RE: Oleander

Oh, Godi, what a shame.  So sorry about the greenhouse heat.

--
Kitty
neIN, Zone 5

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
> Of MICHAEL HABIB
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 2:04 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Oleander
> 
> Noreen,
> Oleander is not an overused plant in our neck of the wood. Since it's not
> hardy here, I keep it in the garage and it does fine. I love the salmon
> colored blossoms in the summer. It blooms and blooms.
> I'm glad that I had transplanted it  to a large container, one that doesn't
> fit through the green house door, otherwise I would have lost it as I did
> all the plants in the greenhouse. On the coldest night this winter, 17
> degrees, the heater didn't kick in. I could have cried.
> Godi zone 7
> Mt. Vernon, VA
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <TeichFlora@aol.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 12:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Oleander
> 
> 
> > Hm...I've never had a bad smell on my Oleander, at least not that I 
> > noticed
> > from a normal distance.  Never stuck my nose on a bloom though, not  yet. 
> > I
> > really love the bottlebrush blooms too, but they only bloom in the 
> > spring,
> > where as the Oleander, at least here, blooms pretty much all year 
> > through.
> > Granted it is an overly used landscape plant, but it is  definitely low
> > maintenance, and does well in droughts as well as floods.   Birds love to 
> > hid in the
> > evergreen foliage year round, and the hummers and  butterflies love the 
> > flowers.
> >
> > Noreen
> > zone 9
> > Texas Gulf Coast
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 2/22/2006 11:12:18 AM Central Standard Time,
> > gardenchat-owner@hort.net writes:
> >
> > Ugh!  I hate oleander.  It is everywhere here and stinks when  it is in
> > bloom.  A most unattractive plant in my opinion!  I'd  take a
> > bottle-brush bush over oleander anyday.  At least the hummers  like the
> > bottle-brush blooms (I dare you to say that 3 times  fast!)
> >
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