Oleanders

The Melanesians have, I think, twenty-nine flower gardens, and they bring the flowers, of flowers, and the oleanders are a sight! ❋ Yonge, Charlotte M (1873)

“What beautiful flowers,” Kit chirped as Datura fussed with a vase of bright red oleanders on the end table. ❋ Dia Reeves (2011)

Perhaps some of the most striking natural features of the property are a 500-year-old towering plane tree, which rests between the main building and the Queen's pavilion, and the colorful bushels of bamboo, azaleas, hydrangeas, oleanders, rhododendrons and camellias landscaped in elaborate patterns and designs throughout. ❋ Maria Russo (2011)

Occasional oleanders appear on the roadside in explosions of red, white and fuchsia. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And some plants are toxic to goats including ornamentals such as azaleas, oleanders and rhododendrons. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Named after the Arabic word for the oleanders that had been planted along its avenues, in a futile attempt to soften the ferocity of the desert sun, Habbaniya may have been dull, but its conveniences made the harsh desert conditions tolerable. ❋ Donald Sturrock (2010)

The yard beyond our villa was lush with cyprus, yellow oleanders and lemon trees that produced fruit as large as grape-fruits. ❋ Richard Paul Evans (2010)

The air was cool and moist and filled with the sweet scent of the Capri oleanders. ❋ Richard Paul Evans (2010)

I heard chanting, sudden grunting, shouts and mutters, and then creeping toward the pool, peeking past the monkeypod and through the oleanders that hid the fence, I saw the torchlight, the gleaming bodies -- Hawaiian men in loincloths and Hawaiian women in ti-leaf skirts slapping fat calabash gourds they called _ipo_. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Many of those places simply didn't exist anymore -- it had been a long while since the days when Hurston would set off in her houseboat of a car and bid a "hasty goodbye to Eatonville's oaks and oleanders." ❋ Rebecca Bengal (2010)

While we were driving past a freeway median planted with oleanders, the sprinkler system went on. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I glimpsed a well-tended garden, pensive and secluded, full of oleanders and roses glowing in morning light. ❋ Elle Newmark (2008)

Coming home I liked to put suntan lotion on my arms, face and legs and go running down the quiet streets of oleanders and palms and along the drainage canal banked with red dirt. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

She was like an [oleander], beautiful [on the outside] but [poisonous] on the inside. ❋ Oleander Gurl (2010)

Oleanders are beautiful [flowers], but do not be [fooled]. It's [toxicity] could kill you. ❋ Knowledgeable Soccer Gal (2019)

To yourself in mirror before big sales meeting with that one douche director of corporate who's [all like] ugh: "Go in there [Terrence] and [oleander] them like you know you will!" ❋ Willicuss (2014)

What set you [claim]? Oleander Set [Crips] [cuz]! ❋ Eazz (2006)

[Such a] [nice] Oleander, [that one]. Snakkes... ❋ Haspen-icedock (2022)

"wow [look at this] betuful [plant]" "STAYYYYY AWAYYYYY!!!!!! THAT [OLEANDER]!!!!!" ❋ Joyful Coffee (2021)