Strength that blooms in hard places
Desert rose · Adenium
Size
A swollen trunk that stores what it needs and flowers anyway, straight out of the dry. For blooming where you are planted.
The good it does: drought tough · sun loving.
Ships Monday to Friday · replaced free if it arrives less than well
How to keep it happy
Full, direct sun. Water only when the soil is completely dry, sparingly in winter, the swollen trunk stores its own supply. Use gritty soil; the sap is toxic.
Plant details & care
- Botanical name: Adenium Obesum
- Common names: Desert Rose
Adenium obesum is a poisonous species of flowering plant belonging to tribe Nerieae of subfamily Apocynoideae of the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, that is native to the Sahel regions, south of the Sahara, and tropical and subtropical eastern and southern Africa and Arabia.
How it arrives
Potted, packed by hand at the nursery, and shipped Monday to Friday, usually within a day or two of your order. In cold months we tuck in a heat pack; in a hard freeze we hold your order and send a card that says it is on the way.
Our happy-plant promise
If your plant arrives worse for the journey, tell us within 48 hours and we'll send another, no forms, no fuss. Living things deserve second chances; so do deliveries.
Goes gently with
A little more on purpose
An add-on usually carries the order past $90, and shipping is on us from there.
