Many plants are shrivelling up and dying in the heat and drought here in Cape Town at the moment, but my frangipani continues to bloom beautifully, regardless.
Every year in January this massive bush unfurls new pink flowers, wafting an exotic scent on the evening breeze.
You can read more about my frangipani here.
The frangipani are so beautiful – thanks for sharing. I have just started a poetry blog here on WordPress and today’s poem is about the fragrance of a Spring evening in case you have time to look? Have a good day, Sam 🙂
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Thank you very much. 🙂
I have visited your blog and followed. 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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time to tuck blooms behind my ear…beautiful pics…So lovely, I wish I could notice them!..
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haha Thank you 🙂
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What the!!! that is so beautiful I’m in love!!
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haha Thank you! 🙂
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time to tuck flowers behind my ear.
beautiful pics.
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haha Go for it. 🙂
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So pretty, I wish I could smell them!
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Thank you ) Yes, I tried a scratch and sniff post in the past! 😀
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Oh, the smell of Frangipani is just divine. I wish we could grow them here!
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I suppose they do not survive the snowy winters?
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Nope – like so many other plants!
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🙂
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I love these flowers, they have sweet smells! I saw a lot in Hawaii. 🙂
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Yes, I think of them as the Hawaiian flowers. 🙂
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Gorgeous!
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Thank you 🙂
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Beautiful! 🙂
We have unending rain that will not stop! We wish we could send you some!
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Thank you – I wish you could send us some rain too, but sorry for your deluge.
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Wow that is a beauty, hope it stays well 🙂
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Thank you 🙂 It is very happy! 🙂
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Good 🙂
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🙂
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It is nice to see your Frangipani again. So pretty
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Thank you very much 🙂
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Pretty! I wish we had scratch n sniff digital photos.
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haha Thank you – the scratch and sniff was in an older post. 🙂
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Gorgeous flowering tree, your frangipani!! Beautiful colours to cheer up anyone too. Wonderful! Thanks for sharing the lovely photos. 🙂
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Aw Thank you for your kind words. 🙂 I seem to share this flowering bush every year about now – but really, who wouldn’t? 😀
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Those flowers are so beautiful. I imagine they are attractive to the birds too. Do you normally have dry summers or just stuck in a nasty drought?
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I don’t usually see birds around this bush, but I read that it attracts moths at night. 🙂
Yes, we have dry summers and winter rains. The problem is that for the last two winters the rains have been way less than normal, so the dam levels are very low now. Waiting for rain in July!
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Beautiful! Very impressive, I’d love one…but I’m not a great gardener…:)
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Thank you. 🙂
My trick is – this bush was already here when we bought the house, and I have done Nothing to it! Ta Da! 😀
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Lol!! Love the gardening tip, very useful! I know that works as well..we have a large fuchsia bush that I do nothing to and it’s beautiful every year!
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haha Excellent 🙂
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Isn’t it marvelous how so many things (and people) thrive under adverse conditions? These are beautiful. I can almost smell them from here.
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Yes, it’s true. Often if you leave Nature alone it will find a way to survive. Luckily most of the plants in my garden are indigenous, so are able to withstand the dry summers.
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.. and I thought Frangipani was something you would find on a menu in an Italian restaurant! This blogging business is a real education eh! 🙂
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hahaha Good one! 😀
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Beautiful bush and flowers. 🙂
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Thank you very much. 🙂 It does brighten up my very dry garden! 🙂
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Wow!! Your Frangipani tree is beautiful! Despite the dry weather it flowers prettily and yes…the fragrant is awesome. We have these trees here but none are as pretty or as well bloomed😊
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Thank you GH 🙂 I don’t usually water this, but I am still happy to see it surviving so well in the drought. 🙂
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They still look loverly, really good wquality on the photos too! It must be difficult for some of your flowers to flourish in that heat!
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Thank you very much . 🙂 Some of my plants have died off, as water is scarce, but most of them are managing to survive. 🙂
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That’s good to hear, hopefully they’ll stay strong through the warm conditions!
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Thank you 🙂
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Those are so beautiful! I see these in girls hair often.
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Thank you 🙂
Yes, my girls used to pick a flower and put it in their hair on the way to school – but the flowers leak a very sticky white sap! I don’t know how the Hawaiian’s manage their leis!
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Sticky sap! Sounds like me! Ha ha! 😍
I bet they put some kind of powder / coagulat on it to stop it.
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I don’t know what they do to stop the white ‘glue’ but they never show it in movies etc 🙂
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