The Plumeria Blooms Snuck Up On Me!

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!

Thank you for swinging by my blog and checking out the post. Have a great day!

“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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