Question: December19, 2013 – The Desert Rose plant what size container will they be shipped in and do they have buds are flowers now? If not when will they be blooming.
Answer: The desert rose plants is a spring to early summer bloomer depending upon your climate. The adenium plants are not shipped in a container. They are shipped barefoot which means no soil. Desert rose, Adenium, plants are succulents that are desert water thrifty plants. Cactus and succulents are dormant during the winter months and then leaf out during spring (in southern states they leaf out late winter) before they flower. However, many times Desert Rose plants will flower before leafs develope depending upon the amount of water they receive and nutrients in the soil.
People grow adenium plants throughout the USA and people in the North learn that they need to be protected from cold. If you are familiar with growing other succulents or cactus type plants then you will do well with these desert rose plants.
During the winter months AdeniumRose Company LLC ships the adenium plants with 72 hour warmers to help protect them from the freezing cold weather. They are not flowering now and if they were they would lose the flowers during shipment. Most collectors obtain their desert rose plants in fall and late winter so the plants are ready for blooming in a couple months if treated right. Customers in the southern states (FL, GA, Al, MS, LS, TX, NM, AZ, Southern CA) buy year round due to their more temperate climates.
AdeniumRose Company is based in Miami Florida which is a topical climate. The plants do go semi-dormant (grow slower) and lose some of their leaves but not all because of our extreme southern location. Our tropical location makes it a great place to grow desert rose plants for our USA clients. example: We obtain a shipment of adenium plants in late September (potted last week of September) and all the adenium plants have tons of leafs. Plus, two of the adenium plants varieties flowered already.
The plants in the AdeniumRose Company nursery are grown in open are not under nursery nets which makes the adenium plants stronger (weak ones die) but we have less control of when they bloom. In most areas the USA, the adenium plants will start going dormant in October – November time frame and lose their leaves but not in south Florida.
P.S: We are receiving another shipment this weekend from Thailand ans should be ready in 3 months just in time for spring!
