An Arizona-based food, beverage and travel writer since 2008, I launched this website in 2015 to document my culinary adventures, beverage escapades, gardening endeavors, and travel in the Phoenix area and beyond. Also find a comprehensive calendar of Phoenix-area food and drink-related events on my Events page.
This traveled as a potted plant on our cross-country drive from Boston to Phoenix. Since this was transplanted into the ground (in a custom cut-out on our back patio), it has grown to 5 feet high by 6 feet wide and is covered in fragrant bloom clusters every summer.
Big beautiful booms with a gardenia-like scent.
I bought this at the 15th Annual Hawaiian Plumeria Festival Presented by the Southern California Plumeria Society in August 2014. It had been on my wish list for quite a while and it didn't disappoint - I love the colors, large flowers, and sweet grape scent.
Plumeria rubra 'J.L.Pink Pansy'