Frangipani!

[ace_and_sep]

I fell in love with plumeria trees when Andy and I visited Hawaii in 2000. They grow on all the hotel grounds there, bushy trees full of beautiful and heavily perfumed flowers.

Comments

[rustydog]

There is nothing like having a plant you've nursed for years finally bloom. SO exciting. Yay!

I've heard of the scent "plumeria" in lotions and things, but I hadn't actually thought about where it comes from. Those blossoms are pretty.

[ace_and_sep]

There's quite a few blooms open now, and they do smell like the soaps and lotions, only more...delicate.

I've been enjoying watching each bud unfurl.

--Ace

[astrablue]

Oh, yay for blossoming plumerias! I love plumerias so much - as you said, they smell divine and are gorgeous to boot. Good job with nurturing them even through the Arizona heat!

[ace_and_sep]

Thanks! It has been touch-and-go a few times, but leaving them in our back room, which has many windows and faces south, all year 'round, seems to be working well.

--Ace

[jenelope]

So pretty!

But you know, I can't see that word without thinking "Frangipani Della Squeegee Mop."

[ace_and_sep]

Google failed me! I searched for "Frangipani Della Squeegee Mop" but am no wiser.

--Ace

[jenelope]

It's a reference to Strictly Ballroom. Fran is the lead female and one of the other girls calls her Frangipani. Later in the movie, Fran refers to it as part of a put-down, Frangipani Della Squeegee Mop, so called because she cleans the floor at the dance studio. I probably misspelled it.