Nerium oleander 'Hardy Pink' Open House Native to very limited area

Native to very limited area on deep sandy soil

the latter very likely the cultivar known as 'Firefly'

and was grown on in the celebrated garden of the de Vilmorins at Verrieres

calls "small

Nerium oleander 'Hardy Pink' Open House Native to very limited areaOleander, 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