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BARGAIN BEAUTIES
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This is a cheapie for the new collectors. Good old Aussie Fruit Salad, great performer, strong fruity perfume, and an amazing array of colours displayed throughout its growing season. A true chameleon and branches start from only $15.
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GAIL'S CREERY PINK
This local cultivar actually was first discovered in Mandurah in the south-west of WA by Gail Pascoe. It is guaranteed to put on a good display for you each season, and is a hardy grower. Thank you to Gail for this early image (she takes better shots than me!). Branches start from $15, depending on size.
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PLUMERIA SERICIFOLIA
Now for something completely different. Yes it IS still a frangipani, but not one of the many rubras, we've come to know and love. It is an evergreen, quick-growing, and is a bush rather than a tree. Flowers have no perfume unfortunately. Branches from $10. See the 'Evergreens' pages for better shots of these. They grow quickly and easily from tiny seeds, and slight differences will be spotted, as they mature.
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MARILYN'S POT LUCK
This is a rare beauty at the bargain basement price of $15 for this month only. It's now a huge tree, grown from a seed sent to me by my friend Marilyn, in Cooktown, and is an amazingly fast grower. It's a tri-colour with a rather nice 'cosmetics counter' sort of a perfume. I can only offer it this cheaply as I have lots and lots of branches I can now harvest from. Be quick!
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JOY'S JOY!
Here's one of our local varieties. The family of the late Joy Tilbee offered me branches from her tree, which are now trees themselves. I rooted one on for her daughter, leaving me with three trees. Such a colourful rubra, , would be an asset to any frangipani garden for sure. Perfume is quite a nice musk lolly sort of smell - you feel you could nibble a petal and go mmmhhhh!! $15 per branch for this month only. Would make a great Christmas present, as the colour is very 'Christmassy'. I do also have a few bag-rooted branches for an extra $5 each.
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CLASSIC LEMON-WHITE STUNNER
Here's another local variety that has been around in gardens forever, I think. The perfume is just stunning, and it is popular for both weddings and funerals, because petals hold their shape so well, in floral arrangements and tributes. Absolutely HUGE blooms, and this one is still the most popular overseas, for seed sales, despite me telling everyone who will listen, over and over, that seeds DO NOT reproduce their mama-tree! I send literally thousands of seeds of this beauty to the UK each year and you will find it shown on the Jungle Seeds site still, I expect. Branches cost only $15 each at the moment, and no frangipani garden should be without this classic beauty. I havent't 'bred' it but still I love it, and can't walk past it without having a good long sniff, inhaling deeply and going 'aaahhhhh' ~ you know? Big branches, only $15 (you will need to be buying a few because these branches need to be packed in a box - postal tubes won't work).
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North River Road Orange - probably DARWIN MONSOON?
Another local no-name, trees came from branches given to me by a plantation lady down the far end of North River Road. She didn't speak much English and I didn't speak much Croatian (?) but instantly whipped out her tree loppers and gave me a couple of good size branches hanging over the fence. I thanked her and drove off in my ute, cursing myself for not asking her name, so I could call it something nicer. I expect it came from a Bunnings or Mitre 10 store, once upon a time? It's nice whatever it is.... $10 a branch. Nice perfume too.
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