Frangipani or Plumeria

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Anyone else have any experience trying to grow these plants?
You guys call them Plumeria but we call them Frangipani down here.
They have a beautiful flower that i hope to enjoy throughout the summer months
I just bought 2 off our ebay equivalent. They are a tropical plant and are not frost or freeze tolerant.
We are not tropical although we only get a couple of frosts a year in my city.
I'll need to monitor any winter cold snap and bring them inside. I will keep them on the deck in the backyard so they will get all day sun....if there is any.
My initial intention was to plant one in the yard but I'll certainly wait until one is more established before doing so....if at all. I bought 2 so I could gamble with one in the ground and one in a pot to bring inside for cold spells.

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Clutch said:
Anyone else have any experience trying to grow these plants?
You guys call them Plumeria but we call them Frangipani down here.
They have a beautiful flower that i hope to enjoy throughout the summer months
I just bought 2 off our ebay equivalent. They are a tropical plant and are not frost or freeze tolerant.
We are not tropical although we only get a couple of frosts a year in my city.
I'll need to monitor any winter cold snap and bring them inside. I will keep them on the deck in the backyard so they will get all day sun....if there is any.
My initial intention was to plant one in the yard but I'll certainly wait until one is more established before doing so....if at all. I bought 2 so I could gamble with one in the ground and one in a pot to bring inside for cold spells.

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I've seen them a lot in South Florida, below Orlando/Tampa, but we're too far North for them to survive.
 
Johali said:
I've seen them a lot in South Florida, below Orlando/Tampa, but we're too far North for them to survive.
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And I could be too far south. I guess time will tell.
I googled our recorded coldest ever overnight temperature in my city and at the airport it was 29.84F and locally 27F.
That could be a worry...although I'm just above sea level being on a small peninsula.
Anyhow they grow slowly so will be in pots for a few years before I decide to plant one. :)
 
They will lose all their leaves and go dormant during winter.....then you don't water them until spring when the leaves start forming on the ends.
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Clutch said:
Anyone else have any experience trying to grow these plants?
You guys call them Plumeria but we call them Frangipani down here.
They have a beautiful flower that i hope to enjoy throughout the summer months
I just bought 2 off our ebay equivalent. They are a tropical plant and are not frost or freeze tolerant.
We are not tropical although we only get a couple of frosts a year in my city.
I'll need to monitor any winter cold snap and bring them inside. I will keep them on the deck in the backyard so they will get all day sun....if there is any.
My initial intention was to plant one in the yard but I'll certainly wait until one is more established before doing so....if at all. I bought 2 so I could gamble with one in the ground and one in a pot to bring inside for cold spells.

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They're all over the place here. Lots of different colors.
 
Apparently they are really easy to grow. I have a friend that is a Hawaiian native, she has a plant here that she brought from the islands, it is about 15' around and about 10' high. She keeps trying to give me a piece of it for my house.
 
Never heard of them, but if it's too cold for them in North Florida then no way they would grow in Southeast Pennsylvania
 
BobbyFord said:
Apparently they are really easy to grow. I have a friend that is a Hawaiian native, she has a plant here that she brought from the islands, it is about 15' around and about 10' high. She keeps trying to give me a piece of it for my house.
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Take it. Yes they grow from cuttings easily.
 
Well I bought the 2 plants last summer and have kept them out side all winter with no damage so I'm very happy. In early October a flower stem started forming and finally after 3 months one bud bloomed yesterday!
It was a long wait but in the end very satisfying......many more are on the way.
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I knew a guy here in Oklahoma that grew banana trees in his back yard. In the fall he would dig them up wrap the root ball in burlap and put them under his house until replanting in spring. It might work to cover it during a cold spell Clutch
 
StandOnIt said:
I knew a guy here in Oklahoma that grew banana trees in his back yard. In the fall he would dig them up wrap the root ball in burlap and put them under his house until replanting in spring. It might work to cover it during a cold spell Clutch
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Yes,.....some people use frost cloth over them....I just used tough love.....and don't want them coddled ...but yes I'll monitor winter weather for any frosty periods...but they are quite rare
 
Clutch next time you're out I'll try and snap you off a branch or two. I've got several different colors I can scavenge if you want. One of my favorite generic landscape plants for sure.
 
Some very pretty flowers been blooming from this plant. I'm very happy so far and my other plant is about a month away from blooming.
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