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Post by jrae on Jan 25, 2012 19:16:08 GMT
I remember Cherry mentioning something about Frangipani so I tried growing some the other month. When our neighbor who came over to help us with something, he mentioned that where I am now people use frangipani as flowers for the dead!  Apparently they make wreaths out of the flowers and put them in tombstones. Anyway I'm keeping them since the cuttings have rooted and are showing tiny little flower buds. Will just have to put the pots someplace where visitors can't see them as it might upset them. |
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Post by Cherry on Jan 26, 2012 9:26:46 GMT
How absolutely gorgeous Jrae. I think they could be a real favourite of mine. I have candles shaped like Frangipani, small shaped soaps and artificial ones which get floated in water. I love Frangipani. My brother grafts different colours together, but I still love the creamy one.
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Post by jrae on Jan 29, 2012 11:46:24 GMT
All of my cuttings keep giving me small flowers, I mean they won't stop flowering instead of growing bigger. Am I overfeeding it? I water once a week with watered down (leftover) orchid feed.
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Post by Cherry on Jan 29, 2012 13:51:24 GMT
I don't know Jrae, but you should not have to use too much feed. I would think anything you throw at the ground would grow.
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Post by jrae on Jul 4, 2012 15:29:33 GMT
I'm about to go broke, next weekend I'll be visiting Heliconia Paradise Philippines Nursery to look at all the gingers, heliconias and frangipanis for sale ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Cherry on Jul 4, 2012 15:43:11 GMT
How lovely. Please take note of the Frangipanis and see if there are any new ones. My daughter loves her gingers. This will be the place to find out about feeding too.
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Post by steve on Jul 4, 2012 16:03:16 GMT
Sounds like an Italian bread to me ;D
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Post by grindle on Jul 4, 2012 17:12:35 GMT
;D enjoy yourself (I'm sure you will of course)
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Post by Cherry on Jul 4, 2012 18:46:22 GMT
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Post by Rosie on Jul 4, 2012 19:09:43 GMT
That does sounds a lovely place to go but i would be scared of bankrupting us ;D
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Post by jrae on Jul 6, 2012 9:37:47 GMT
I get an under construction message Cherry but I've bookmarked it  I've been their nursery in Thailand when we flew there for a friend's wedding. My husband still remembers having to drag me back to the hotel before I spend most of the money we had with us at that time. I spend a whole day camping out at the post office when the whole box of rooted plants and tubers arrived after that as I didn't know that even hobbyists needed a permit to import too I only had a phytosanitary certificate. I'm going to look up grafting them Cherry and see if I can do it as the only successful grafts I've done so far is on mango trees ;D |
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Post by Cherry on Jul 6, 2012 10:34:30 GMT
That does sound great fun Jrae. I was looking up other frangipani sites and found one which gave exact directions on taking cuttings, bag cuttings and grafting. It made me want to do it, but we are not in frangipani territory.
I checked it out again just now and it did not want me to enter, but when I went into the site as referred from somewhere else it was fine. It is the Frangipani Society of Australia.
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Apparently they make wreaths out of the flowers and put them in tombstones. Anyway I'm keeping them since the cuttings have rooted and are showing tiny little flower buds. Will just have to put the pots someplace where visitors can't see them as it might upset them. 
I've been their nursery in Thailand when we flew there for a friend's wedding. My husband still remembers having to drag me back to the hotel before I spend most of the money we had with us at that time. 
