How do you keep a Desert Rose,(Adenium Obesum), from growing to big?
How can you keep a plant Adenium Osesum from growing too big?
My mom’s plant Desert Rose is growing too big, and I was wondering how can she keep it small?
My mom wants to know if cutting the plant down into a ball will work?
I found a website for you and some info about size control and pruning.
http://www.hort.wisc.edu/mastergardener/Features/indoor-tenderplants/desert%20rose/adenium.htm
Size Control and Pruning
In nature, Adenium obesum can assume the proportions of a large shrub or small tree. However, they live quite happily if their size is restricted, and they will bloom faithfully. Size can be restricted by under-potting. The plant in the picture on the first website is about 20 years old, is about 20 inches tall, and is in a 9 inch pot.
Adenium Hybrids Collection eBay-silla–glamour
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Desert Rose Plant – Natural Bonsai – Adenium obesum $5.99 The Desert Rose is a native of East Africa. It will grow from 6 1/2 to 10 feet in the wild. It has fleshy leaves and beautiful 2-inch pink open-trumpet shaped flowers. It is a succulent, and forms more of a bush than a tree. It makes an excellent house plant or indoor bonsai. Needs lots of light and fresh air. Keep in a bright location in winter. In summer, if possible, move outdoors to a sunny or… |
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Desert Rose 10 Seeds – Adenium obesum $3.80 Adenium obesum. A necessary plant for those that collect caudiciforms (swollen trunks), or uncommon succulents. Adenium obesum is slow growing and thick stemmed with a smooth trunk that becomes very swollen and somewhat contorted with age. Adenium obesum known for its carmine-rose flowers and unique trunk. Always in great demand. A unique genus from Madagascar which develops a fleshy swollen trun… |
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Bonsai Boy’s Flowering Desert Rose Bonsai Tree(Adenium Obesum) $195.00 Native to East Africa and relative of the Plumeria. Small succulent tree that grows only about 8′ in the wild, has fleshy leaves and forms a bulbous base. Produces exotic 2″ pink, white and red open trumpet shaped flowers throughout the year in full sun. Needs little water during winter. All plant nuts love these. Great for indoors…. |
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