I asked my friends in Australia if I could post some photo's of two plants that they where digging up from their garden to put in Huge Bowls. This is truly an amazing job and what fantastic plants.

First two photo's are of the most recent one they dug up.







These next two photo's are of the first one they dug and it is in the new bowl.











Thank you to C & R.

Rick

Wow, Rick! Thanks for sharing these pics. I had thought to grow my adeniums in raised beds but wasn't willing to do the extra work and buy materials to keep slugs, snails, weeds, chickens and cats out of them. But to get faster growth and large caudexes would certainly be worth the effort!

Those are amazing! I'm going to show these pics to my babies when I get home to encourage them to grow!

Wow! What beautiful plants! I have been pondering on putting one in the ground here just to see what happens. There is one a few blocks away that is fairly large--maybe 5 ft tall. Maybe i'll have one that large by the time I am 70 or 80.

So that's what they look like when they grow up! Thanks for sharing the photos!

Holy moly -- that is truly impressive! How long does it take for a plant to get to that size (asked the newbie adenium owner) ?

I am not sure of the age. My friend has been growing Adeniums and producing remarkable crosses for many years.
They have Adeniums, Plumeria & Pachypodiums as part of their landscape in their garden.

Rick

for sharing. i'm absorbing and learning !

I'm new to adeniums and have 12 of them, some are blooming and some 6 mo to 2 yrs, and bought a 10 yr old 1.5 ' by 1.5' just recently so I've been reading forums as much as I could to take care of all my babies. Is it better to just use a time release fertilizer than the Dyna Gro liquid ones, for growth, and for bloom?

I just use the Excalibur fertilizer for plumeria and I think it works great. Available from Florida Colors. Less work too.
Michael