At first I couldn't understand why we'd need to know that you bought fudge covered egg yolks, but I get now.

Umm, I got 'outed' and this is now my replacement (awaiting confirmation), if this is also out of stock, I think it was not meant to be and will just get a refund.Photo

It's a yellow with pink edging. Tong Lhung Pra

Do you put your Adeniums outside in summer?

The only things in the house that don't go out are african violets, a few other gesneriads with plush leave, and an aloe that squirrels like.

Did you lose the other from all the rain? It was hard on my succulents. Don't desert Rose's need really good drainage?

You address that by providing the proper media with excellent drainage.

I put them in a good mix, but the Euporbia resinfera still got some rot. I need to stop buying succulents that have to be over wintered. There's just not enough indoor light here for them, and it's a hassle keeping them under lights all winter. I have a nice San Pedro cactus and Senecio Haworthii, and others that will just freeze. The Dregea sinensis never bloomed and it has to be over wintered too, but it would be alright in zn 7. I was hoping for very fragrant hoya like flowers, oh well! I was spraying aphids off them at least twice a day. Oh no you don't, not on my Dregea!!! I just asked to join the Adenium group on facebook. They must decide if I'm worthy (probably not) and then interrogate me. This is so I can browse. I'm not at all into facebook mindset, but I'm in the Asclepias group because I'll do anything to get what I want lol.

So I would say you could send me your plants that are going to die anyway..but I have enough of my own to overwinter. Luckily overwintering is usually just 5 months for me (Nov-Mar).

I would send them to you if you wanted them and had room. I'll still grow some tropicals as annuals. I get under this delusion that I live in South Africa. Yeah, and if I had to choose between cacti and orchids, and had conditions for both, I'd go the orchid way. I did send some Dregeas and Calotropis down south. I have Calotropis out of my system now and am focusing on the native milkweeds. How did your new showy milkweed and Rhexia do their first year, So sorry for going off topic! :)

Both did fine...though they faced challenges (esp to the milkweed) of flooding. I'm sure I'll have LOTS next year. Rhexia is still flowering.

The milkweed didn't flower, but I did get two fairly mature stems, I'm sure it'll flower next year (being three years old then).

I did some flowers that bloomed the first year from seed. Elephantopus caroliniana, Symphyotrichum laeve, Rumex altissima,(butterfly plant), Agrimonia, Verbena habitat, Ratibida, Gaillardia, Asclepias perennis, Hieracium auranticum. I added some Trilliums, erecta, grandiflora, and nivale in the spring. The erecta grew and some fowered. The two white ones never appeared. All the real fancy species I got like Clintonia umbellata, Stelanthium gramieum, and Streptopus lanceolatus were very small sized, and no telling when they'll bloom, if they'll bloom. I should get a bunch flower now, because that will take years to bloom too. I had about 10 showy milkweed seedlings. They would have done better without so much rain but most are hanging on. There's s guy selling variegata plants on the facebook grow milkweed group. He's in Texarkana and digging up all the variegatas in the woods and selling them. In areas designated to be logged he says, we hope. I did visit a lot of prairies this year, and I never saw cardinal flower at any of them. The blue yes, and I saw royal catchfly. Maybe it just doesn't do well here?

My thoughts are that cardinal flower is a true southerner, it doesn't deal well with long winters (imo).

I'm growing more native hummingbird plants anyway, so if that Lobelia doesn't want to thrive and self sow for me forget it. I have 3 Ipomopsis rubra that have been slow going all season and are around 5" tall. They've been in the ground for awhile. I'm wondering if they will survive the winter like they do in Texas? Have a strange feeling maybe I tried it once before and it didn't work.There are some winter annuals up here. I want to grow like Collinsia verna, blue eyed Mary's, and they germinate about this time. Of course like most of the plants I lust for, you can't find seeds or plants anywhere, and have to actually go out and hunt them down. It's so rewarding tho. I saw Native American Seed has seeds for one of those nice little native Clematis, maybe pitcheri. I tried rooting cuttings of viorna, but they kept rotting, and on the third trip to get cuttings I found the spot mowed and the vines wiped out. I think they are tricky to grow from seed too.

Yes, I supplied seeds many years ago of Collinsia, made a friend that I've gardened with (email wise) for years.

I've grown C texensis from seed. Took 2-3 years to germinate. And at least three more to flower.

I've grown pitcheri, it's a good little clematis. I ordered crispa Sunday, deciding swamp clematis should do well on my land.

You don't have any Collinsia now? I'm getting them regardless. I know the woods they grow at. Just not the exact spots, and they sound like they might be off trail. I was hiking with the steward of that woods yesterday. Well, I joined the native plant society. They are more tied in with the forest preserves and activities. It was great, I met some of them yesterday, and it was awesome being with others like myself.

No, that was a house ago...and I found them to be very transient (there one year, not there the next).

Not so much to be pedantic, I just love it so much I hate calling the wrong name. Erigenia bulbosa the most exquisite jewel. I mixed it up with the Cicuta bulbifera.

Ok, so this baby arrived today. After it goes dormant should I leave it be or should I tip prune it to force branching?

Did you ever find any Conradina verticillata? So, if a place out of state has it, they can't ship it to another state because it's threatened?

Err Jay, thanks for helping me stay on topic here so that I actually got the answers I wanted, versus being totally ignored because no one wants to wade through the thread.

However, here's my off topic reply, why bother trying to keep on topic now. In fact, I'd remove this thread from adeniums and put it somewhere else, if I could.

When Sunshine Nursery closed this summer, I was lucky enough to pick up one. For fear of drowning it by planting in the ground, it will be a pot plant until I get some cuttings rooted next spring.

I'm sorry I suppressed the stream of comments you most likely would have had without my meddling, but I stayed away for a few days hoping someone would respond to you. Maybe try the cacti and succulent forum. Maybe this is just another dead forum, and you'll be waiting forever? You already knew the answer anyways and just wanted to chat so....

Oh gods, I forgot the 'question'. I actually wanted to know whether I should prune it now or wait till spring. This is only my 2nd adenium, I don't know all the answers yet.

Almost every forum (sadly) is mostly a dead forum now days...part of my annoyance I think.

I requested the seed list from the IAS. They might have some rare Adenium seeds. If they do I'll let you know. Hurray, you have your answer. Things are pretty dead, aren't they. slim pickins

Thanks Katie, well that's the easiest advise and the one most sure to yield me flowers next spring, so I'll certainly try it. I was concerned if I should try to encourage branching before they get too long.

The same advise about haircuts applies I guess, 'much harder to glue it back on'.