If you can please post pictures of it.

I have one that stayed outside all year when I lived in Z10, and now it stays out most of the year. When I worked at Duke Garden center in Venice, we potted ours in a potting mix with a lot of peat moss mixed 50/50 with perlite and planted them in clay pots. hat's always worked for me. Be sure to put the pots up off the ground. I put mine on a paver. Watch out for sunburn. Mine got sunburned and now the trunk has a lot of ugly scaly scars, but it just makes it more interesting to me.

puglvr - that is one gorgeous plant! I tried to years to get mine bushy like that, then a friend who is sort of an expert says I have the wrong type for bushiness, and it will never be bushy. Made me sad.

I live in Sarasota. I do not water my Desert Rose at all. It goes through the dry months just fine. When it rains, it doesn't both it. I do plant in orchid mix which is mostly small pine bark mixed with some sphagnam moss and perlite.

Mine grow totally dry as I do not water them!

Jane

Jane, I water mine once every two weeks in the winter, but that's because it's indoors a lot in dryer air. Once it goes outdoors full time, I start fertilizing it once every two weeks until it starts raining, then I fertilize once a month. I tried using timed-release fertilizer on it, but it does better with the liquid bloom food when it's outside.

Thanks DG!! I know what you mean about certain desert roses that doesn't have the characteristic that makes them grow bushy...I did lucky when I bought this one at HD 12-13 years ago, way before I really knew what they are and hot to grow them Lol...

I too water mine more often that any Jades or Succulents especially because I do have mine growing in a media that drains well...it appreciates the extra water especially in Spring and Fall when we get very little rain. In winter I only water every 10-14 days or whenever the sprinkler hits it.

desert roses (when growing )can use lots of water and fertilizer and respond accordingly. witholdng water and food only slows them down... I currently have a few that did not freeze this past winter.... my bad...that are enjoying weekly feedings. this is from people that wrote the book on adenium care. Dr Dimmit says to treat adenium as a tomato plant when in active growth.

https://www.amazon.com/Adenium-Sculptural-Elegance-Floral-Extravagance/dp/B0049XOFK0

Rain protection is really not needed as long as temps are not down in the forty's or lower. What is very important with adeniums s that the mix be very fast draining and yet hold some moisture. I used to make my own mix with coir, pine bark fines, builder sand and perlite and NEVER had any rot issues and I grew several hundred seeds from taiwan and thailand to 6 inch pots, all blooming normal.