HAPPY EASTER TO ALL. Are those all in bloom now, Hetty?

I left all my potted plumeria out last night and it got down to 42F. I just decided they all would have to sink or swim. I think they swam. Everything looks good this AM. I think that is the last night/early AM in the 40's so now the rest of my bromeliads, fiddle leaf ficus, staghorns, and the first batch of orchids start going out today.

Carter No. 2 is a tree. Love to see it with its bouquets. Yes Ken, those and a few more are in bloom now. Here is Kathleen Rose which I just spotted also.

I am so enjoying y'alls beautiful Plumeria bloom photos; I'd love to have a garden full of Plumeria trees! My one and only Plumeria is planted in the ground and it's just starting to leaf out. We were very fortunate to have a super mild winter this year with only one night of a very light frost. Next year we are moving a bit farther south in the state (Sebastian, Fl) where we recently purchased another home and I will dig up my Plumeria tree and take it with me. The property there is mostly shade but I'm sure I can find a spot with a bit of sun for the Plumie ... if not I will cut something down to make a sunny spot for it. These are photos from last summer; if I remember correctly I think it was identified as 'Intense Rainbow':

Beautiful Hetty, yours and Joana usually starts the plummie season blooms early. Robert is another one who usually have early beautiful blooms.

Lin that is beautiful, I will dig it up too if that is mine. I know I told my hubby if we ever have to move, he better find a place where I can continue to grow my plummies, orchids and succulents.

LOL, yep ... my Plumeria tree is going with me when we move, along with a Foxtail Palm that I plan to dig up.

Yacht Club Rainbow - pictures taken this evening, one with flash and one without.

Oooh, very pretty!

My 2 white pudica are unusually slow to start. There was some rot that I had to cut off. I surely hope they recover. They really put on a show! The Pink pudica never lost all it's leaves but it too hasn't showed signs of new leaves yet.

The orange NOID that produced flowers all winter seems to be resting now. Despite fertilizing, the leaves are not a pretty color.

The others are waking up slowly. They seem to need adjustment time outside the greenhouse with the temperatures were constant. Now they are out, they have to deal with fluctuations but at least nothing below 60º F. Two of the tallest trees are still in the GH waiting for my energy to be up enough to bring them out. One of them has 2 sets of seed pods.

Thanks for the update Cheryl. Here some are also still fast asleep while others are already in full leaf and bloom. Like people, they each have their own rhythm.

Trees are just taking their time in leafing right now -- one more than the other. When I get blooms I will post so perhaps you, Hetty, will be able to help identify for me.

beautiful blooms Hetty!

I'm sure you serious plumeria growers have heard of Jim Little, who is a grower in Hawaii. A couple of days ago on our way back from a gardening class, a friend and I stopped in Goodwill. ( I have issues with this place - everything is overpriced). Anyway, I bought a book (soft-bound , $1.99). The title is "Growing Plumerias in Hawai'i and Around the World", by Jim Little. It's a second edition, third printing in 2008 -- so not that old.
I've never visited Hawaii, but a paragraph in the book was a very sad statement of how some people can be. Perhaps some of these nurseries are allowing visitors again, but I'd like to share this excerpt from the book with you anyway.

"Valuable collections have also experienced thefts ranging from "just a cutting" to whole trees. Additionally, agriculture theft and crime cost Hawaii farm producers $11.4 million in 2004. This has prompted some farms and nurseries to discontinue hosting visitors. Total security to prevent theft and/or vandalism to equipment amounted to $7.4 million for all farms."

Further on in the book, he mentions Koko Head Botanical Garden, where some of the plumeria trees were over 40 years old. He adds: "A word of caution: some accession tags that once properly identified the trees have either been switched or stolen and names of the various trees cannot be relied upon".

I found this just awful. I remember going on a garden club tour, locally, a couple of years ago. I knew the lady and she told me that she no longer opened her garden to the "public" (there are a couple of benefits every year which would allow the public to come to your garden); because the previous year, she was convinced, someone had obviously gone on the tour, saw and coveted her beautiful plumeria in her front yard and that night it was dug up ! So, this is why I also don't do the benefit tours of my garden and will only allow a few garden clubs to come -- as I know a lot of these members.

While I'm on this rather unpleasant subject; let me share something else with you. The Executive Director of Leu Gardens (a beautiful botanical garden in Orlando) had always allowed visitors to ask staff members if they could have a cutting; or if they were with a garden group to take some cuttings from the back of the beds. He was very proud of the fact that he believed Leu Gardens was the only place in the US that allowed this. Well, it stopped a couple of years ago. Some idiotic, moronic woman posted on social media that you could "help yourself". He said that literally dozens of people came and went crazy, actually pulling up plants. They had to summon the ground staff to boot these people out of the gardens ! I heard this at one of the classes I take every year at the University of Florida in Gainesville (to keep up with continuing education hours as a MG); and for a few seconds you could have heard a pin drop, before the class erupted in disgusted groans.

I found a picture of one of the flowers on my plumeria tree, taken perhaps two years ago. Do you have any idea Hetty, what this one is called ? I will take more photos this year!

That's really sad Elfie that plant lovers would result to theft to improve their collection. I read a member here complain that some of their plumerias were stolen too from their front yard.

I hope that it is not going to happen to my plant collection.

I had a fairly major theft from my collection in 2008. I know I was targeted. It is sad.

Elfie I tend not to identify from a single picture of a flower. There are too many other things that play a role. When you have more pictures please post them and I'll take a stab at it!

That is sad, Elfie. In my humble opinion the world has gotten more dangerous and we Americans less honest/ethical and more downright nasty. It is very sad that people with wonderful gardens or just wonderful plants can't tend those gardens or grow those plants without fear of damage or theft.

My three original plumeria, the Celadine, Scott Pratt, and Vera Cruz Rose, brought back from Maui as finger-size, 6" long cuttings, will celebrate their 30th birthdays in May. My first two seedlings, germinated in December, 2013, are still growing like crazy and one of them is not only 4' tall but about 2" in diameter. Even though it is only 1 1/2 years old, I just have a feeling that it is going to fool everyone and bloom this year. I know, I know, just wishful thinking.

Dutchlady1 said:I had a fairly major theft from my collection in 2008. I know I was targeted. It is sad.

Elfie I tend not to identify from a single picture of a flower. There are too many other things that play a role. When you have more pictures please post them and I'll take a stab at it!

Will do Hetty -- thanks.

And my first bloom is..."Aussie Pink", it is an Australian Variety that is supposed to be a prolific bloomer.

Very pretty, Gigi.