Here It Is ..
About one month after my wife first noticed this strange thing happening with our Plumeria plant. We quickly figured out that it was going to bloom. Needless to say, we got very excited about this whole event. Well like I said, that was about a month ago, and the initial excitement slowly dwindled as it seemed nothing big was happening.
A photo from July 30th, 2020
Sure, I kept a close eye on it for a few weeks, then I forgot about it. You may have read a few days ago .. The Summer Of 1992 and Part One of Our Mini Vacations
.. we went on vacations and work got crazy, so time flew by. Also, I did not blog about it, but Molly had an accident and pretty much tore out one of her toenails. We rushed her to the vet, who ended up doing nothing but recommending we care for it and keep an eye on it. It worked out. She is doing better and is one of the fastest dogs on three legs I have ever seen. hehe. She hobbled around and got a bit of extra attention.
I'll just insert a cute picture of Molly here and spare you the gory photo of the bloody dog paw (no thanks needed.. lol)
Sooo... time passed, vacations came and went, and Molly was healing. All the while, right under our noses, the Plumeria was busy doing her thing. We almost didn't notice her blooming beauty! What a crisis that would have been. Luckily on watering day we noticed the blooms and the excitement returned full force!!
Here it still sits among her friends. I had all the intentions of re-potting it and placing it out doors. Too busy and never happened. This fall.. it's on the list!
They are a beautifully painted in a multiple shade of yellow. Just how I remembered seeing them in Hawaii, spiraling petals giving off a light sweet scent. The flowers are darker in the center and sort of fade out to a lighter shade of yellow at the tips. Below is a few photos of one of the flowers that I found on the floor today.
Go ahead and lean in and smell them.. They smell awesome! If you can't smell anything, just spritz your screen with a perfume! There.. Problem solved!! hehe
Because the plant sits by the rear sliding door and the sun shines brightly through it, all of the flowers, the stems, and the leaves bend that direction. I always mean to turn the plants every time we water, but who has time for that??!! haha. I do occasionally turn it, but it does not take too long and it's right back to looking like this.
Let me turn the plant around for you so that it doesn't look one sided and lopsided.
There are approximately seven flowers in full open bloom and roughly another four or five getting ready to pop open. They are packed in there tighter than I was thinking they would be, making it hard to count them. Why am I counting them? I have no clue than to fill in my readers with this useless information.
If I look past the beautiful yellow flowers, I see that there are many more buds developing back there. For some reason I was under the assumption that this bloom would happen all at once and be over and done before long. I was pleasantly surprised that this was not the case and that I am in fact WRONG! Boy do I hope that the wife doesn't read that one. She'll be marking that down on the calendar as the day I admitted I was wrong and didn't know something.. hehe.
I am glad I was wrong in my assumption. I am looking forward to as many fragrant blooms as she wants to provide to our eyes and noses. I suppose that's about all I have to tell you about, as far as the Plumeria plant is concerned, so I'll sign off for now. I am sure One of the other house plants is doing something.. more to come for sure!
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“Then he dropped the paper in. We watched as the flames caught its edges and curled them into light, then blackness. The smoke that emerged was a blue so clear it surpassed the sky, the water, my father's eyes. And then, the fragrance. It was big and full, shimmering with a strength its scent-paper had never had. This was no brief window into a world. This was the thing itself. I closed my eyes and the cabin walls vanished. I could smell the sweet spice of just-cut grass, and a sparkling conversation of flowers- lush and creamy, sharp and quick, dusty and soft as memory itself. They came together like bird songs overlapping. There was sunshine, pulling out the fragrances with its warmth. I could feel it on my skin, surrounding me in a way the heat of our woodstove never could. I stood in the middle of it all, inhaling. I had never felt so full of anything before.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper
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Lovely flowers! Strange plant though... Very thin and tall!
Yeah.. it's a bit strange to me as well. @hidave knows a lot about them and explained that it will most likely branch off near the site of the blooms. We'll keep our eye on it and see. Maybe it won't be as weird then. Although it always appeared cactus like to me and may still even after it branches off.
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Beautiful bloom indeed, perfume obviously soft on the breeze.
Good to hear Molly was not badly injured.
I am SO glad to see her doing better. Thank you for the concern 😊 We had the plant for a good while, so it was nice to see a little action. Thanks for the support!
Very nice looking plumeria. We have one that is getting ready to bloom as well. It went several years without blooming, just growing bigger, but we have had several blooms on it since then. I am looking forward to the current flowers emerging.
