Texas Gardening: Plumeria blooms in November:), 0 by salvia_lover

salvia_lover wrote:
Import laws are very very restrictive. In fact, importing almost any seed or live plant is illegal. If you get a pack of sunflower seeds in the mail from your mother, for example, it will likely get confiscated. If you get a box of them, YOU will likely get confiscated LOL. A person can apply for a permit to import something but for the average gardener that's waaaaayyyyyy too cost prohibitive. A permit costs neary as much as my entire garden collection cost! And it takes months to get an approval IF you do eventually get one. It's just a hassle and expensive and really only for big garden centers who plan on importing a lot of a particular plant.....or for someone who has time and money on his/her hands and is completely obsessed about acquiring something unusual ROTFL!

Growing conditions really depend on where in Israel. Our winters where I live (halfway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem) are a bit wet and cool for the Plumerias, but they survive and then thrive on the hot summers, so long as they get regular water. My entire garden is hooked up to a computer controlled drip system, so there's no such thing as forgetting to water the plants. The only things I have to water myself are all of my succulents in my collection on the back patio. But that's just once a week and they are all located in the same place....so no big deal.

Back to Plumerias...;-)....We only have two varieties generally offered here at garden centers. They don't even offer cultivar names for them. Just Plumeria alba for the white and Plumeria something else for the red one ;-). I'd love to go to a Plumeria sale where I could see a lot of varieties in person. Of course, I'm allergic to practically everything that produces pollen (kind of a silly problem to have for someone who is so enamoured with gardening isn't it!), so at such a sale I'd probably need to wear my gas mask. ROTFL!

Here's a pic I took of one of my Plumeria blooms on November 18th:

-Julie