The Family HandymanContainer Gardening TipsThe Family Handyman editor, Elisa Bernick shares hints and tips for container gardening to ensure you have beautiful, healthy potted plants. The ...

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).

If your trellis is looking bare, or you just love the look of a vine curling around your home or backyard, consider adding a mandevilla plant to add some color and beauty to your space. Not ...

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.

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

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.

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 ...

By George Weigel/The Patriot-News Q: I have a mandevilla that my son gave me for Mother's Day. It has grown very well and flowered all summer. Is there a way I can keep it over the winter? A: Yes ...