28 May 2010, Mandevilla

such a beautiful plant

Yes indeed. I adore Mandavilla.

A friend sent me two of these she'd grown from seed (white) last year, said they may need winter protection, so put one outside, and moved it into the unheated greenhouse over winter, and one in the sunroom the one indoors died !!!!!but the other is doing well no flowers yet though. The pinks lovely:-)

Grew from seed!? Wow. That's too difficult for me.. therefore, I had to resort to more expensive measures :( But I'm very pleased with both of them, pink and white. Anyway, what was wrong with the sunroom, I wonder??? Did you cut them right back? My friend takes hers indoors (living room) every winter and moves it outdoors at the very end of May or early June, and it was gorgeous last summer. She has a pink one and I fell in love with it; love at first sight :)

I had a lovely red one of these in a pot, but lost it over Winter, even though we had put it under a cloche to protect it, guess it just wasn't warm enough to keep it going. Was very sad to lose it, as they are so lovely in full bloom! :~((((

Ohhhh Flori, so sorry to hear that :( Red ones are sooooo lovely too. I want to get one sometime

Don't know Tommymoo certainly warmer than the greenhouse, anyway the second ones doing really well, put it in a larger pot the other day with a support and already climbing it so better not loose this one.