All have long, narrow, lance-shaped leaves and funnel-shaped flowers in showy clusters at the ends of branches.
Native to or naturalized in warm temperate and subtropical areas from southern Europe and north Africa east to southwest Asia, oleanders are upright woody shrubs eight to ten feet tall and wide, although there are dwarf cultivars half that size and others that reach heights of eighteen to twenty feet. Faced with such determination, who am I to say they cannot remain? They sprang up again and are still thriving. A dozen years ago I cut them to the ground and authorized their destruction by backhoe during a major garden renovation. Twenty-five years ago I planted them in my own garden as a screen between me and my neighbors. Oleander leaf scorch, a disease caused by a strain of the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa, appears first on one or more branches as leaf yellowing and drooping. One thing they cannot stand is prolonged freezing, although even from that they may quickly recover.įorty years ago I planted oleanders in gardens I made for others.
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Other than full sun and occasional summer water until fully established (which can be five years or more), oleanders seem to have few requirements. scorch, periwinkle wilt, pecan leaf scorch, elm leaf scorch, oleander leaf scorch, phony peach, plum leaf scald, citrus variegated chlorosis and coffee leaf. Pierces disease on grapevine, oleander leaf scorch on oleander (Fig. This disease is spread by flying insects, called sharpshooters. It has a large number of common names depending upon the host plant it is affecting, e.g. Oleanders are astonishingly tolerant of drought, reflected heat, wind, salt spray, poor soil, neglect, severe pruning, and almost every other insult that can be directed their way. Oleander leaf scorch(Xylella fastidiosa) is a bacterial disease that plugs up the vascular system of affected oleanders, eventually making the movement of water throughout the plant impossible over time. Pierces disease of grape, oleander leaf scorch, almond leaf. Pierces Disease is a bacterial infection, which is spread by bugs that feed on grapevines, particularly the glassy winged sharpshooter. Overplanted in housing developments and along freeways in the 1960s and ‘70s, oleanders now seem to be seldom planted except by those who appreciate the dense screening provided by their lush evergreen foliage, their lengthy period of exuberant flowering, and their robust constitution. Oleander ( Nerium oleander) is certainly another. Every so often it is worth reconsidering a once wildly popular plant that, apparently for no reason other than overexposure, has fallen completely out of favor.
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