Tropicals & Tender Perennials: About to bloom or about to die? Can you tell?, 1 by shoobnanny

shoobnanny wrote:
now I'm new to these as well... got mine by accident at Wal-Mart... they had it labeled as a mandevillia... of course I knew better by the look of that blossom... what mine does is it blooms and as the sun set it closes up.... I assume they all do this... and then I'm left with a closed-up, droopy, limp bloom.... from what I've been watching on these threads is this is normal and if we are lucky, a little passion FRUIT will develop... I bet yours bloomed and you just missed it... they are sneaky... amongst all those leaves... here's my Emperess Eugenie (p. belotii)...taken yesterday.... they smell SO DELICIOUS... I work in Houston, so by the time I make the 30 mile trip home in the evening, these babies have lost their scent and are closing up... so every weekend I pray for buds to open just so I can sniff 'em... they smell like lemony Ivory soap... mmmmm :-)