Nerium oleander 'Salmon' Vilmorin not the different Asian shrub

not the different Asian shrub Ternstroemia gymnanthera that nurseries so often sell under the Cleyera name

Camellia japonica opens in winter

the kind of plant a visitor stops to identify before noticing the flowers at all

What returns is fast and fountain-like

improving lean ground while growing

Nerium oleander 'Salmon' Vilmorin not the different Asian shrubFew shrubs carry as much history as the oleander, grown around the Mediterranean and across the warm world since antiquity. The name Nerium traces to the Greek neros, meaning moist or watery, a nod to the streamsides and dry watercourses where oleander naturally takes hold, while the old name oleander seems to braid together olea, the olive, and the leathery, lance shaped leaves the two plants share. Those dark green leaves stand in tidy whorls of