White Oleander

As low as $49.79 was $59.99
Availability: In stock
SKU
10002356

The White Oleander (Nerium oleander (white)) celebrates the natural world with its full leaves and clusters of blooms. This broadleaved evergreen is sure to create a lush and rich verdant feeling for your garden. The single white flowers produce a sweet and subtle scent.

If you love plants that burst with flowers in the summertime, this plant is sure to bring a smile to your face! Its stems hold an abundance of these modestly simple, yet elegant white flowers. And it flowers for weeks in the summer and will be filled with Hummingbirds, butterflies and bees!

Lush, lance-shaped year-round leaves are a rich green that really spotlights the white flowers. They also catch the wind and give a lively presence even when it's not in bloom. You'll love that graceful sense of motion in the landscape. Up close, the leaves and flowers look dainty, but from a distance, the shrub shows off a rougher texture.

Hardy throughout USDA growing zones 8 to 10, these fantastic shrubs grow 5-8 feet tall and 4-5 feet wide, readily climbing or remaining shrubby depending on how you train and use it! Heat, humidity and drought-tolerant, these are fantastic plants for xeric conditions and even coastal gardens! These are perfect accent plants in even the most aggressively warm climates.

In the home garden, care must be taken to avoid the highly toxic sap. While kids tend to steer clear of anything "green" like vegetables or Oleander, it's best to educate them early to leave this plant alone. Even though the leaves are extremely bitter and unpalatable, it is not a shrub recommended for use near stock animals. Some people also have a sensitivity to leathery Oleander leaves. Wear gloves to avoid skin irritation while handling.

Planting and Application:

You can enjoy these incredibly rugged and drought-resistant plants in so many ways in your landscape. Use this tough plant in hot, dry sites and xeriscape gardens where you need something "ironclad" that you won't have to mess with. Mix and match with other Olenader for pink and white variety!

White Oleander are quick growers to their full height and are perfect for hedges, making perfect large backdrops, borders, and around property edges. Be sure to select the right variety for your space. Give them enough room to reach their full size. Use them as a beautiful flowering windbreak at beach properties. Create living walls for special garden rooms or hide the more mundane utility areas of your garden.

Plant them in a staggered double row in a zig-zagging pattern. Mass them on tough, sunny sites, such as hills, and cascade down retaining walls. It's far easier and safer to allow them to grow to their full height and spread than trying to mow. Let clamber and sprawl without support down a hard-to-mow slope and slow erosion.

White Oleander also makes a wonderful container plant and patio accent plant and can be trained as a multi or single-trunk tree and make a great featured plant in the landscape! Although it is not cold hardy, people in colder climates can grow them as summer flowering container plants. In Zones 4 - 7, simply move them to an attached garage with a window in winter to protect them from the cold. Remember to water your containerized Oleander throughout winter!

  • Clusters of Gleaming White Scented Flowers
  • Bushy Full, Rich Evergreen Leaves
  • Screening or Specimen in Large Landscapes, Great in Containers
  • Historical Plant Used Throughout Asia, Africa & the Mediterranean
  • Not Recommended for Use Near Stock Animals
  • Teach Children to Leave Oleander Alone

#ProPlantTips for Care:

These rugged garden plants caught national interest, and they found their way from Texas across the entire country. Oleander thrives in Zones 8 - 10 and are well known for their ability to tolerate the harshest conditions, including drought, salt spray, reflected light from windows and painted walls, high heat and high humidity. It grows in either acid or alkaline soils.

Oleander is as drought-tolerant as a landscape shrub or tree can be. Water regularly for the first year and less the next year and needs very little supplemental water from then on. In containers, Oleanders require regular watering and must be fed a general-purpose fertilizer at least twice a season. Recommended application rate is once in the late winter and once on the late summer.

The plant is adapted to almost all soils and can even tolerate brief periods of flooding. However, overwatering can lead to yellowing leaves. Best to keep this arid native on the dry side with well-drained soil. When supplemental water is given, water the soil at the roots and keep the leaves dry. Apply a 2-inch layer of compost or arborist mulch under the plant each spring to retain moisture and control weeds.

Oleander Pruning

Oleander stays fresh and flowers with little assistance. However, you can prune it to encourage bushier growth and more flowers, and to reduce the size of the shrub. It blooms on new wood. It's best to Prune them after the summer blooms are finished.

Regularly remove damaged, crisscrossing or dead branches to keep your plants healthy. Be sure to bag and remove pruned branches from the site. The limbs and leaves should not be used as firewood or the limbs to cook with.

Once your plants are 10 years old, start a regular maintenance program of rejuvenation pruning. in spring, cut 1/3 of the oldest trunks off at the ground level in spring and remove them from your property. In a three-year period, you'll have a brand-new shrub without losing valuable height.

  • Full Sun
  • Any Well-Drained Soil
  • Salt-Tolerant & Works on the Coast
  • Drought Tolerant Once Established
  • "Plant It and Forget It" Tough
  • Prune After Flowering in Summer

Order these truly 'tough as nails' but beautiful White Oleanders today! You'll love these brilliant blooms and their beautiful and adaptable shrubs! Don't miss your chance - order today at NatureHills.com!

