piksihk said:Donald, I do love the blooms but it is getting to be a 'thug' - the vines are so long and reaching every which way -
so it needs to be contained...they self-root on the ground.
The allamanda 'cherries jubilee' is blooming for the first time and it will be on my favorites list...
The 'Mexican Flame Vine' is growing, but currently all the blooms are spent and I'm not seeing any new buds.
What's the difference between 'Allamanda' and 'Mandevilla'? Does anyone know? I went to the database too look at Allamanda 'Cherries Jubilee' and the bloom, leaves and vine look just like what I bought this year as a Mandevilla except mine is red. So I went to search out Mandevillas in the database and other 'Allamandas'. I'm missing something somewhere, I think. Except for the shrubby yellow Allamandas, I'm not being able to distinguish them. My original Mandevilla looks different from the new one I have and different from the Allamanda photos. Now I'm wondering even more what I'm growing. All of these are obviously closely kin, but there should be something that distinguishes them as plants.
This year for the first time I grew a Canna seedling in full, sun. Needs water every day, but that was the case anyway. The bloom clusters grown in the sun are much more dense with a lot more of them. That makes these small blooms show up pretty well and the hummingbirds always like them. I kept them more because I was using the foliage to screen things. That's still why
but the blooms are a bonus.