Poor baby!!! That is a huge ouchie and I am glad she is feeling a little better!
Oh, you have frangipani! I never even thought about getting one, but, the perfume is absolutely sinful! I love seeing them grow in the wild. It is like watching flamingos flying overhead in the wild, looks cool and yet, so bizarre!
Hey, Brad! Hope all is well in your world!
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I know.. she is much much better now. Pepper on the other hand had to go to the emergency hospital this morning because he stopped eating and drinking and is lethargic. Hopefully it's nothing major, although we understand he is pushing 15 now. Fingers crossed for him. Other than that stuff and Covid throwing a wrench into the business world, we have been getting bye just fine. Great to see you again!
Oh, no!! I am so sorry! Thoughts and a little prayer for Pepper!
Oh, COVID! Pretty soon I am just going to walk off onto vacation. This is really getting old! Good to see you too!
What a nice surprise, and it smells beautiful too! Hope the puppy paw heals quickly...
Thank you 😁 She looks pretty good so far.
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Oh. I do so love useless information! I not only curate it, I collect it!
Your Plumeria is not only beautiful, your photographs have added to it's beauty.
Thank you for a great portrayal of exotic flora!
Hahaha 😆 What can I say.. I like to count things. Maybe I have a touch of Autism .. I may be on the spectrum. That's cool if so. Thank you for the uplifting comment. I really need a new phone or have to break out my good camera for some of these photos. It's so easy to just use the phone anymore.
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I know, huh. My poor Nikon is nothing but a paperweight around here most of the time. In the time it takes to get it out I can have taken the photograph I want and have moved on to something else. My phone takes perfectly adequate photos and I can crop as needed to adjust the framing.
amen to that! I agree. Easy to post them right to the blog too.
Aw, poor poochy. Glad she's feeling better.
You know, I get that same sense of excitement every time I manage to revive my clover from the brink of death. That's a nice looking bloom!
Thank you! Clover?? Do you have a house plant of clover? I want to see that! Cool 😎
Molly is doing much better thank goodness. We always tend to worry over her. She has so many health problems as it is.
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Beautiful! You sure have the corner on the green thumb!
Thank you. Not sure, but I must be doing something right 😁
Glad you didn't miss it with all the sidetracking. The flowers are truly gorgeous and I wish I could smell them. Are those the flowers that Hawaiians use to make a Lei?
hehe.. yup almost missed them. I can bottle some of the scent and ship it out for ya 😉
Yup! These are one of the flowers in a traditional Lei.
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And finally, the blooms came! 😊 Seeing flowers bloom is a lot of joy for me. They will always appear so beautiful as this one you have here.
Ooh, and sorry about Molly. It nice to see the cutie dog is getting better each day.
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Yes! Blooms are here!! Thank you for the support and comment. Molly is doing better for sure. poor thing :-/
They're so beautiful! Spritz the screen with perfume lol that was a good one! I'm happy that Molly healed, it must have hurt to have that paw in trouble
Haha 😆 Hope you didn't take that goofy advice. Molly is doing better. Her nail is sticking weirdly upward now and you can still see scab around it. She lifts it up still in the yard when running around, but I am sure she'll be as good as new eventually.
Who knows maybe in the future with AI maybe we will have basic smells incorporated into our phones and actualy be able to sniff posts hhahaha, wouldn't that be something?
Glad to hear that Molly's pedicure is getting better hahha
Wow, those flowers are lovely, and your dog it´s so cute!!
Thank you! 😁 We think she is too but we are biased hehe. It's hard not to adore a 7 pound dog.. hehe.
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True, i have one to... she is a mix of a poodle with a yorkie... totally adorable.
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What an interesting shape of flower. Never seen one of those
When we travel to the tropics, we see them mostly there. Tons of them in Hawaii. They really do smell wonderful.
That really is a gorgeous bloom. Lucky you! Glad Molly is healing well.
Thank you! much better she is 😊
Love that quote.. deep, but loving it. I have been reading a little of 'The Scent Keeper' on line and have fallen in love with it. I am wanting to buy a hard copy so I can really feel the words.. if that make any sense. haha.
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Flowers are really very beautiful.
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Nice! Beautiful yellow colour. Bet they smell divine! Really nice inflo especially for the size. And next season you'll have a nice branching from where the flowers came out and possibly two flower spikes!
I can only hope so. That would be awesome. I remember you say that that may happen. Time will tell. I'll keep you posted. 😊
Sometimes they don't but more often than not they do. You'll know if thats going to happen ir not in a month or so. Congrats again on a stunning beauty.
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