Roger's Pick – Plumeria for summertime

The plumeria is one of the most exotic flowers that we can grow in our gardens and that can drum up thoughts of far away island living and fragrant leis at a luau.

Well my friends, it’s all doable right here in Southern California and the small tree plumeria comes in a wide range of colors including reds, pink, yellow, white, maroon, two tones and hundreds of hybrids produced by connoisseurs within the plumeria world.

The genus plumeria is named in honor of the seventeenth-century botanist Charles Plumier who traveled the new world in quest of new flora and fauna that was documented and sent b...