Nerium oleander 'Salmon' Vilmorin Camellia japonica opens in winter

Camellia japonica opens in winter

the kind of plant a visitor stops to identify before noticing the flowers at all

improving lean ground while growing

saturated violet-purple around a tight golden disk

Nerium oleander 'Salmon' Vilmorin Camellia japonica opens in winterFew shrubs carry as much history as the oleander, grown around the Mediterranean and across the warm world since antiquity. The name Nerium traces to the Greek neros, meaning moist or watery, a nod to the streamsides and dry watercourses where oleander naturally takes hold, while the old name oleander seems to braid together olea, the olive, and the leathery, lance shaped leaves the two plants share. Those dark green leaves stand in tidy whorls of