Oleanders still in bloom

They never quit! This one is Mrs. Rhoeding, I love the pastel salmon color with the pink tinge on the edges.

This is an old cultivar of double red. has long slim leaves .

This is a single intense red..I love this one.

Mrs. Runge an old variegated type that gets really big.

Those are great pictures Kyle. Funny how they are so hated here in the desert. I happen to like them though. The ones between my Dad's house and mine are over 12ft tall.

ahh pink I love pink . LOL as many of you know.
I just got my first oleander ( yellow )
yours are great. love the variegated one.

My smaller cuttings that a friend shared with me in Oct are budding up now..brings my total to 42 varieties. Yippee!

Since I immediately go ga-ga over anything variegated, could I ask for a cutting of that Mrs. Runge when you are trimming her next? Happy to send a trade of something else tropical. You have d-mail.

Beautiful, Kyle!! Luv the colors on the peachy one and the two tone pink! Does it make seeds easily? I've never seen the variegated one around here either.
:) Donna

Oh my.....I do love that bright red and the salmon color. Very pretty.

Donna, I don't ever see seeds on the variegated one, but I have tons of seeds of other types.Especially the intense red. It seeds like crazy.
Brugie leave some room in the yard in the spring! LOL

Kyle if you ever get any seeds for the two doubles, please keep me in mind. I luv the red double with the little frill section in the middle.
:) Donna

Donna will do.. :-)

Thanks!

Kyle, you are too good to me. I'll be looking forward to seeing you again.

This is Turners shari I believe.Never without flowers.

This is un-Id'ed yellow double. Never without flowers either.

I like the wide open flowers on the last peachy one. The center is very pretty too. Nice yellow.......They are all nice.

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i got lots to choose from now.Soon the fringed red will be blooming, I even have white with red stripes down the center of the petals now.

Where do you put these plants during the summer?

More drooling.....

I didn't even know there were 42 varieties............ amazing!

ardesia, that friend of mine that blessed me with many more kinds has over 68 varieties.

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Maybe if more of the oleanders looked like those down here nobody would be tired of them. They are very pretty and so different from what you see around here.

Jeri

Jeri some will take the cold other kinds won't thats why you don't see that many kinds.Take a trip to Galveston Island in Tx. thats a repository for many kinds.they are all over the island.

Kyle...sounds like you have a great collection!!!!

Auntie Kalola, Its an affliction!!!.Collect this, collect that.....When will it stop?? Oh why..Oh why me???? ehh..I'm over it. LOL


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Kyle .... they are all just beautiful!!

I lost 14 huge oleanders to a virus about 5 years ago; they were the large flowered, single red ones. Amazingly, the one and only single pink I had made it through and I have propagated many others from this one. I am sort of afraid to try others because of the disease; it is my understanding the vector for the virus was a tiny fly. Spraying on the chance this tiny fly might show up again doesn't make sense to me.

Has anyone else dealt with the virus killing their oleanders? What did you do for it?

Thats a perfect reason to disperse plants as widely as possible..to prevent total loss of species by virus or insect attackWe are trying to do the same thing with crotons as hurricanes in Fla can wipe out old cultivars in a day.So spread them plants around you never know when yours will bite the dust and you need to replace the same one. look at the problems they are having with erythrinas in Hawaii, they are all dying off and eventually will need to replace them.
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Sorry to butt in here, but which Oleanders are cold-hardiest? The grow well in coastal NC and are hardy there, which is only 4 hours away, in zone 8a-b. When I see oleanders around here for sale, they are never hardy to our zone, and I have to bring mine inside. I love them and would love to have some permanent ones outside.

What a great collection Kyle, I still want to come play in your greenhouses.

I especially love Mrs Runge. Yours looks kind of small, any idea where I could get a start of that one?

Linda most of mine are trees, I used that one for a pic because its easier to photogragh smaller plants. I put these out as 24 inch plants in the spring and by fall they can be 7 ft or taller, needs pruning often to keep it well shaped and branched.

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Let's carpool Linda. Road trip to Iowa, WOo HOo !!!!!

Now, that would be a fun trip.

Kyle's nursery beats Woodley's and Hyam's hands down. LOL

Just think, we could stop in Louisville along the way and see Brian's wall.

Get in the car..watch out for the snow up here though.

Snow???? Is that the white stuff??????

yeah yu know, cold , white, icey, crudey..blah stuff

I've got lots here if anybody wants some...lol. Sometimes the snow can be yellow to....lol.
:) Donna