Anybody got plants of yellow(buff) colored oleanders?? I need a start of them again.Have 200 kinds of radioactive(REALLY HOT) chile peppers all hot types. (seeds)
Yellow flowered oleanders
Kyle, I haven't seen an oleander in years, they don't grow in this region. But when I saw your post, I had a vivid flashback of the oleanders I grew up with in turkey, and for the longest time I didnt know what they were called in English untill just recently in fact. Oleanders were the tree of choice (or is it a shrub) in Izmir's landscaping, the city I grew up in, and I remember my sisters and I picking the flowers. I can smell the sickly sweet scent that used to permeate the air in the late alfternoon, and can feel the stickiness left on our fingers. I hear they are quite poisonous, but we didnt know that back then, not that it would have deterred us in the least.
I hope you find your yellow oleander.
Pebble, Thanks! and they are really poisonous...the smoke when you burn the leaves can kill a person..you can even get a toxic effect from the pollen after repeated exposure..OOPS! LOL
knowing this, I wonder how we never got sick....although we never burned the leaves, I do remember a game we use to play trying to peel the leaves and see who could peel it intact.
This is to change the subject, but along the same lines as our fun in peeling the leaves of the oleander, we used to have huge pepper tree in our garden, and I would pick the clusters of peppercorns - they come in a dark pink casing in bunches like grapes, I use to love picking these and taping them on my desk's cubbyholes, and I would crush the pink outer coating and it would release a pungent odor. I havent seen any of these trees here either.
Pebble....sounds like Brazilian pepper trees..they grow all over southern Calif.they have rough bark that gets nawrleyand the leaves are compound and willowy..
Kyle, do you know how to grow piper nigrum? I have the seeds but can't get them to germinate.
Brugie we have plants of it at work..grows like a weed..but sure it needs lots of heat to germinate..like 80F
Sounds perfect for Texas....
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I just cranked up the heat mat and will see what happens.
Thanks,
Eclipse, I don't have oleander plants, but I do have lots of seed. I'll be happy to send you a packet - E-mail me if you're interested. Trish grew about 20 of these plants this year and they were beautiful.
