On one of the trips Laura and I took to Hawaii before Laura got married, she bought a Plumeria stem to plant when she got back to Minnesota. Once planted, she faithfully watered it and watched as nothing but a stick seemed to grow in the pot. We waited and watched and nothing seemed to happen. THEN . . . the stick began to grow taller and taller with lovely green leaves. Laura got married and moved to Hawaii but left the plant for me (the one who kills plants) to tend and care for. I brought it in for the winter and watered it but alas last winter all of the leaves fell off. I panicked and watched as the plant again became a stick in a pot. (Little did I know that it was suppose to do that during the winter as I found out online later.)
Spring came and brought warmer weather and I decided I would put the lovely green stick out of doors and see what would happen. After all, if it remained a green stick I would lose nothing and when it rained I wouldn't have to worry about watering the stick. WELL, as temperatures began to warm up and the stick caught the sunlight, leaves again appeared and the stick again took on life.
As the summer wore on, I began to notice a change -- there was something more than leaves growing on the plant.
WOW, did that mean I would have plumeria blooms for the first time? I watched and watched and watched and watched and it seemed to change but nothing looked to me like a bloom.
I began to loose heart and the weather began to cool. Again I was forced to bring the plant in doors to keep it out of the cold.
In late September, what should appear before my eyes but a plumeria bloom. YEAH!! It lives!!! The picture isn't very good but you can see the pretty yellow bloom (and it smells good, too).
Now my goal is to keep the stick alive until next spring to see if by chance we can get two blooms from the plant.
Maybe even split the plant and make two plants as it suggests on the information that I got from the internet.
Spring came and brought warmer weather and I decided I would put the lovely green stick out of doors and see what would happen. After all, if it remained a green stick I would lose nothing and when it rained I wouldn't have to worry about watering the stick. WELL, as temperatures began to warm up and the stick caught the sunlight, leaves again appeared and the stick again took on life. 
As the summer wore on, I began to notice a change -- there was something more than leaves growing on the plant. 
WOW, did that mean I would have plumeria blooms for the first time? I watched and watched and watched and watched and it seemed to change but nothing looked to me like a bloom.
I began to loose heart and the weather began to cool. Again I was forced to bring the plant in doors to keep it out of the cold.
In late September, what should appear before my eyes but a plumeria bloom. YEAH!! It lives!!! The picture isn't very good but you can see the pretty yellow bloom (and it smells good, too). 
Now my goal is to keep the stick alive until next spring to see if by chance we can get two blooms from the plant. 
Maybe even split the plant and make two plants as it suggests on the information that I got from the internet.
2 comments:
I want one. :)
What color?
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