Plumeria Frangipani

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The beautiful frangipani with so many variations in flowers with colours as beautiful as sunsets a real winner tough easy to propagate gorgeous flowers with a wonderful scent when you think of the tropics palms and frangipani are symbolic to the tropical look great for hanging baskets or orchids or any other small epithets they can get a bit messy in fall but a carpet of flowers certainly makes up for that 

[Manalto]

It's one of those fragrances that seem familiar and evocative from the very first encounter. They should be planted where they'll be enjoyed both day (beautiful flowers) and night (intoxicating scent). A common street tree in Havana, they transform that sad city into a nostalgic fantasy, if for only a moment.

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1 hour ago, Manalto said:

It's one of those fragrances that seem familiar and evocative from the very first encounter. They should be planted where they'll be enjoyed both day (beautiful flowers) and night (intoxicating scent). A common street tree in Havana, they transform that sad city into a nostalgic fantasy, if for only a moment.

We have a city in Australia that has jacaranda festival the whole town has been planted with jacaranda trees and visitors from around the world come to see Graftons famous festival its spectacular to see but the frangipani is one to behold with such beauty and fragrance I could only imagine the streets of Havana with the fragrance adding to the atmosphere of Cuba 

[Tracy]

Nothing like seeing Plumeria in habitat in Central America where they grow right up to the edge of the Pacific Ocean. The ones pictured below were growing in El Salvador next to a right point break my sons and I went to for a surf trip a few years back.  It's a "Secret Spot"... so secret that we ran into people in the water who were also visiting from Encinitas and Carlsbad.  So much for getting away from it on a surf trip.  My own plumeria's remind me not only of their native habitat I have visited in Central America over the years, but the ones I have seen in the Tropical South Pacific, Hawaii and even in some hotels on islands in the Indian Ocean.  Nice to be able to grow them in my own backyard too.

[Tracy]

In my own yard, just one of many opening right now.

[Gallop]

I grow a few in pots. 

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Wow now that’s some lovely frangipani you have beautiful 

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23 hours ago, Tracy said:

Nothing like seeing Plumeria in habitat in Central America where they grow right up to the edge of the Pacific Ocean. The ones pictured below were growing in El Salvador next to a right point break my sons and I went to for a surf trip a few years back.  It's a "Secret Spot"... so secret that we ran into people in the water who were also visiting from Encinitas and Carlsbad.  So much for getting away from it on a surf trip.  My own plumeria's remind me not only of their native habitat I have visited in Central America over the years, but the ones I have seen in the Tropical South Pacific, Hawaii and even in some hotels on islands in the Indian Ocean.  Nice to be able to grow them in my own backyard too.

Nice photos Tracy absolutely love the surf pictures I guess spot x is no longer a secret surf break anymore now with the internet and traveling so many surf breaks are no longer hidden prime right handlers still the same break but now with crowds 

[Tracy]

Two plants, two growth habits in ground.

1) San Diego Sunset crawling out of a planter and onto the deck.  I annually end up lopping off the growth coming onto the deck to keep it from taking over the space.  That is one plant winding around.  It also has branches dropping down the other side of the planter and crawling along the ground.

2) An unknown that was acquired as Hilo Beauty but clearly was mislabeled (last photo shows it's flowers).  This one is growing into something that could eventually turn into a small tree.  It didn't get the word that Autumn has arrived ,as it opens its first flowers of the "summer" of 2023.

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4 hours ago, Tracy said:

Two plants, two growth habits in ground.

1) San Diego Sunset crawling out of a planter and onto the deck.  I annually end up lopping off the growth coming onto the deck to keep it from taking over the space.  That is one plant winding around.  It also has branches dropping down the other side of the planter and crawling along the ground.

2) An unknown that was acquired as Hilo Beauty but clearly was mislabeled (last photo shows it's flowers).  This one is growing into something that could eventually turn into a small tree.  It didn't get the word that Autumn has arrived ,as it opens its first flowers of the "summer" of 2023.

A nice collection of plants oh and the frangipani are absolutely the focal point