KD,
Love your Adenium survivor story! Great job rejuvenating that old Adenium, she is beauty as are all of those others you have propagated and accumulated .... looks like you could open your very own "KD's Desert Rose Emporium".
About 15 years ago I tried a Desert Rose for the very first time; it quickly rotted and died from being planted in a heavy soil and left out in the open during many weeks of heavy rains. I never gave them another thought ... until visiting my sister earlier this year. She had a huge specimen that a friend had given her and she loved it so much that she bought another one and every time I'd visit her I'd look at those beauties and think I really need one! I think she has three now. I wonder what it is about certain plants that we just can't say no when we see them?
Last March, my husband and I bought a house down the street from my sister and brother-in-law where we will retire next year and while cleaning and getting it ready for tenants my sister noticed a dead looking plant sitting on the ground and said "Hey, that looks like a Desert Rose" and indeed it was. The plant didn't have a single leaf and the branches were very soft and soggy in places. My sis thought I was going to throw it in the trash because she thought it was dead but I told her I was keeping it along with some little unknown rhizomes that I found in the bottom of a soil-less, empty clay pot. I had no idea what those things were but I figured I'd plant them and find out. Turns out the little rhizomes were Peacock Ginger and they grew and bloomed just like the rescued Desert Rose. I cut the rotted branches of the Adenium and sprinkled cinnamon on the cuts, re-potted her in a well draining potting medium and waited and she's recuperated just fine and even graced me with a couple of blooms this summer.
A couple of months later (early May) I was at Walmart and bought another small Desert Rose ... then in June I was at Home Depot and spotted a big beautiful Desert Rose plant for $19.95 and I just couldn't pass it up, then a couple of weeks after that I happened to be at Lowes and spotted a small Adenium with double blooms that just happened to jump in my cart! So, now I have four Desert Roses, which I'm pretty sure is my limit.
KD, I've learned a lot about these lovely plants from you and others here on ATP and I understand your word of caution that one may likely become two or three ... or more!!
