Nerium oleander 'Salmon' Vilmorin What returns is fast and

What returns is fast and fountain-like

Often called fir-like

the kind of plant a visitor stops to identify before noticing the flowers at all

saturated violet-purple around a tight golden disk

each crowned with several large white flowers whose narrow segments splay outward like pale spider legs around a central membranous cup

Nerium oleander 'Salmon' Vilmorin What returns is fast andFew 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