Red Oleander Live Plant

full year flowering oleander plant. easy growing. beautiful red color flowers

Watering

The water requirements follow sun exposure and temperature. If the oleander is in its colder winter quarters, it doesn’t need as much water. It suffices to check the bulb once a week. Oleander will also tolerate moisture in its winter quarter for a short time, but we advise you to keep it drier.

Once temperatures rise during the spring, water requirements rise, too. If you have your plant on your terrace or balcony, we advise to equip them with a saucer, so that rinsed nutrients and water can be absorbed again. During hot periods the oleander should also be, additionally to the regular watering, watered into its saucer, so that the plant is constantly in water.

Big plants have to sometimes be watered up to three times a day. To keep the soil permanently alkaline, the plant cannot be watered with rainwater, but prefers chalky, stale tap water. Always use warmed water and not ice-cold water (directly from the tap) since the evergreen oleander will not tolerate it.

Fertiliser

The oleander belongs to the heavy feeders. This means that it needs a lot of nutrients and a lot of fertiliser during its growth period. After cleaning out in the spring, you should start fertilising. After the end of August, you should stop fertilising, since the young shoots should be able to mature before the winter arrives.

• Point in Time: Spring
• lightly mix long-term fertiliser into the soil
• will act up to 6 months (partly up to 12 months)
• use specialised oleander fertiliser
• NPK 15-8-12 plus trace elements
• fertilising once a year will do
• to reduce pH-Value, add additional fertilising chalk