Hi! My name is Terry Jones. My wife, Debbi and I have been in love with Plumeria since the mid '90's. We have had up 200 plants and up to 32 species, but with freezes and attrition we were down to a little over 100 last year. We live in Clear Lake Texas (Between Houston and Galveston) The freezes are usually not too bad..we haven't had many after 2010, so we had many plants up around 10'...life was good. But January and February 2014 was horrific with it hitting freezing 20 times (we put everything in the ground).
We were pro-active by digging up 60 plants up to 8', cut up 40 which gave us around 200 cuttings ranging from 16"' to 6 ft tall, and tried to cover some large 10'+ plants with seed pods. We eventually lost the ones we tried to cover up. We did manage to scrape together and have 20 seedlings growing right now...so we are happy with that. The cuttings are doing good and is another long story on dealing with that many thins spring. The stumps from the 40 we cut up are currently re-sprouting and will turn into bushes.
I have turned into an avid photographer and have a lot of our stuff posted on Flickr..
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...
I was invited to come here by GigiPlumeria...I got to know her on FLickr and we have become friends through our common love...so I am excited to be here. We are not experts, but we do have a lot of "knowledge from the trenches"! haha
btw...most of our plants have came from seedlings that we grew in 2004 from a Samoan Fluff and an Aztec Gold.
As a side note...I do a lot HDR photography which gives the pictures a strange look, but allows me to express my artistic side. ;-)
Later! Terry
