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Plumeria alba |
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| The rooted stick in early April |
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| A month later |
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| Voluptuous new growth |
Common name |
white frangipani |
Family |
apocynaceae |
Life cycle |
shrub/tree (Z10-12) |
Flowers |
white |
Size |
15' |
Light |
sun |
Cultural notes |
ordinary garden soil |
Even Houston's winters aren't warm enough to keep plumeria alive, but I couldn't resist picking up an odd-looking rooted stick with a few leaves emerging from the top on a visit to a local garden center. I'll watch what it does for the year, and if I'm really ambitious I might even try to keep it alive indoors through the winter. Don't know if I'll ever see flowers, but it's fun to experiment.
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| Making a statement in mid-September |
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| Mid-October: looks like flower buds! |
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| Early November: they've grown, and survived one mild frost |
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| Alas, another series of frosts in December did it in... |
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| ...and those buds never popped |
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| But behold! In mid-April, some new growth from the base. That big heap of mulch I arrange around its trunk must have done its job. |
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This plant used to grow in our garden, but it slipped away... About my plant portraits
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