Balcony
Oleander
Nerium oleander
- Cat: toxic
- Dog: toxic
- Light: full sun
About the plant
The oleander comes from the region stretching from the Mediterranean to Asia. It flowers freely in summer on a sunny balcony and spends the winter somewhere cool and bright. All its parts are highly poisonous to people and animals.
Oleander and pets
- Cat
- toxic
- Dog
- toxic
- Signs
- cardiac glycosides: drooling, abdominal pain, diarrhoea, depression, can kill
One of the most poisonous garden plants, for people too: keep it away from animals and children.
If a cat or a dog ate this plant and shows signs, contact a vet straight away.
Instead: safe for cats and dogs
Care
- Watering
- about every 2 days in summer (April to September), every 10 in winter
- Light
- full sun
- Air humidity
- low
- Temperature
- 5–32 °C
- On a balcony in winter
- stands a light frost (down to -5 °C), but take it indoors or cover it well before a hard one
- Feeding
- April to August, every 2 weeks
- Repotting
- every 2 years, in spring
- Grown
- in a pot
In summer on the sunniest balcony, with plenty of water. It winters in a bright, cool place (5–10 °C).
This is a rough guide for a flat in Poland. In flowers every plant also has its own watering interval, which learns from how the soil was.