OLEANDER CULTIVARS

Numerous European oleander cultivars and in Europe commercially available cultivars are represented at the OLEANDER HOUSE.

The colors range from pure white through light pink, dark pink, red to dark red; from pale yellow to vanilla-yellow, and several shades of salmon. In each color there are both single-flowered and double-flowered varieties, sometimes hose-in-hose (that is, two superimposed corollas) forms as well.

The growth habits are just as varied – from dwarf forms to large, wide bushes or trees.

Many of the oleanders are young or just a few years old, but there are some specimens here which are decades old; some of then over 60 years old.

The cultivars by name
Alassio	magenta-pink, single, rain-resistant, long-blooming
Alsace	white (very pale pink), single, blooms even in unfavorable summers
Belle Helene	bright pink, single, long-blooming
Blue-Blanc Re D®	intense red with white streaks, double, blue-green foliage
Dr. Ragioneri	salmon, single, large flowers, robust branches
Emile Sahut	intense dark red, petal edges almost black, single
Geant des Batailles	intense red with white streaks, double, standard old variety (Correct name probably Commandant Barthélémy)
Grandiflorum	huge deep-pink blossoms, single, fragrant
Hardy Pink	bright pink, single, stems don’t get bare
Hardy Red	red, single, very wide petals, intensely-colored
Harriet Newding	white to light pink, variegated, single
Isle of Capri	cream-yellow with intense yellow throat, single, medium-sized shrub
Italia	red, single, one of the most frost-tolerant cultivar
Jannoch	fuchsia-red, single. Hardy, tolerant variety, long-blooming
Louis Pouget	huge light-pink flowers, double, very fragrant
Luteum Plenum	vanilla-yellow, double, fragrant, long-blooming
Madame Allen	light phlox-pink, double, fragrant
Madame Leon Blum	peach-colored, classic variety, single, floriferous
Magaly	phlox-pink, single, lightly fragrant, long-blooming
Maresciallo Graziani	light salmon-pink, throat yellow, single
Margaritha	bengal pink, single, lightly fragrant, floriferous; a connoisseur’s variety
Marie Gambetta	intense yellow, single, magnificent but temperamental, long-blooming
Marie Mauron®	deep pink, single, compact cultivar
Maurin des Maures®	deep pink, single, compact variety, long-blooming
Mont Blanc	pure white, hose-in-hose, fragrant, long-blooming
Mrs. Roeding	magenta-pink to salmon-pink, double, fragrant, floriferous
Oasis	lemon-yellow, double flowers, fragrant, cyclical bloomer
Petite Red	dwarf variety, dark red, single
Petite Salmon	dwarf variety, salmon, single
Prof. Granel	light red, hose-in-hose
Re D® JR 95-3	red, single, large windmill-shaped
Rosario	peach-pink to phlox-pink, double, large inflorescence
Roseum Plenum	peach-pink to reddish-pink, double, fragrant
Rubis	velvety dark red, triple or quadruple corollas, slightly fragrant
Sealy Pink	delicate pastel-pink, single, outstanding bloomer
Soeur Agnes	pure white, single, long-blooming,
Soleil Levant	deep peach color, single, yellow center, blooms from spring to midsummer
Souvenir de Michel	synonym 'Provence' salmon-pink, double, very fragrant
Souvenir des Iles Canaries	light yellow, single
Splendens Giganteum	pink, double, very fragrant; has been grown for centuries in winegrowing regions
Taurus	pink, single, from the Taurus Mountains of Turkey, high frost tolerance
Todra	pink, single, from the Todra canyon, High Atlas, Morocco, high frost tolerance
Turners Carnival	peach-colored, single, small flowers
Ville de Carpentras	azallea-pink to baby-pink, yellow center, hose-in-hose
Ville de la Londe	luminous cherry-red, single, long-blooming

To the blooming oleanders . . .