Information
Care
During this season, especially in warm weather, the Corazón® is really in
its element.
Summer:
Every Corazón® Oleander will be supplied with a Corazón information booklet containing tips for care.
Watering: Throughout the summer season, the Corazón® Oleander needs watering almost every day. If it constantly has sufficient water, it will flower best, but make sure excess water is allowed to flow freely from the pot and keep adding fertiliser for fourteen days. If you are using slowly released compost, you may add a second helping of compost to the pot or the soil in July.
If the Oleander starts developing yellow leaves at the bottom of its branches, this is usually due to the fact that it does not get enough water or was dry at some point in time.
Predators: Oleanders may sometimes be plagued by:
Plant lice: often green to yellow, sometimes black. There is always a number of them together, preferably on the youngest sprouts. Fight with a combination of soap and methylated spirits (20 gr. of liquid soap and 10 gr. of methylated spirits diluted in 1 litre of water). Spray the solution over the plant. If you want to fight plant lice well, this process should be repeated once a week, for several weeks in a row.
Scale insects: brown, wax-like wing-cases underneath which the lice hide, usually along the stems and underneath the older leaves. The wing-cases make them hard to combat. Therefore, start by carefully removing them with the help of a toothbrush. Only after that, you should fight them with soapy methylated spirits or stinging nettle extract (let 100 gr. of fresh stinging nettle leaves soak for 24 hrs in one litre of water; put this through a sieve and spray it out over the plant). For successful fighting of scale insects, the process should be repeated once every week, for several weeks in a row.
Red spider mites: small reddish mites that start appearing underneath the young leaves and then spread out all over the plant. The leaves take on a yellow/grey colour. Fight them with soapy meths, stinging nettle extract, but especially with garlic tea (squeeze out a medium-sized clove of garlic and pour a litre of boiling water over it. Let it cool down, sieve it and then spray it out over the plant, paying particular attention to the bottom side of the leaves. For successful fighting of red spider mites, this should be repeated once a week, for several weeks in a row.
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