The scent of Frangipani at night is a blessing in the tropics. It compensates for the humidity. June brings Bridal Bouquet Frangipani flowers and fragrance into the garden. This is not the typical Frangipani. The growth habit is columnar rather than a rounded tree form and the foliage can be semi evergreen. The foliage is also an unusual shape, called violin.
I use these as upright hedges to screen my neighbors wood fence. Some winters I see more fences than others as semi evergreen is a very good description. Come summer you can’t get much more tropical than this.
A closer view:
The white flowers are the Bridal Bouquet Frangipani (Plumeria pudica). Yellow and Red flowers are “Lady Di” Heliconias (Heliconia psittacorum). Orange flowers are from the Firebush (Hamelia patens). There is a little charteuse Coleus in the back of the vase. The vase is a large crystal wedding gift from Tiffany’s.
That’s all from my South Florida garden. I’ll be savoring the scents of summer and ignoring the weeds.
Visit Cathy’s blog to see more vases this Monday.
The Shrub Queen 
Oh my! It just keeps getting better!
Is night blooming jasmine popular there?
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Looks like a headdress worthy of Carmen Miranda! Stay cool. 🙂
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A very tropical vase. I had to look for the coleus. It seems everyone is complaining about weeds.
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My eye was particularly drawn to the foliage and then I read that it comes from a special frangipani. I love the way you have arranged the leaves giving the flowers the best of counterpoints.
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I love your Frangipani, Amelia. My (tree-form) Plumerias never put on anything like that display.
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Thanks, Kris. I wish I knew the secret!
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Wow, you continue to create beautiful, colorul arrangements. Love the foliage as a frame, too. Perfect.
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Thank you, Beth.
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The leaves of the frangipani are so gloriously green and shiny and really set off the white blooms, with the red and yellow accents emphasising just how tropical your vase is. Thanks for sharing it ps I ignore the weeds here too, most of them anyhow!
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How glorious, I can imagine how wonderful the scent it in your home!
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Very exotic and beautiful! I am not very familiar with the scent of Frangipane although I have met it on my travels. My Philadelphus is in bloom right now and I love having the scent waft in through the screen door so I know what you mean!
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Thank you. My mother had a huge Philadelphus in her garden, a wonderful memory.
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Fabulous! I didn’t realise the leaves were so shiny. And they must make a very good screen so that you don’t have to look at your nudey neighbours. Lovely tropical orange contrasts too. I love everything about the frangipani, including the name, isn’t it a lovely word?
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Thanks, Liz. The foliage on this Frangipani is different from others. Isn’t Frangipani almond filled desserts in Italy? I love the word, too.
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Yes, it is marzipan, yummy.
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Thank goodness there are people still blogging, because yours is the blog I need. I’m a relatively new gardener in St. Petersburg. I found you by searching for info on building/rejuvenating shell driveways. A partial answer to your question about why they’re not popular any more is that many municipalities made them illegal at some point in the past 20 years, with some exceptions for grandfathering. It may have been an issue with maintenance and/or to prevent “yard parking.” It’s ridiculous – why not allow people to use a local, natural, permeable material instead of concrete or concrete pavers that dump runoff straight into the storm sewers? Anyway, I look forward to reading lots more of your blog!
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Hi! thank you and welcome to Florida. When we first moved someone told me to throw the gardening books away – this is good advice! The county actually would not allow us to pour a concrete driveway, so it was shell or gravel.
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On our last trip to Florida we were in an area where this was pretty common. I couldn’t understand how everyone was able to walk by and not stop to take in the scent when they walked by, plus it was so pristine white even while the heat and humidity sapped the life out of me! A hedge full of this sounds perfect.
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It’s common here, very easy to grow and propagate. The scent is better at night.
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Wow, the flowers are lovely but that foliage is really striking. Love it! Enjoy that perfume. (And ignoring the weeds sounds like a good idea. ) 😃
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Thanks, Cathy. I agree about the foliage. Most Plumeria foliage is unremarkable and gets rust diseases.
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I agree with Cathy, the flowers are gorgeous but the leaves are truly awesome, almost stealing the show. I’m mad about scented plants and wish I could grow it.
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Thank you. The foliage is superior to other varieties of Plumerias.
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