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Good evening all, this one’s for Aimee tonight, this is her favorite flower called Frangipani or Plumeria. As the story goes, a year ago Aimee was walking around near Punda and passed some gardeners trimming a giant Frangipani Tree. She grabbed a freshly cut piece and brought it home and immediately placed it in water and set it in our kitchen window where it stayed for next two to three months until it finally had roots. Next we bought a big pot and planted it in fresh soil and placed it outside for the first time since she brought it home and weeks later it started to grow. It then stayed in the pot outside on our porch for the next few months until she finally asked the gardeners if they would plant it outside in our garden where it has been ever since. Because of all this rain it finally started to really grow and this week we had the first flowers! Plumeria flowers are most fragrant at night in order to lure sphinx moths to pollinate them. The flowers have no nectar, and simply dupe their pollinators. The moths inadvertently pollinate them by transferring pollen from flower to flower in their fruitless search for nectar. Plumeria is related to the Oleander, Nerium Oleander, and both possess poisonous, milky sap, rather similar to that of Euphorbia. Each of the separate species of Plumeria bears differently shaped alternate leaves and their form and growth habits are also distinct.
Well lets see, what’s going on? We all thought Holland would win the World Cup of Soccer today but Spain took home the gold, we have a whole lot of disappointed folks here tonight! Lance Armstrong is currently 12 minutes behind in the Tour de France and doesn’t think he will be able to make up that much time but may concentrate on a stage win instead. Big congrats to Andy Schleck for winning a very tough stage of the Tour de France today, he’s one of the top riders that comes to Curacao every year and we always end up running into him and his brother Frank.
I took the dogs to the beach this morning and bagged trash while they played and then spent the rest of the day at home on the computer. That’s about it gang, be back tomorrow, Barry
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