Nerium oleander 'Salmon' Vilmorin Site the dwarf sweetbay in

Site the dwarf sweetbay in moist

What returns is fast and fountain-like

saturated violet-purple around a tight golden disk

acid soil in semi-shade

and other sun-lovers make easy companions

Nerium oleander 'Salmon' Vilmorin Site the dwarf sweetbay inFew shrubs carry as much history as the oleander, grown around the Mediterranean and across the warm world since antiquity. The name Nerium traces to the Greek neros, meaning moist or watery, a nod to the streamsides and dry watercourses where oleander naturally takes hold, while the old name oleander seems to braid together olea, the olive, and the leathery, lance shaped leaves the two plants share. Those dark green leaves stand in tidy whorls of