Nerium oleander 'Hardy Pink' Open House and in this selection the

and in this selection the tips fork and crest into ragged

the latter very likely the cultivar known as 'Firefly'

for the polished trunks that set this species apart from every rough-barked relative

or a naturalistic native planting

Native to very limited area on deep sandy soil

Nerium oleander 'Hardy Pink' Open House and in this selection theOleander, 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 Pink' is one of the cold tougher selections, carrying showy, lightly fragrant clusters of clear rose pink flowers from late spring well into fall. Few shrubs are so at home in heat and hardship. Oleander has