SURPRISE IN THE GARDEN!!!

Reversing out the driveway thismorning, and on a day just like any other day, I look through the carport and see what looked like a tree that had been stripped of all it's leaves. And as I KNEW there wasn't a tree in that particular spot I had to go and have a look.
Now, it starts like this - I knew that plant was there, but that trunk going up ... NO!!!

and the trunk starts

and that trunk keeps going up and up!!!

And on that trunk are these.....

Soooo.... I assume there will be some flowerssometime in the near future. How soon I have no idea. This has been in the garden for 5 years and never flowered, so we have a surprise coming!!!... I think.