Started blooming around mid July. Still going...

How wonderful! What a beautiful tree! Are the blooms scented? White ones so often are.

Looks great! How much water do you give the plant during summer?

The bloom do have a scent but it is very very faint.

As far as water I give the plant 5 gallons of water on the first weekend of the month. May through Sep.. If I noticed the plant is actively growing I'll also put miracle grow at 1/2 the recommended dose.

It's really thriving.

It's good to compare notes because I think our climates are quite similar. I give my landscape Pachypodiums a gallon a week, so it works out to be about the same total volume of water, but I provide 1/10 the fertilizer (=5% of the recommended dose) with decent results... non-stop summer blooming, and a foot a year or more of stem on geayi, which does not bloom yet). Maybe I should water twice as much half as often now those 3 plants are established.

Here's geayi in action, maybe halfway through the season



and sofiense flowers in the last light of the day

Interesting looks like both watering approaches work quite well. Usually I tend towards deeper less frequent waterings to promote deeper root growth. The longer time between watering also helps to keep things dried out. I usually dump the water via watering can getting the stems leaves etc all wet.

This plant type also happens to be one where I am noting the difference between watering. This is a plant that was the same size when purchased as the one pictured above but I have it in a pot and in only gets natural rainfall. Still seems happy just smaller. We had a thunderstorm yesterday so its enjoying a rare summer rain. (third one this summer...)