Buying Options for Plants

Nature Hills sells a large variety of plants with several options available. Plants are offered in both potted containers and as dormant bare root without soil. Here is a helpful resource to understand your options as you create a beautiful landscape with help from Nature Hills.

Ever wonder what a larger plant will mean for your landscape? Container Sizes are really all about the age of the plant!

Seasonally, Nature Hills offers hand selected, high quality bare root trees, shrubs and perennials. Bare root plants are sold by height from the top of the root system to the top of the plant. Plants may be taller than the height minimums.

  • Popular sizes of select trees are 1 foot, 2 feet, 3 feet, etc.
  • Popular sizes of select bare root plants is 1 foot, 18 inches, etc.

Nature Hills Container Size by Volume

Keep in mind, specific varieties and different growing conditions can affect the rate at which plants grow. Variations in size may occur.

Young Plants to 18 Months
Size Volume
2"x2"x3" Ranges from .18 to .21 dry quarts / .198 to .23 dry liters in volume
4.5" Container Equal to .65 dry quart / .72 dry liter in volume
Sprinter Pot Equal to .63 dry quart / .69 dry liter in volume
4" Container Ranges from .31 to .87 / .35 to .96 dry liter in volume
6" Container Equal to 1.4 dry quarts / 1.59 dry liters in volume
1 Quart Equal to 1 dry quart / 1.1 dry liter in volume
5.5" Container Equal to 1.89 of a dry quart / 2.08 dry liters in volume
4"x4"x5" Ranges from .8 to 1.1 dry quarts / .88 to 1.2 dry liters in volume
4"x4"x6" Ranges from 1.0 to 1.3 dry quarts / 1.1 to 1.41 dry liters in volume
4"x4"x9" Ranges from 1.1 to 2.1 dry quarts / 1.2 to 2.3 dry liters in volume
4"x4"x10" Ranges from 1.7 to 2.3 dry quart / 1.87 to 2.53 dry liters in volume
Plants 18 Months - 2.5 Years Old
Size Volume
2 Quart Equal to 2 dry quarts / 2.2 dry liters in volume
#1 Container Ranges from 2.26 to 3.73 dry quarts / 2.49 to 4.11 dry liters in volume
5"x5"x12" Equal to 3.5 to 4.3 dry quarts / 3.85 to 4.74 dry liters in volume
Plants 2 - 4 Years Old
Size Volume
#2 Container Ranges from 1.19 to 1.76 dry gallons / 5.24 to 7.75 dry liters in volume
#3 Container Ranges from 2.32 to 2.76 dry gallons / 10.22 to 12.16 dry liters in volume
Plants 3 - 5 Years Old
Size Volume
#5 Container Ranges from 2.92 to 4.62 dry gallons / 12.86 to 20.35 dry liters in volume
#6 Container Ranges from 5.25 to 6.01 dry gallons / 23.12 to 26.42 dry liters in volume
#7 Container Ranges from 5.98 to 6.08 dry gallons / 26.34 to 26.78 dry liters in volume

About Plant Sentry™

Plant Sentry is designed to protect both consumers and the nursery trade from invasive plant pests and diseases. Sites that display the Plant Sentry protection badge are protected from consumers buying and nurseries shipping material carrying invasive pests and diseases.

This proprietary eCommerce software prevents the shipment of a restricted plant to each state. The Plant Sentry system includes a shipment certification program. The Plant Sentry Compliance Officer works closely with NatureHills.com and each nursery or fulfillment center to ensure only compliant plants are sold to customers.

Click Here to learn more

Plant Sentry

Shipping

To obtain a more accurate shipment time-frame, simply enter your zip code in the “Find Your Growing Zone” box to the right. Our plants are grown all over the country and lead time on items may be different because of this. Once your order is placed, you will also receive the specific shipment time-frame information as part of your order confirmation. Once an item ships, you will receive shipment notification and tracking numbers, so you can follow along while your plant travels to your doorstep. We use FedEx, UPS, or USPS at our discretion.

Due to winter weather we have put a hold on shipping to the areas shown below in grey. You can still order now and we will ship the plant to you during an appropriate time for your zone.

*If you have found your zone already, it will be highlighted in the table below.
Color Zone Times
3 Spring 2019
4 Now
5 Now
6 Now
7 Now
8 Now
9 Now
10 Now
11 Now

Shipping Rates

At Nature Hills we handle, package and ship the products you order with the utmost care to ensure healthy delivery. Shipping and handling charges are calculated based on the tables below. Please note that some items include an additional handling surcharge, these will be noted on the item's product page.

From To S&H
0 - 19.99 24.99
20 - 49.99 29.99
50 - 69.99 34.99
70 - 99.99 39.99
100 - 129.99 44.99
130 - 149.99 48.99
150 - 150+ Approx 28%

Click here to see our full rates

PLANT HIGHLIGHTS

White Oleander Is Suited to Grow in Zones 8-10
Growing Zones 8-10
More Information
Brand Nature Hills' Choice
Botanical Name Nerium oleander (white)
Type Broad-Leaved Evergreen
Mature Height 5 - 8 feet
Mature Spread 4 - 5 feet
Sun Exposure Full Sun
Soil Well Drained
Moisture Low Once Established
Growth Rate Medium
Foliage Color Green
Pollinator Friendly Yes
Pruning Time After Flowering
Fragrant Yes