Growing Frangipani Or Plumeria In My Garden

There were many Frangipani trees in my primary school's compound and my classmates and I used to pick up the white flowers from the ground. We used to tie them together like shuttlecocks and had fun kicking them as a game. At that time, there were only white flowers.

Frangipani is the common name of this fragrant flowering plant.

Its scientific name is Plumeria.
A gardening expert told that this is called Bali Hai Gold Flower.

Few months ago, a church friend told me that she had some Frangipani stem cuttings and asked me whether I wanted any. Out of the few cuttings of 2 different colours, only 1 survived. Due to over watering, the other stem cuttings rotted. I learned that Frangipani does not like too much water.

I then transferred the small plant into this pot with good drainage soil

With only 1 left, I was hoping that it would be my favourite colour.

After a few months it has grown to about 3 feet tall.

Then it showed sign of flowering. I was very excited.

The flower stalk began to grow longer.

Currently, Plumeria flowers come in many different colours.

Some flowers are bicolour and some tricolours of many shades.

The plant is now about 4 feet tall.

The leaf from the end of its stalk to the tip of leaf is about 1.5 feet.

Frangipani or Plumeria are low maintenance plants.

The flower buds are growing bigger.

The main flower stalk is about a foot long.

6 smaller flower stalks branching from the main stalk.

They look like candles on a multi tier candle holder.

By now the colour of the flowers is obvious.

It is yellow!

It is yellow with cream border. 

This beautiful sight brightens up my mornings.

Thanks and praises to my Lord for this beauty!

 This photo was taken a year ago in the Herbal Garden I visited with my friends.
Different shades of pink with yellow centre.

Giant seed pods of the Frangipani tree in the Herbal Garden.

 And this picture was taken in my sister's garden.

Aren't they stunning and gorgeous?

I am hoping for some stem cuttings from her garden. Lol!

Okay, now back to my own garden.

I noticed 2 new branches growing from the base of the flower stalk.

It is really amazing that it can bloom so beautifully growing from a pot.
A word of caution: The milky sap is poisonous!

For the time being, these striking yellow flowers and the sweet fragrance holds centre stage in my garden.

As far as God is concerned there is a sweet,

wholesome fragrance in our lives.

It is the fragrance of Christ within us,

an aroma to both the saved and the unsaved all around us.

(2 Corinthians 2:15, The Living Bible-TLB)