A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Plants and Flowers Forum Mandevilla

I've did a search on Mandevilla, seems none here cause it comes up zero.

How many of you have Mandvilla? I need to find out about the transfering from one flower bed to another. I was concerned of the "tubers", (look like miniature sweet potatoes), rather if broke off will it sprout back out again?

Never mind, I called a home owned garden center; yes you can plant those if there are roots attached. They could not answer how long it would take till it started growing, but it will happen.

Moi

well I had never heard of this plant before so of course my
curiosity got me and I had to google it, had 39,000 results.
Its quite a lovely plant, I must say and seems to come in
a variety of colors.
This link has a little info and a picture........

http://www.plant-care.com/mandevilla-trellis.html

hope this helps, and I hope its ok to post a link here.

Thanks for the link, Arizona_Alice, now that you know a litte bit about them, bet you want to have one.

Here's my mandevilla, this pic was taken last summer.

That is beautiful.

oohhh, I likey!

it most certainly is!!!!!

Talk about timing! My daughter bought me one of these and I was wondering if I could plant it next to my chainlink fence because it is mostly vine. I live in S. California--anyone know about that?

Yes, Jesslyn. I live in SoCal too and it should do well on your fence. What color did you get? I just bought a red flowering one today.

She got me a white one. I put it outside while I decide what to do with it. It started with one flower and in just a few days its now covered in flowers. Also, the vine shot out in just the last couple of days as well. I am glad I can get it into the ground because I've got about 5 inches of vine seeking some support! :)

Most S. Cal flowery vines are pink, red or fuschia so I think the white will make a nice contrast to most yards.

They had the dark rich red ones at my local garden center. They wanted 35.00 bucks for them. needless to say there was no way I could afford them. But I definitely drooled over it.

check at another place TK. That's seems a little much.

That is beautiful!!!

Tk, I went to a local hardware store this afternoon and found a gigantic one for $20.00. I got a smaller one for 11.29. Look around if you really want one.

those 'tubers' are not actually tubers in the sense that you cannot use them to propagate more vines. We're still not sure what they're there for - our best guess would be that they are a type of water storage organ for the vine. They are supposed to be there - just treat them like any other root system

I had a mandevilla a couple years ago. It was beautiful. Unfortunately they can't take our winters here. I put it in the basement for the winter but it never came back too good the next year. I love them though!!