Jody, I'm not having the best of luck with calyptratum either. I have two of them, one is just languishing and the other is growing 4 nice strong leaves, both were healthy bulbs from the start, from Komoriya. Both growing in the same type pots and the same soil, go figure! I will admit though that one of them was the yellowish colored one and the other the normal green, both bloomed and now I don't know which is which!! Then I bought a tiny one from Telos and so far, that is still alive.... Donna

I have seen a few growing inground in Lahaina, Maui. Where very beautiful. I believe in Kahului as well. I would think as long as they where planted with some could free draining material underneath and around root zone. I wonder if the Nematodes that destroy vegetable grown in the ground would effect Adeniums. You would think with their Sap that it would not be favorable?

Yes, thanks! It looks different than the other type we have growing everywhere, been trying not to let them go to seed

I am another one whose taste has not changed, at all. I have spent the past few days since this query was put up wondering if I was being honest with myself. Surely something has changed over the years, but it hasn't. My horizons may have broadened, I may have seen more things, but the style I like is capacious and has always accommodated that kind of eclecticism. I have not pared down my aesthetic as many have. I was brought up in a family with very strict feelings about overcrowding surfaces and the need for space around beloved objects- my grandmother was more sparse than my mother, but neither could abide jumbles of things. I still have the art I bought as a young teenager at small exhibit at Rizzoli in NYC. I was very proud of my purchase. I love him as much now as I did then, maybe more for all the time he and I (it's a small portrait) have spent together. There are fashion items that enter my house and then leave eventually, I suppose. I had some very pastel/Miami Vice colored cereal bowls from Williams-Sonoma in grad school. I would not have those today- they are very late 80s early 90s and not in a Memphis kind of way. I could imagine picking something like those up again, but according to today's whims, like the ubiquitous bamboo handled cutlery I see on everyone's IG (turns out that flatware costs way more than I would spend on a fashion item, for me, but if it were cheaper, I might have gotten some.)