Hardy Red Oleander Bush – 3 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 8a-11 (7a & 7b?)  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Evergreen Flowering Shrub

Flower Color:  Bright Red

Flower Size: 2-3″ 

Flowering Period:  Summer

Flower Type:  Single

Fragrant Flowers:  No

Foliage Color:  Green

Fragrant Foliage:  No

Berries:  No

Berry Color:  NA

Attracts:  Visual Attention

Resistances:  Deer – more info, Disease, Drought, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbit, Salt Tolerance

Hardy to 10 degrees F, Hardy Red Oleander is considered to be the standard by which all other Oleander are compared for cold hardiness. But the fine attributes don’t stop with cold hardiness. During summer, this beauty sports abundant clusters of large, trumpet shape, bright red flowers at the ends of almost every stem. Its long narrow leaves are a beautiful rich green with a white stripe at the center that runs the length of the leaf. No other Oleander will survive the coldest of winters of USDA Zone 8, however Hardy Red sails right through!  

* During harsh winters Hardy Red Oleander is known to die back to the ground in USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 7 however will grow back from the roots

Growing 8 to 10 feet tall and 6 to 8 feet wide, the Hardy Red Oleander is ideal for use as a focal point specimen, in groupings, or as a colorful hedge in sunny landscape borders. A fine addition to tropical gardens, tropical-look gardens, rock gardens, red gardens, and the Xeriscape (low water needs).

Suggested Spacing:  4 to 5 feet apart for solid hedges; 12 feet or more apart for space between plants

Note:  For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 8a, where this Oleander variety may die back to the ground, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Oleander is very easy to grow in most any well-drained moist soil of average fertility and full to mostly sun for best flowering. During the first year it requires a moist soil to become established. After that the plant is exceptionally drought tolerant. It does not require pruning however can be trimmed for shape in late winter, before new leaves flush. 

Note:  Find helpful advice from our experts under the Planting & Care tab above on desktop monitors or below on mobile devices. 

Caution:  All parts of Oleander are poisonous. Do not ingest any part of this plant and avoid planting it near where horses, cows, and other animals graze.