A century plant off the front porch

This summer a century plant right below my front porch bloomed. This is it's first and last bloom ever, after  sending up this long stalk and opening flowers over weeks, the stalk will set seed, and the plant will die. This stalk is the grand culmination of its life. Therefore, I thought it worthwhile to track the many pollinators drawn to the flowers this summer. 

Hummingbirds

Butterflies

This is its view

Sphinx moths

The blooms are gone, now it is a perch for this little hawk

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