If you live in a cooler climate, mandevilla is best treated as an annual that you plant in containers (and can possibly move into a greenhouse or indoors during the winter).

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For best success, try growing it in a large container. Dipladenia begins to flower in the Valley around April or when the nighttime temperatures reach 50 degrees.

Fielding Questions: Hoya troubles, overwintering mandevilla, potato storage In this week's Fielding Questions, Don Kinzler offers tips for treating an ailing hoya plant, wintering mandevilla and more.

Prevent lawn weeds before they sprout with preemergence herbicide: Dan Gill's garden advice And, bring mandevilla pots inside during freezes.

Answer: Mandevilla vines are not reliably hardy on the north shore. In some winters, it even gets cold enough in New Orleans to kill them. But if you plant a vine in April after the freeze danger ...

Prevent lawn weeds before they sprout with preemergence herbicide: Dan Gill's garden advice And, bring mandevilla pots inside during freezes.