Flowering Desert Rose for Pots & Patio – Live Plant
$17.60 – $52.80
Art you can water. This Desert Rose grows from a caudex that twists and swells into a natural bonsai form, then tops it with clusters of vivid pink, red, or white flowers. Compact enough for pots and bright windowsills, it loves heat.
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This one arrives as a live plant, ready to pot up and sit on a patio table. Desert rose in bloom is a genuinely odd sight — bare sculptural branches with fat pink trumpets on the ends — and it is far more striking in a pot than in the ground.
Why grow Flowering Desert Rose for Pots & Patio
Adenium is a container plant by nature. Its caudex swells most dramatically when the roots are restricted, and a pot lets you move it under cover for winter, which is essential anywhere below zone 10. Plants grown in containers also flower earlier and more freely than garden-planted ones.
How to plant and care for it
Keep it in the smallest pot the caudex will allow — a tight fit encourages swelling. Gritty mix, full sun, water only when dry. On a patio, stand the pot where it gets the most afternoon sun and raise it on feet so water drains freely. Bring indoors before night temperatures drop below 10 °C and cut watering right back until spring.
Quick facts
| Botanical name | Adenium obesum |
| Type | Live plant, ships bare-root |
| Flower colour | Pink to red |
| Height | 25–45 cm |
| Light | Full sun on patio |
| Water | Only when dry right through |
| Soil | Gritty cactus mix |
| Hardiness | USDA 10–12; over-winter indoors |
| Pot size | Keep tight to swell the caudex |
| Toxicity | Sap is toxic |
| Number of Products | 1Bulbs, 2Bulbs, 3Bulbs, 4Bulbs, 5Bulbs |
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| Color | A, B, C, D, E |
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