Just Plumerias in the News - Orlando Sentinel

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03f285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B> www.JustPlumerias.com </B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" www.JustPlumerias.com "><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="plumeria___growers_of__plumeria_cuttings_and_flowers__frangipani.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Plumeria Hybrids Lanis Beauty Plumeria,"><U>Plumeria Hybrids - Lani's Beauty Plumeria, Apricot Plumeria, Nebel's Rainbow Plumeria, Candy Stripe Plumeria</U></A>   |   <A HREF="plumeria___plumerias___plumeria_trees_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Plumeria Description"><U>Plumeria Description</U></A>   |   <A HREF="plumeria_rooting_instructions.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Plumeria Rooting Instructions"><U>Plumeria Rooting Instructions</U></A>   |   <A HREF="ordering_information_page.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Ordering Information for plumer"><U>Contact & Ordering Information for plumeria and plumerias</U></A>   |   <A HREF="raised_tiles.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hand Painted Raised Tiles "><U>Hand Painted Raised Tiles   </U></A>   |   <A HREF="pictures_of_plumeria.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pictures of Plumeria and Plumeria Cuttin"><U>Pictures of Plumeria and Plumeria Cuttings</U></A>   |   <B>Just Plumerias in the News - Orlando Sentinel</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="03ed2c00dkelyh.png"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Just Plumerias in the News - Orlando Sentinel</I></div> <div> Plumerias Aplenty</div> <bR> <div> <B>The brightly colored and fragrant flowers can grow anywhere in the world.</B></div> <bR> <div> By Tom Maccubbin, Special to the Sentinel </div> <bR> <div> Treat yourself to a bit of the tropics by adding exotic plumerias to the home landscape. Mild winters in recent years have allowed the burly shrub-to-tree-size plants to flourish and open their brightly colored clusters of fragrant blossoms during the warmer months.</div> <div> Perhaps one of your first encounters with plumeria flowers was during a trip to Hawaii when you were greeted with a colorful bloom-filled lei. If you were a typical tourist, you probably brought home one of the plump greenish sticklike cuttings to root in a pot of soil or in the ground.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="1e740c80.jpg" border=0 width="320" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> "I'm amazed it ever grew," says Jeanette Burford of Winter Park, whose husband, Scott, brought her a plumeria stem from Hawaii in 1994.</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >After sprouting green leaves, the cutting eventually grew into a 14-foot container specimen of the yellow-flowered Celadine variety, a popular selection sporting a strong, citruslike fragrance. This one plant was also the beginning of their Just Plumerias nursery, which sells plants to gardeners through the Internet at</FONT><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" www.JustPlumerias.com "><U><B> www.JustPlumerias.com </B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >plus at theme parks, all the Florida Plant shows and the Winter Park Farmer's Market for the last 10 years.</FONT></div> <div> "All are so unique, and there are so many different fragrances," says Burford. She notes their popularity also might be because of the long flowering period April through November; plus, they are extremely drought tolerant.</div> <div> Most landscapes should have room for one or more plumeria plantings available in an assortment of sizes, ranging from dwarfs less than 6 feet tall to treelike forms reaching 30 feet. Most grow to their full potential when planted in the ground, but remain smaller when raised in containers.</div> <bR> <div> An addiction will grow.</div> <bR> <div> Gardeners are sure to appreciate all the plumeria blooms with scents that can include gardenia, coconut and cinnamon fragrances. You probably also have to admit the plants are unusual too.</div> <div> "The bold greenish-gray trunks add an architectural feature to the landscape," say Eric Patz of Orlando, an Orange County master gardener who remembers plants growing around the family home for about 18 years. "I like their form when they lose their leaves; they become monsterlike plants."</div> <bR> <div> The craze is growing, too</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1de77710.jpg" border=0 width="119" height="113" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Most commonly grown plumerias have large leaves growing to 2 feet long and 6 inches wide. The veins are pronounced, and the leaves have a medium- to deep-green color. Locally, all plants drop their leaves and go through a period of dormancy during the fall or early winter months when temperatures drop to around 50 degrees. Patz says when they are planted near a patio, many grow tall enough to give shade during the summer months and allow the warming sun through for winter.</div> <bR> <div> the warm winters persist, the interest in plumerias is expected to continue. Many gardeners are adding plants as a backdrop for perennial gardens, installing them along walkways and using them as accents near patios. They are also being grown in containers for deck and balcony displays.</div> <div> "We have been going through a plumeria craze the last few years," Most likely, it's because gardeners did not know they are so easy to grow."</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="ordering_information_page.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Ordering Information for plumer"><U><B>Contact & Ordering Information for plumeria and plumerias</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.tcpalm.com/photos/2011/aug/01/322589/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.tcpalm.com/photos/2011/aug/01"><U><B>Port St. Lucie Plant Show</B></U></A></div> <div> PORT ST. LUCIE - Scott Burford of Just Plumerias talks to a crowd about the ease of planting and growing plumerias on Saturday morning during the Bamboo and More Plant Sale at the Port St. Lucie Botanical Gardens. </div> <div> <IMG SRC="1f45fb10.jpg" border=0 width="607" height="433" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div>     <I><B>Plumeria</B></I> (common name <B>Frangipani</B>)  contains 7-8 species of mainly deciduous shrubs and small trees. They are native to <U>Mexico</U>, <U>Central America</U>, the <U>Caribbean</U>, and <U>South America</U> as far south as <U>Brazil[]</U> but have been spread throughout the world's tropics and have become the Hawaiian Lei Flower Plant.</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="373" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="369"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="369" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <I>Plumeria</I> flowers are most fragrant at night. <I>Plumeria</I> species may be easily <U>propagated</U> from cuttings of leafless stem tips . Cuttings are allowed to dry at the base before planting in well-drained soil. Pruning is best accomplished in the winter for deciduous varieties, or when cuttings are desired.</div> <div> There are more than 300 named varieties of Plumeria.</div> <bR> <div> Just Plumerias carries some of the most sought after hybrids.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="plumeria___growers_of__plumeria_cuttings_and_flowers__frangipani.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Plumeria Hybrids Lanis Beauty Plumeria,"><U><B>Click here for the list of plumeria hybrids.</B></U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> The genus, originally spelled <I>Plumiera</I>, is named in honor of the seventeenth-century French botanist <U>Charles Plumier</U>, who traveled to the New World documenting many plant and animal species. The common name "Frangipani" comes from an <U>Italian</U> <U>noble family</U>, a sixteenth-century <U>marquess</U> who invented a plumeria-scented <U>perfume</U>. Many English speakers also simply use the generic name "plumeria". In Hawaii, the name is "melia". In Sri Lanka, it is referred to as <I>araliya</I> and (in English) as the <I>Temple Tree</I>. In Cantonese it is known as, 'gaai daan fa' or the 'egg yolk flower' tree.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>