This putrid smelling flower weighs 120-179 pounds. The corps flower can reach 7-12 feet high and 3-4 feet wide. The corpse flower blooms every 3-10 years. A fully opened flower weighs 40-500 pounds. Now thats alot of impressive numbers for a flower.

Idaho’s most famous gardener came from China. Sold into slavery by her family, she was shipped to San Francisco and then to the rough  gold fields of the Idaho Territory. She prospered by providing fresh vegetables from her gardens to the miners and businesses of the camps and the cities of the territory.

Thank you to everyone that entered and congratulations to Steve Graham our winner.  You can expect to receive your plants next week.  Happy planting! 

A friend brought this torch cactus back from Arizona for me last year.  I wondered, at the time, if I would ever see him bloom, well today he did!