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May 3, 2010

What's blooming at the Baltimore's Rawlings Conservatory?

Baltimore's Rawlings Conservatory

Photo credit: Michael Lemmon

Adenium

The Adenium or “Desert Rose” is a succulent that is found in the tropical regions of Africa. Part of the Apocynaceae family it grows like a shrub and can get up to 5 feet tall.

The spectacular flowers, now blooming at Baltimore's Rawlings Conservatory in Druid Hill Park, arrive in shades of red, pink, white, and yellow.

It does extremely well in direct sunlight and loves hot summers. It will not tolerate cold winters and prefers a dormant period when it will drop all flowers and leaves.

Adeniums do well in containers and are perfect for bonsai. The plant is related to the Oleander and is also poisonous.

Recommended for USDA zones 11-12.

Posted by Susan Reimer at 8:04 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Categories: Baltimore's Rawlings Conservatory

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Speaking of succulents! I am not getting into them this year, but at the Market this past Sunday morning, there was a a man selling a lovely selection of succulents.

Yes, I'm that woman who stops you to ask what that pretty stuff is in your basket and which stand it came from.

Posted by: Eve | May 4, 2010 10:50 AM

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Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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