It’s been a busy summer in the adenium and cactus nursery. We re-arrange the whole growing area and created new growing benches for the desert rose plants. This past week we received another shipment of adenium plants form Thailand with several new adenium plant flower types.
The majority of the plants in the new shipment are the standard size ones (95%), but we did receive around 35 plants in a much larger size. All except for 12 of them required a 16″ pot due to their jumbo size caudex (several over 11″ across). These adeniums will not be offered until the flower. The majority of the jumbo desert rose plants have several very thick branches – all multiple grafts on them. Yes, a few are name plants we had in the past but to make sure we want to see them flowering. We will try to get the adeniums to flower early so they can be offered before Spring.
The standard size adeniums look great for the most part. Some will require cropping in the near future to force branching. One of the 11 new types we received is already starting to flower so it will be listed very soon – it’s a new flower type called hiphop. It looks like the image we received from Thailand (image on the left) will be about 85% accurate on this one. The hiphob desert rose plant has a very distinct stripe on a white petal (it’s not fully open yet). The Thailand image shows more pink on the flower petal of the desert rose plant but with the same distinct stripe. yes, it’s a triple!