Frangipani: FOTD Aug 20. 2023

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Frangipani or Plumeria

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  2. Sam's avatarSam

    None of my Frangipanis bloomed this year. They are doing “OK” and are alive and healthy, but it has just been too hot and too dry for them in this terrible summer.

    As you know they must be potted here and kept smaller by pruning in the fall, due to the hard freeze in the winter. Usually, they are very happy. I pull them out of the pots, wrap them in old rugs and newspaper, roots and all, and put them under a table horizontally on my sun porch for the winter. In spring they are replanted in the same pots they came out of, minus the cuttings that I removed when I took them out of the pots.

    By spring, these cuttings are healed over and ready to pot separately or given to friends as gifts. This is an interesting plant for me and I know that yours are trees down there. But we do what is necessary to have what we like.

    If I left them in their very large pots, they would be OK if a sheet were put over them vertically on the sun porch. But it would be a mess, taking up much-needed space, and I just like messing with them.

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