Blooming beautiful?

Thanks. No guarantees. See my reply to Bobwjr below.

@FrayedBear A well-wish hope, then!

@MikeInBatonRouge thank you. I don't get many!

@MikeInBatonRouge This is however the second year that I've posted this scenario so hopefully it will appear again in about 12 months to brighten your northern encroaching winter drab.

@FrayedBear I at least have quite modest winter drab, as I am in frost zone 9a. Pretty mild winters, usually. My yard just a week or so ago: (I have no idea the why or how of this crazy site photo 90° twist. It seems random but more often than not.)

@MikeInBatonRouge lovely roses. Because I'm basically not allowed to plant in the ground most of mine is in tubs or pots. It also is very dry in heats of 40°+ C in summer. Roses do not do well for me - indeed anything needing regular watering. The roses can do well round here but not for or with me.

@MikeInBatonRouge Swivelling photos don't seem to happen from Android phones.

@FrayedBear Mine is an android phone.

@FrayedBear that is definitely hot for roses. Here it tends to stay in the mid-30s celcius for months. We can thank the humidity, which brings rain often to mitigate what otherwise would be scorching hot.

@MikeInBatonRouge do you edit & reduce file size before posting?

@FrayedBear No

@MikeInBatonRouge it may be the problem.

@FrayedBear I don't quite understand what process reduces file size. In the past I tried "pre-rotating" pics in the opposite direction before attaching it. But that only triggered rotation wrong in some other way, either upside down or counter-clockwise. Never upright.

@MikeInBatonRouge when you finish editing & save the photo you are given an option as to what size you save it as. For uploading I use the minimum size thus saving about 10 Mg. per photo uploaded.

Thanks Bob it's largely time, serendipity & a wet winter together with a move about 3 years ago to widely use weed cloth, overcrowd plants & do as little as possible. The pricklies by the gate are to encourage visitors to stay away.

Next to the Epiphyllum is this spiky evil:

Epiphyllum

Yes & yes.

Epiphyllum - only the first or second time that it has flowered for me. Obviously like being neglected or was it the fertiliser pellets that I gave about a month ago?