Nerium oleander

I've never really got into these plants, but the one plant that I have as always been slow to flower and if the weathers a bit off then it dont bother to flower at all.
It just grows buds and looks like its going to, in the greenhouse its fine, no problem and a bit of a scent as well from the dark pink double flowers.
The other day I came across this, its a pale yellow one, single flower and the leaves are much narrower.

Then this morning I found this, a red one.

Apparently they are bred for the more northern areas of Europe.
have a look here.
http://www.oleandercorazon.com/sort_uk.html

This is all three, my slow flowering pink one is top left

 

Same here Pete, they grow well in our climate but stuggle to flower well. Singles flower more readily than doubles. I cut mine back in the early winter as they grew too tall but they now have have buds but could be a while before they flower.

 

I'm hoping these new ones, (new to me anyway) will be a bit more reliable, definitely a different plant in leaf as well.

 

Just saw this. Think you may know, pete, I have two Oleanders, same colour because one is an offshoot of the other. It is a double pink, no scent, just coming into bloom, so I'll put pics up as and when.

I have a problem with yellowing leaves and black spot on them and give them iron pellets to alleviate the problem, which it really doesn't.

What amazes me is that they grow wild here and I have trouble in my garden! :rolleyes:

 

I'm not sure LOL but I dont think they need extra iron, as I said before I'm not that well up on them, strongy knows much more than me about them.

 

Evening, pete. Last year I contacted one of the garden specialists here (not my friend, who I actually haven't talked to about this) but another person who has a garden centre/landscape business and he assured me it was a lack of iron!

I went out and bought pellets and it helped originally, with the Oleander and the Hibiscus that was in the ground at that time with yellowing leaf problems, but it was a short-lived solution.

After that, another article came out here about yellowing leaves and iron was mentioned yet again.

What annoys me is the wild ones have no yellowing leaves that I can see .... :eek: I'm wondering if it's to do with deep rooting to get water ???? We are red clay in this area.

I have had my first blooms today which I posted in May but I have yellow, spotted leaves ... (picked most off for the photos obviously :D )!

 

It could be that they need to root deeply, I understand that although they come from the med area they do need constant moisture and are not what you would expect as a native from those parts.