almost the size of the August ones, but they never actually opened, likely because of the colder weather (this is technically a tropical plant).  We were prepared to be flabbergasted by a 4-8 bloom year, but 2 blooms and 6 more attempts are certainly impressive.  Most impressive.