Oh, I do love that sort of dusky pink one in your first picture, Gigi.

Elaine, the color of this one changes a lot around this time of the year. The one below that is the bloom of the Momma plumeria and on Halloween the dusky pink (MMR) was looking like this:



What I like about this particular variety is this is also very fragrant and the blooms are large.

Gigi: Oooh, I like that first Plumie but I really love that NOID Red!! I cut a large branch from my one and only plumeria tree yesterday and left it on the back porch to dry. I need advice for next year when we move ... I'd planned to dig up the big plant and put it in the ground at our new house but is there any way to keep that awful rust from attacking them? I hate using chemicals but I really, really don't want to not have a Plumeria and yet I detest that ugly rust which seems to blow off like orange powder if you barely touch a leaf. I plan to plant them on our property in an area outside the fence where the dog can't get to so if I need to spray with a fungicide I will do it if it will take care of the rust. Question is, how often and what time of year do you spray?

I was out in the yard early this morning and spotted buds on a Hoya australis hanging in the tree and look forward to that heavenly fragrance! Also noticed Spathoglottis still blooming, Forked Blue Curls has been full of blooms for a month or so and the Cape Honeysuckle is in bloom:



A few other things still hanging on. Tropical Milkweed, Allamanda, Crossandra and Marigolds:



Thunbergia battiscombei, Ruellia ciliosa, Beach Sunflowers and Hibiscus

Lin, those are gorgeous flowers and variety you have as well. I like that Spag a lot. I saw that in Lowe's... Hmmm I might have to go back.

I'm really bad, I don't spray my plumerias at all. I don't think the plummie experts has found cure for the ugly rust. There are plummie varieties now that are rust resistant.

Gigi, Spag?? Do you mean the Spathoglottis? That one is Ground Orchid (Spathoglottis 'Berry Banana') I got it a few years ago from either Home Depot or Lowes. I'd love to find more of them in the Sorbet series. I used to have Ground Orchid (Spathoglottis 'Citrus Cooler') but I'm not sure it's still alive out there in the jungle of my yard.

I will definitely have to look for some of the rust resistant varieties of Plumeria!! I've had this one Plumie for about 8 years and it never had issues with rust until last year.

Lin, I agree with Gigi that there is no good solution for the rust problem on plumeria. Except! I have one in the back yard that gets a lot more rust than another one in the front yard. The only difference I can see (as they both get the same amount of neglect from me) is air circulation. The front bed outside our high fence gets a nice breeze along the street in the afternoons. It's even (sometimes, almost) cool enough to work out there in the afternoons in summer, thanks to the breeze.

So, just look at planting it out somewhere that the breeze blows really well in the afternoons, and that will dry off the leaves from summer rains. Then you MUST restrain yourself from planting tall stuff around it . . . . I pay little attention to the beds out front, and that's the only reason that plumie has lots of space around it still. The Spanish needles all around it aren't tall enough to impede the breeze . . .

The other thing to do is, when you visit the plant, be brutal about 'housekeeping' - take off any leaves with rust on them and put them in the trash so the spores don't spread. If you let those leaves fall to the ground, tons of spores fly.

Thanks Elaine! The plant is in the ground with nothing around it so there's great air circulation but many leaves have fallen to the ground and I notice when I do touch a leaf to remove it, that orange rust floats around like a powder!! I just thought it was so weird that I've had this plant for 6 or 7 years and never had any rust issues until last summer. At our house down south I'm going to be limited for open, sunny locations so I do hope I can find a spot for it, if not my sister might want it because they have a lot of sun on their property. I gave her about eight or ten plumeria cuttings last year and she kept them in pots for a long time and planted them in her backyard this past spring but she put them right up beside the house so they haven't grown much or bloomed yet. I keep telling her they need to be out in full sun ... I'll have to ask the next time I talk to her whether she ever moved them.

Oops Lin, yes that's what I mean. I meant to shorten it to "Spath" coz I'm lazy... I went to our Lowe's yesterday and I didn't see them. They had an orangey color and purplish one last summer for only $6.99 in a decent size pot.

I have tons of rust too because of our record rain. I used to "harvest" all the rusty leaves but this time of year when there is not much leaves I just let them go or I will have all bald plumerias.

Here's a couple of Plumerias that are blooming at MOSI.

Hi, I'm new to the forum, but wanted to share my hibiscus bloom. This particular shrub doesn't bloom often, but when it does, it's pretty spectacular. Wish I had kept the tag - I can't remember the name of this one.

to ATP Ibis. That is a spectacular flower for sure.

Hi Ibis, You will love this site! Wow, that is one beautiful Hibiscus bloom!

IbisFla - I agree that it is a stunning bloom.

Hi and welcome to ATP Ibis!

That bloom is breathtaking. To me, it should be named Tropicana.

Ibis! That is a gorgeous hibiscus!

Melanie it is so nice seeing plumeria blooms around this time of the year. The top one reminds me of my mini-white plumeria.

Ibis and I agree that is a beautiful hibiscus!

Melanie, I bet the fragrance at MOSI is wonderful with those gorgeous Plumeria blooms!

Ibis, I bet someone over on the Hibiscus Forum http://garden.org/forums/view/... might recognize that beautiful bloom and be able to give you a name!

Lin, there was a small green spider in the multi-color Plumeria bloom so I kept my sniffing to a minimum. But they did both have a great fragrance!

Ibis! This is a great place to make friends and learn lots of stuff!

I agree, that is a gorgeous hibiscus!

And it can lead to plant-addiction. Ask me how I know.