September Blooms

Hi Everyone,

I thought I would post a few pics today of some of the newer plumerias blooming. I have lots of inflo's still coming in, including five five-year-old seedlings which will be blooming for the first time. Inflo's are coming in on Dwarf Richard Criley Rainbow, Kimi Moragne, Kimo, Muang Phuang Roi, Pink Pansy, and some other exciting ones.

This first one is P. alba, a lovely cultivar sent to me by my dear friend Kukiat in Thailand. The fragrance is postively honeysuckle to my nose.

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Here's another species, P. bahamaensis, a fabulous fragrance also.

Many people think P. obtusa 'Singapore' is a species, but it is actually a hybrid. Talk about a fabulous fragrance. I love this one.

'Pacific Pearl' you've already seen from me, but it is too magnificent not to post again.

'Hurricane' is looking light in color with the red pigment gone, but it just hasn't been hot enough here to bring out that color. It is still terrific.

'Intense Rainbow' blooms every year. It's fragrance is bitter peach to me, but its colors really are intense.

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'Barry's True Orange' has two inflo's and really is orange.

'Teresa Wilder' is one of my favorites, and I am so thankful to have received this one from our beloved FlyboyFL.

Lastly, an ugly seedling. Oh, well! It happens. More later!

Great as always how cool is that for those seedlings to bloom for the first time. And a double inflo! Inflos coming here slow but sure. I don't know if I could wait 5 yrs.

Hello Clare...Awesome pictures, the intense rainbow really is intense, and the Teresa Wilder is so vibrant it looks fake. I kinda like your ugly seedling. Can't wait to see the one you have been waiting five years for...I hope its a keeper.
Davie

Thanks, Dana and Davie! Yeah, seedlings require so much patience and care, but the reward can be worth it. I just found another inflo on another seedling so that makes six that I'm waiting on that are five years old. I don't know why so many wait until the end of the season to bloom. It is starting to get cooler here already unfortunately. I may have to set up the greenhouses early this year so that I can see those inflo's, but most of them are fairly large so getting them in a greenhouse will be tough. We need about a month or two more of heat, I think, in order to see these bloom.

Here's 'Barry's Tricolor' that I just took. The first one is doing an anomaly thing that is pretty cool.

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This is a five-year-old seedling that is blooming for the second time. It bloomed originally at three years old.

Very cool anomaly.
I am finding the same thing Clare...all my seedlings seem to bloom at the end of the growing season. The few that I had flower last season flowered in the greenhouse over winter because they started very late in the fall.

Hi Davie! Yeah, that seems to be the trend with seedlings here too, but I think it can turn around in subsequent years because I had a couple bloom nicely mid-season this year after blooming late last year or the year before. I just watched the weather report, and we're in for some more heat so that is good news.

Oh that is interesting because I have abunch of seedlings with inflos too at this time of year.... I wonder what causes that. Must ask Luc.

Great pictures Clare and I really like your ugly seedling too. Send it over!! LOL

Beautiful pictures as always Clare.

Dee

I wonder if it has to do with when the seeds were planted. All of mine that are flowering were planted in the spring of 06, making them over two years old. What I am wondering is...if I had planted the same lot of seeds in the winter instead of spring, would they have flowered in the spring two and a half years later? Does that make any sense?
Davie

Thanks, Hetty and Dee.

Hetty, I would love to know what you find out from Luc as to why seedlings tend to flower late in the season. That's interesting that you are seeing the same thing.

Hi Davie, most of my older seedlings were planted in the winter in December of 2003. I guess that makes them almost five year olds. LOL! I've had a few flower in winter before in the greenhouse. Reds tend to start late for me too. I don't have to set up a greenhouse here really, but if I want to see those late inflo's bloom, then I do have to set up the greenhouses. Sometimes a cultivar will hold its inflo throughout the winter and then start to bloom again in spring, but sometimes it will yellow and drop off from the cold. It's a pain to set up the greenhouses, but when you've been waiting five years for something to bloom, it's a must.

Well there goes that theory...LOL

LOL! It was a good theory!