Black and purple adenium plants desert roses

Q: I am looking for a purple and black desert roses. Do you have any? Are Adenium the same as the desert rose???    – Sylvia

A:  The Black adenium is a myth. There are not true black adeniums no matter what images people show or send you. Just like a true black rose the images are altered to look black. In reality the flower is a dark rich red. In real life they do not look black but dark dark red.

There are flower that are magenta/violet /purple in color. If you are looking for a rich grape purple then you may be disappointed. The purples are closer to violet (medium purple). The closest ones we have seen to purple are purple rain, king violet and Sapchareng. We have a couple Violet monkong ready to bloom  that seems like they will produce a purple/violet color but I will need to wait a couple of weeks.

Whenever you see images look at them. If the image is dark (see the background) or the color fuzzy then be careful because is may be an altered images to look better then the actual adenium flower. Thailand, India and China are famous for selling adenium plants using altered pictures. We we get a shipment of plants from Thailand we put a notice that until we see the actual flower that the flower type is NOT PROVEN. If we receive 50 plants of one flower type of desert rose we wait to see 3..4 of them to bloom before posting the true images.  Or order usually consist of 20 or more different flower types of adenium plants per order. Yes, sometimes the image from Thailand are accurate but we see differences in about 25 to 37% of the images when compared to the real flowers. Even in the lots there will be variations.

Collectors of adenium plants in the US think this is a put-on to state NOT -PROVEN on the website because USA collectors/buyers are spoiled by most nurseries (Ebay is an except – many dis-honest images) in the USA of showing the correct images. We haev purchased adeniums from 5 different major growers in Thailand and they are all the same -inaccurate images and plant sizes.

To crop or not to crop and desert rose adenium plant – trimming succulents

Mike,

The desert roses I bought from you just finished blooming. They were beautiful! The mystery plant bloomed a very pretty triple pink! I was so delighted that I took the chance.

I am thinking of pruning them. Should I do it now or wait for spring? I live in Chicago. And they are in a green house – happy and healthy.

How long after pruning can I fertilize?

Thanks!

Soledad

 

One day left for the 6 pack special

Many of our followers go to the AdeniumRose website for their adenium plants and supplies. We sent a special to our clients earlier this week which give them a chance to get larger hybird plants at a greatly reduce price.  As of this post we haev two units of the 6 packs left.  This is the lowest price they are every offered and will not be repeated for another year of so.

If we sell out of the remaining two (3) six packs all people who ordered them will get some of the standard size adeniums plants (4.5″ pots) and some of the larger  6″ pots.  either way all shipments will be mail by tomorrow and the special will end.

Here is the location of the adenium flowering succulent plant adenium special area.  You will receive 6 adenium plants. Please read the page concerning the types of flowers on the desert rose plants.