The Making of Miss Champa

We got her home as a little branch for CAD 10 on March 20, 2010 from Canada Blooms. P had his doubts she’d survive the Canada cold. I was like an optimistic parent- nurturing and moving her 12 inch planter to where the sun shone the brightest. I even talked to her once in a while.

In the middle of the burgeoning summer (May 2010), Miss Champa sprouted a couple of leaves. Photographs were clicked and she made headlines on Facebook. By the end of June, she looked like she made it.

A month later, we noticed what were apparently a cluster of buds!


The record heat this year in TO meant Miss Champa got ample sunshine on our sunny balcony. And a free wash in the liquid precipitation.

Miss Champa also had to stay indoors when the big bad weather boy was wind blowing everything outside. But let out when it was all sun-drenched again.

On September 24, she teased us with this!
She blushed, she teased, she grew up too soon. She acted like a typical girl. Saving her best till we ran out of patience.

Ladies and gentlemen, please say hello to Miss Champa. My first Frangipani bloom.

If you like her, just stroke her gently, blow a kiss delicately but do not pluck her. She is my day-old daughter. And I call her Miss Champa.