Question: GOOD MORNING
I am contemplating purchasing two desert rose plants. I have a pot that is 20 inches around by 18 inches deep. I plant on planting adenium plants, both of them, in the one pot? I’m looking for the color contrast as well as the unusual form of the desert rose plant itself together. Please advise.
Thank you
Several varieties of desert rose plants with variegated leaves
Answer: Yes you can but the pot is way too deep. If you use the deep pot you will need to fill the bottom up with rocks so you only have 6″ of soil in the pot. On top of the rock place a weed blocking cloth to prevent losing the soil into the rock areas.
miniature garden with adeniums and other succulents
Also, put rocks on top of the soil to keep the perlite down. Maybe use the rocks (blue)to create a pond as shown on AdeniumRose Company site under Bonsai and miniature gardens area.
Odd number of plants are always best when making a succulent or cactus miniature garden. Arrange in levels and keep the taller plants towards the back or to the side. Adeniums plants, desert roses, make great subject trees due to their unusual shapes and you can bonsai to create very interesting mini gardens.
Good Day: We posted on our Facebook area www.facebook.com/epicgrower that we are doing something different for the first time. We are getting ready to order in more adenium plants from Thailand. However, instead of AdeniumRose Company selecting the flower types we are asking you to see your top to choices. Once we collect the totals we will review and see if the desert rose plants are available. Please only select adenium plants form the images below.
Ok – here the images of flowering adenium plants to choose your top picks. Please select your top ten choices and either send an email to sales@adeniumrose.com or post your top ten choices here. AdeniumRose Company will review the results and contact Thailand to see if they have them in stock. Please note the images of the adenium plants flowers are from Thailand which are not always accurate.
Please select your top 7 to 10 adenium desert rose plants flower types in the images and send back by the end of the month. When making your choices use the number associated with the image. These are all hybrid adenium plants – yes we have a couple of these in stock all ready at Epic Grower Company but mostly there are new flower adenium plants from the Thailand growers. Remember either to send use an email or post the replay here! We will send an email through our website too because not everybody goes to the blog and Facebook pages.
Please select your top 8 adenium desert rose plants flower types in the images and send back by the end of the month. When making your choices use the number associated with the image. These are all hybrid adenium plants – yes we have a couple of these in stock all ready at Epic Grower Company but mostly there are new flower adenium plants from the Thailand growers. Remember either send use an email or post the replay here! we will send an email through our website too because not everybody goes to the blog and Facebook pages.
list 1 of adenium desert rose flower types2014 list 2 adenium flower types
It’s time to check your plants before summer gets into full swing!
Double Blood Red jumbo adenium plant Caudex over 7″ across and top crown over 13″ wide
Summer id here in all the southern states and very soon in the Northern states. It’s times time to check your desert rose plants. AdeniumRose Company nursery is in South Florida which means afternoon thunderstorms (tons of rain) just about every day, 90%+ humidity and temps in the 90’s! This is the time of year that you need to check you adenium plant soil to insure great drainage and apply fertilizer to the desert rose and other plants.
Summer rains leach out nutrients from the soil. In early May we spread time release fertilizer and now it’s time for a micro-nutrient boost so we are using Dyna-Gro grow with Dyna-Gro TekT to help the plant intake the nutrients and make the leaves more tolerant of water. The time release fertilizer is great as a general season long supply of three basic nutrients but it does not the macro and micro minerals to accelerate the adenium plants growth of thicker and healthier plants. If you have not looked at the site recently go to it and check out the link across the top that says “Growing Healthy Plants”.
Do you have to use the fertilizers to grow plants – no. However, there is a huge different in the health of the plants and speed of growing if you use the right fertilizers and nutrients. P.S. We use the Dyna-Gro Grow and TekT on all our plants not just the adeniums.
Cropping the branches:
Now is the time to crop your desert rose plants branches that are too long to help force the growth of a fatter caudex (exposed root system) and roots in most southern states since it past blooming time. If you are in an area that is getting rain, make sure you protect the cuts from water for 4..5 days to give the cut time to heal over. In Mid and Northern states the same applies to you if you already had a bloom or if you re-potted the pants 30 days or more ago.
Flower buds
We received several questions about adenium plant flower buds dropping and usually the questions were from areas that a strange winter/spring weather. Dropping desert rose plant flower buds (before flowering) is usually cause by three things: abrupt weather change for a few days (warm to cold), the plant not getting the right nutrients and/or fertilizing while the adenium buds are on the plant. Are there other causes – yes but these cover the majority of the loss of buds.
If you have any questions please post them here.
Thank you for you friendship and business Have a Happy Father’s Day and fantastic 4th of July in a couple of weeks.
