Can you prune oleander

Some varieties are spring bloomers, while others flower freely through the summer. Some have a vanilla fragrance. A newly planted oleander will need some care, but once established, maintenance is minimal. A good candidate for a xeriscape, the oleander accepts alkaline, sandy soils found on Bolivar and Galveston as well as heavier Houston soils.

The oleander tolerates soils with salt, too. Plant oleanders in a well-draining soil enriched with some compost. Full sun is best for a profusion of blooms; you'll find fewer blooms in partial shade. Varieties vary in cold-tolerance, but many are root-hardy. Galveston gardeners say oleanders require little or no fertilizer. Water well after fertilizing. Most Popular. I have an 8-foot-tall oleander in front of my home. I would like to trim it back to feet tall. Its limbs are long and leggy, and it didn't flower last year.

What can I do? Oleander grows vigorously and requires annual late-winter pruning to maintain a small size and attractive shape. Maintaining a foot-tall oleander plant, though, is unrealistic, unless your oleander Nerium oleander is a dwarf cultivar, such as 'Petite Salmon' or 'Petite Pink', which top out at feet tall.

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