In her small garden here in Italy my mum has her white pride. Her oleanders are on the side near the lake. They are white and pink. Today I share the white ones.
Oleanders are a main feature here and on many Mediterranean gardens, widely used for screen planting, on hillsides and alongside roads or in our case near the lake. Flowering in summer, the large open clusters can be single or double, and come in many colours including white, pink, red and peach. My mum has pink and white. Upright stems are clothed with evergreen leaves which are long, slender, and an attractive shade of silvery-green. Like silk. And at night they even attrack insects. I tried to capture it with the nightlight.
Oleander, the Nerium oleander, comes in a wide range of color varieties although plants are usually sold just by colour rather than name. White, red and pink flowered forms are most widely available.
Here you see them everywhere and the fact that they are extremely poisonous was something I didn’t know!
Every part of the oleander plant is extremely poisonous and consuming even a small amount can be fatal, so it’s wise not to grow oleanders where there are children and pets. So this time with the baby of my brother that part of the small garden is off limits. Also the foliage may cause skin irritations. Wash hands thoroughly after handling or pruning, and ideally wear gloves.
https://www.directplant.nl/tuintips/oleander )
Good light is essential for oleanders to produce flowers. I brought a few branches last year to plant in our garden at home, but it didn’t work. Holland has to little sun I think. And they died really quick. Maybe I will try again this year.
Oleanders need regular watering from spring to autumn to keep the compost evenly moist , with water so near from the lake and the fact that it also rains very often for a small period of minutes and heavenly that helps to let them florish. It’s especially important that plants don’t go short of water in spring when flower buds are forming. And if they don’t florish this year than they will problably will not form flowers next year. So the plant stays green leaved.
Some of the flowers on this oleander are affected by the fungus Ascochyta: brown spots development in the leaf axils and in the leaves and the young shoots wither, but also in the flowers. The fungus apparently spreads through water droplets. So with rain that is very hard to stop. The plant must immediately put out of the rain. That is not possible with this one because it is a bush in the earth. Fortunately, it is not with all the bush but according to my mother you can cut those flowers off but she won't because the overall bush is very beautiful.
So yes they are in the pictures. I uses night light and flash. I will add some pink ones this week to only that oleander is different for some reason the pink flowers are only at the top.
For more information and know how :
https://www.tuinadvies.be/artikels/oleander_nerium_oleander
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Oh my!!! How lucky you are to have all these gorgeous flowers in your life!! It's interesting that something so beautiful is also so dangerous. Are they fragrant?
Hahahah not mine but my mums hahaha but yes they are lovely. They smell a bit but the ground is not that rich here they say with better soil the smell geta better , I don’t know if that’s true you see insects though so they must be smelling
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BEER.My mom has oleanders also! They are so beautiful and the flowers are abundant! I was not familiar with the fungus, but, I am happy to hear that it will go away.
I did know that they were poisonous, but, not while my kids and dogs were young and I was visiting. It wasn't until they were out of the baby stage that someone told me. Yikes.
Italy is such a nice place to live! I loved it there. Thank you for the beautiful flowers and for using the tag #alwaysaflower ! Have a wonderful day!
We didn't know either , my sister in law said it because they brought their 9 month old son this time and the kidschair was infront of the flowers😬 but it's good to know indeed. But it's such a great addition to the garden. Italy is great, and even we can forget the Covid here being tested and among family. I am fortunate
Italy is very pretty!
Oleanders are beautiful and are said to be poisonous. Luckily animals here do not touch them, hehehe. They grow to as high as 10 feet!
Enjoying yourself, @brittandjosie!
Maybe they know that it is poisonous.
Animals may know (or feel) more than we think.
For example some of them can predict earthquakes.
Oh yes!!!
Like, a sixth sense (that is if they have five... hehehe!)
I just didn't know they were. But my brothers brought the baby and his wife told us😬 and yes the bush is now two and a bit meters high. It grows very fast.
Again they are mums treasures
They have beautiful flowers and thick foliage.
And make good hedgers or people use them here to totally block their homes from view.
Actually, they are very popular here in Northern California 👍😀
We don't see them a lot in the Netherlands either to wet ir To cold I guess
wow beautiful photography..I think it is the evening flower. My guess is if it really is, it spreads its fragrance from evening to night, spreading the depths of the night even further. Its fragrance is very beautiful.
Really? Wow I didn't know ! Cool, maybe the other hivers didn't know either. I did see insects there and thought that must be because of the scent , thanks for clearing that up! Hive is also Education now 😉
sorry i have a some mistake.
Yes, if that is the evening flower.In the evening the flower starts blooming in the evening which spreads its fragrance till late at night and during the day it slowly falls in the sunlight
Hasnahena or Hasnuhana (scientific name- Cestrum nocturnum) is a flower belonging to the Solanaceae family. ... names are lady of the night, night-blooming jessamine, night-scented jessamine, night-scented cestrum or poisonberry. This flower is native to the West Indies, but it is well adapted to the natural environment of South Asia..link
Cool native to the West Indies, and imported to Europe I guess. In the Netherlands you don't see them often and the fact they are poison I never knew but with the baby that is information that we didn't want to miss. So by doing the blog we learned something and your information gave even more insight
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These white ones look so beautiful. I think you made pictures from your home
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That moment when the racist mega biatch gets slammed for actual plagiarism after she misrepresented sourcing etiquette to Africans and latinos so she could openly bash them and accuse them of plagiarism.
Funny tho how she harbored white plagiarists and helped them skirt the blacklist.
Was wondering where I'm gonna park some downvotes in the near future.
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