Evergreen Frangipanis

Frangipanis ideal for landscaping.

Scented Garden Frangipanis – The worlds best evergreen frangipani collection
At Scented Garden Frangipanis we have placed special emphasis on collecting and breeding the worlds best evergreen frangipanis for the past 15 years. We now have the world’s best evergreen frangipani collection.

We believe that the future of frangipanis lie in disease resistant cold tolerant highly perfumed evergreen frangipanis in a wide range of sizes, shapes and colours, which will be popular worldwide in all climates for home and streetscaping.

We are very proud of our successes to date in this specialised field and are pleased to be able to now offer by far the world’s biggest range of rare beautiful evergreen frangipanis, still with many more exciting new colours to come.

Most cold tolerant Evergreens

Not all evergreen frangipani varieties stay evergreen during winter in the subtropics or cooler regions. The Singapore obtusa and the Dwarf obtusa hybrids and San Germain will drop some of their foliage in subtropical winters.

After 4 years of growing evergreens outdoors in unprotected regularly frost prone areas we have observed that the following frangipani are highly cold tolerant/frost resistant still keeping their foliage during frequent zero degree temperatures:

• Plumeria bahamiensis
• Plumeria pudica
• Plumeria tuberculata
• var.SG Annie Prowse
• Puditusa – Hot Pink

Plumeria caracasana hybrids

Plumeria caracasana hybrids are awesome. Typically they have very large perfumed flowers, unusually long graceful, frond-like evergreen foliage which is completely rust-free, or highly rust-resistant. These frangipanis are small trees/large shrubs.

This very rare new group of evergreen frangipanis is far more cold tolerant than the Plumeria obtusa evergreen frangipanis.

Rust immunity in frangipanis

We have observed three different degrees of rust immunity in the various rust immune frangipanis: rust resistant, highly rust resistant and rust free.

Rust resistant – means that these frangipanis are mostly rust free and rust while usually present in the rust season is minor unless the plant becomes stressed such as in cold wet conditions.

Highly Rust resistant – means that the plants is always almost completely rust free and not at all noticeable unless you closely look for it. A very high degree of rust immunity.

Rust free – means that these plants are completely immune to rust spores and infection with no rust spores to be found on leaves even when searching closely for any signs of rust spore.