Thanks Carrie! My friend got back and said that I don't need to do anything special. It was a clean break and she said it will heal and the scar will fade away. It was a nice rounded Y shape, now looks more like a half moon on a stick. At least it will be easier to get inside during winter now. I have very few tropicals and this one is special to me.

Dang, I'm sorry that happened. A limb might have fallen on it and broke it. If they'd just left the branch that snapped off you could have at least started another one from it.

Before storing the tree for the winter you could cut off the opposite branch to balance it and root the cutting.

The tree trimmers from the city get pretty heavy handed with those saws and take down a lot of branches, but the trees grow back so fast I guess they have to.

On another vein, some of the tree trimmers really love and notice trees. One from the city trimming trees in the easment noticed my Arroya sweet wood tree. He was brave to ring my door bell and ask about it because he had a hard time expressing himself in English. When I figured out what he was saying I dug up some sprouts, wrapped the roots in a wet paper towel and gave them to him. I hope they make it.

That's a good idea about cutting it back just below where the Y used to be. Thanks, Roselee.

PK, the good news is that you'll likely get 2-3 new branches from the break point. If branch was broken in an ugly way, slice it neatly. Other than that, you don't need to do anything thing else.

I'm my area the crews are very conservative with their trimming. Why? B/c if they go prune-crazy there won't be a need for the the following season. IOW, they do the absolute minimum so they can get a call back. Still is is very hard work as you know.

Unfortunately, I just didn't think about the path that they would be using to drag the big limbs out to the street. Tonight after work, I moved the plummie and all of my pots that were in the way. Seriously considering taking down some fence temporarily on the other side of the yard to allow egress to the driveway. It will be tough on the dogs to stay inside until I get that panel back up is my concern with that plan. I may just take a sick day tomorrow and walk the dogs out front. We have two big pitties and we are watching the Bull Mastiff grand dog this week so that will keep me busier than work. They are unhappy with strangers around the yard.

I really feel for those guys out working in this heat. I don't really blame them for hitting the plummie, was just ranting about it.

The trees really grew fast from the past two years of good rain. I am glad that they are taking lots down, it's just a shock after having that huge canopy. We have 20 trees on a .34 acre lot, but fortunately, only 3 that are near the power lines. I don't want this done every year, it's so disruptive. The back yard is the dog playground and is pretty indestructible. All plants back there can be cut to the ground and will recover (mostly canna). It was my butterfly garden on the south side yard that took the hit. I am not sure why I didn't think that through. It's not like they could magically transport the limbs out front. We don't have alleys behind our homes in this neighborhood.

There are two trees to go and they are both fully infiltrating the power lines. Maybe that's why the supervisor has to come tomorrow. I won't be complaining to him :-)

Pam, be sure and let the cutting dry for at least two weeks before you pot it in soil. That's a funny story about me for another time.

Sorry, that would be so upsetting. Do you plant your plumeria in the ground in summer? I used grow them but Dan always complained that they were too big to bring in for the winter and that I needed to cut them back. I think around 7' is about as tall as mine got.

Finally one year they didn't make it thru the winter and I decided not to replace them.

I have some plumeria that I grow at the Quitman Arboretum, and I do plant those in the ground (to keep them from blowing over or walking off). One guy who came to the Fourth of July celebration at the Arboretum said that when his get too big, he just cuts off the tops to root and leaves the base in the ground to freeze.

This year I didn't put mine at home in the ground, as I planted where they used to go. I usually bust them up pretty badly when I haul them indoors :(

I did and do usually plant it in the ground because pots, even big ones just tip over in wind. Jeff's great idea is to bury a pot in the ground so that he can weed-eat around it. There is so much more sunlight out back now that the tree trimmers are done, I plan to put it out back now. I have a very different back yard today. It's now going to be mostly full sun rather than almost full shade. It's shocking to the senses!

I'm going to have at least 5 nice cuttings from the top that was left behind. The limb is fat, almost can't get my hand around it and I don't think that I can root that piece, just the smaller branches.

As for pots blowing over I don't know if this would work for anybody else, but when I bring the pots out of the green house in the spring I set them down a few inches into bare soil. I can't dig deep enough to bury the pots, which is a good idea by the way. The pots have huge holes in them so the roots can go out of the pot into the soil and that holds them down. By the time they have enough leaves to catch the wind they are already literally rooted in place.

I turned the pot pictured below because the branches were overhanging the walk. That, of course, tore the roots loose and it started blowing over. So I hammered rods into the ground around the pot. That helped for awhile and then it blew over again.

So I wedged a big rock under the rim of the pot. Some other rocks were brought over to sort of fill in along with some 'garden art' to make it look like I planned it that way all along ... :-) It's working. We've had some strong gusts and it hasn't tipped.

I used to dig them up and store the bare roots in the greenhouse, but it takes longer for them to leaf out in the spring as well as being more work repotting them than rolling pot and all into the greenhouse on a dolly.

I like your idea Roselee! Last year I tried it in a pot buried only 5 inches in the soil and it flipped a couple of times.

I so wish that I had a greenhouse!

I wish you had a greenhouse as well, Pam. And, Roselee, if they made the containers with larger bottoms instead of the smaller rounded ones, they would not blow over so easily. I found some square pots a number of years ago, and that design handled the wind at my house okay.

Carrie, if someone would make a flat bottomed square pot with holes at each corner to drive a metal rod through and into the ground they'd "corner the market" in Plumeria pots.

Hmmm ... if one could find a square plastic pot and drill holes in the corners themselves they'd have it! This one on Amazon would fit the bill. It's less than $14 and if you buy two you'd get free shipping.

Those would be very tempting -- if my pots were not working okay already,

That looks exactly like the ones I had....................very tempting, indeed.

Emerson, a noted seller, has 15' trees in his front yard, every fall he digs them up and hangs them bare root from the ceiling in his unheated RV garage. He has a hoist to get them up there! It's very impressive. I've pretty much given up on growing them in pots, there are still a few but I get tired of repotting so you know me, in the ground with it! I put Maya in this year and she has doubled in size, my other variegated, which has silver leaves, shot up about 3' and has buds forming!!! I am so excited, I've never had the variegated bloom before.