Plumeria Flower

Our plumeria puts out mostly yellow flowers with just this tinge of pink.  The pink is much more noticeable on the back though.

This is after a day of falling off of the plant.  It's still holding its shape.  Probably why they are so useful in making leis. Abundance is nice since they grow all over Hawaii but if they wilted in an hour they would pretty much be useless for crafts.

This got me to wondering if you could use them elsewhere.  I quickly found a unanimous "Don't Eat Them."  Ok, I won't.

They are used in fragrances though to varying degrees. Some claim to be just like the scent but reviews range all over the place.  About what you'd expect for any product.

This was one of my grandmother's favorite scents though and she had a candle that did smell just like plumerias, although she liked to use the word frangipani which made finding out exactly what it was, once I grew up and didn't remember clearly what she called it, difficult to say the least.  So nice I can go outside right now and smell it straight from the plant.

Plumeria Flowers

The flowers are getting further along.  I wasn't really sure what to expect but it wasn't this.  I had though there would be a couple flowers here and there but this looks like it's going to spread and keep making more clusters.

Really though I think it's about done with the splitting.  Maybe about 15 flowers from my count.  It's nice that they are spread out like this though so they can really show off.  I can't wait until it gets bigger and really gets blooming.  Some of the trees we've seen in Hawaii have hundreds of blooms at once.

It's about to hit 100 degrees outside so I really need to be on keeping everything watered.  Heat is the number one thing that kills a garden around here.  I'll probably need to water at least twice a day if not more when the heat is unbearable outside.  We're also on the lake so I'm expecting that the humidity will keep up with it and maybe drop the temps around the house at least a degree or two.

One thing I don't know about this plant is what color the blooms will be.  There are so many different colors it could be from white to deep burgundy.  I'll just have to wait and see what I got. If you haven't been reading the rest of the blog, I got this plant from a friend who originally bought it for her mom but hadn't picked it up from us for some time and was sweet enough to let us have it after we planted it and took care of it for over a month.

If you have a favorite plumeria color or favorite flower in general I'd love to hear about it.