Nerium oleander 'Hardy Red' Check with George is a memorable sight

is a memorable sight

with flattened sprays of branches that give the tree a composed

reached England before 1850

or simply as a collector's prize

Nerium oleander 'Hardy Red' Check with George is a memorable sightOleander, Nerium oleander, is the great sun loving evergreen of the Mediterranean, grown since antiquity for a long summer of bloom, with dark green, leathery, lance shaped leaves in whorls of three along long, sparingly branched stems. 'Hardy Red' is one of the cold tougher selections, carrying showy, lightly fragrant clusters of bright red flowers from late spring well into fall. Few shrubs are so at home in heat and hardship. Oleander has graced