Frangipani / Plumeria Flowers

[Tracy D'Amico]

I have a "potential" bride asking about availability of frangipani & plumeria for her bridal bouquet. I have never seen these as a cut flower, and wonder about the fragility of these blossoms. I've seen some bouquet images online - beautiful. They seem to be popular in Australia & New Zealand, as well as Hawaii ...

Any experience with purchasing or working with these as a wedding flower? My wholesaler's first answer was not likely, but I thought this would be the place to ask.

thanks!

 

[CHR]

They are extremely fragile. If you can run out, pluck them off a tree and then deliver them the same day - they're OK to use. Otherwise, I'd would really avoid them.

 

[geebf]

Frangipanni are very popular here for Bridal bouquets.

I will work with fresh but as thay are a fragile flower I do reccommend to my Brides that we use artificial - These are quite realistic and are made from a Latex / foam material.

Working with Fresh Frangipanni just takes a little extra care. Plus, our wholsalers generally don't supply them as a Commercial cut flower so we literally rely on the ones in the streets.!

Tracy - If your Bride is fine with using the artificial ones and you can't source any, just let me know and I'll send you some.

 

[Dazeal]

Plumeria is too fragile to ship from Hawaii and arrive nicely. Avoid it. It smells so good though.

 

[Clarabella]

http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx?q=Frangipani+Flower&mkt=en-us
I love images....here are the pictures
I don't know much about the flower but good luck with the bride

 

[overendesigns]

Maui Floral sell them loose, they only last a few days but it could get through a wedding...888.878.1218
they are very helpful, I have used them for years from orchids to ginger to protea to anthurium and I just talked to them this week about plumeria.

 

[logan]

Very beautiful, delicate and oh so fragile, only 1 wedding with them in last 2 years, don't seem that popular at the moment, they come in only the day before the wedding (a risk), picked and shipped that same day and are wired and taped at the last minute on the day of the wedding, also pricy even though they are grown here

 

[Tracy D'Amico]

Thank you all for your responses, geeb for the offer of silk, and overendesigns for the supplier info. I'll source it, give my warnings, make suggestions about silk or alternative flowers and see how it goes.
I've only seen it at the Philadelphia flower show, where they sell the stumps to plant they have a selection of blooming specimens. Pretty pretty, and smells lovely.

tracy