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Oleander

zana007goldzana007gold Posts: 5
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I have beautiful Oleander tree , it was growing beautifully until recently it started to have drooping branches, leaves getting yellow and flowers drying out looking sad and tired. I have changed soil and mixed it with compost, I make sure it’s watered properly not too much or too little. Do you think it’s dying, what can I do to save it ? I really love this plant and don’t want to loose it. Please help
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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Are you growing it in a pot?  You may be getting the watering wrong no matter how careful your are.

    Around here they are used as minicipal planting, in the ground and cope with poor soils and little rain plus ocean breezes and yet they thrive.   In Italy they are used as motorway planting in the central reservation betwwn Genoa and Florence and probably points south so maybe you are being too kind to yours.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • zana007goldzana007gold Posts: 5
    hi, thank you for your reply 
    yes mine is growing in a pot. I have checked rooting system it seems it’s taken whole pot therefore I am thinking is it possible that pot is too small and it’s affecting roots? They seem to me very compact no space to spread, do you think it would be better to plant it in the ground? 
    Thank you 
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Oleanders grow pretty big. Mine is in the ground. It will need a sheltered sunny position in the UK.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    could we have a picture, I am in the UK, (hotest,driest corner, 10 minutes from the sea) been in teir pots, hardly fed or even watered. Most south facing, they do need a lot of sun to flower....they are now of course.
  • zana007goldzana007gold Posts: 5

  • zana007goldzana007gold Posts: 5

    I taken yellow leaves off, so now it looks fine but soon they will appear again 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Mine hasn't flowered in, possibly, a decade. I was about to hoik it out and what should I see? Pink flower buds. How did it know?

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    It looks healthy to me. It's evergreen. Just because evergreens keep their leaves in winter doesn't mean they don't lose them. They do, and they grow new ones, just not all at once. Yours is still small, mine is about 8ft tall and bushy, would look funny in a pot!
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • zana007goldzana007gold Posts: 5
    thank you all for your suggestion, very much appreciated. I love this plant and hope it grows big as yours 8ft tall 
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    Put it into the ground ,it will find its stride and romp away ,good luck 
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