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Growing Frangipani's
Jan 23, 2012 | 11:52 AM PST
Tags: Frangipani , leaves , sunshine

Hi Everyone,

Friends last year, gave me a frangipani for christmas, 2010, which was lovely, but.....  Frangipani's need a lot of sun and I am not sure my backyard quite gets enough.  My friends grow several and are very successful with them.  Mine losts its leaves very late in April/May and hasn't grown new ones. A worry!!!.  It has developed a huge flower head and I hope going to flower.

It is in a pot in the sunniest spot I have in my garden, I put white stone as a mulch to keep it warm over winter and then a few weeks ago, dumped on some cow manure, because I read on a frangipani website they like cow maure. 

Well it is very deep in the pot and with the stones and cow manure the trunk was about 5-10cm covered with all this material.  BAD! stem rot, so I cleared it off last night and it still has no leaves.

I have seen my friends like this, but can't work out why it happens.

It is such a stress, if it dies I will never hear the end of it from my friends.  We are competitive and I am professionally trained and my friends are very good home gardeners.  

So at least I have fixed it is planted tooooo deeply and I wish the dammm thing would grow some leaves!!!!!

I find when I start doing lots of remedial things, it is a sign, that things aren't going to go well.

Happy gardening

Cheers Sandi