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lilybeth22 Portsmouth, NH Aug 12, 2007

Hi I am new to this website but I have enjoyed it already, I live in New Hampshire and bought my Mom for Mother's day a white mandevilla, it is beautiful , many many flowers and buds , living in the north I was wondering if there is anything I can do for the winter to keep this wonderful plant going? Thank you

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WeeNel Ayrshire Scotland, United Kingdom Aug 12, 2007

Hi lilybeth, your lovely Mandevilla, like all plants, will be indoors in the North, the autumn/winter will be it's resting period, so you will be just watering enough to prevent the soil from going completely dry, these plants do go quite tall and need to be grown on a climbing frame of some sort, deadhead the flowers as they fade, they have a white milky sap where you remove flowers of any other part of the plant, just wipe it off if it happens, also liquid feed every 2 weeks in the growing season, take indoors as the weather starts to cool or it will be killed from the cold, they also suffer from sunburn on the foliage so dapple shade is best, as autumn arrives, water less as I said before, don't have it in a hot dry room with too much dry central heating, if you do, you will need to keep misting the foliage, soon as the flowers stop, it has gone into winter rest and it will not need watered as much till Early spring when I start to water/feed mine readying for the new season, they don't like baked sunlight, but good light and foliage misting, don't let it sit in a saucer of water as the roots will rot, I have never had a white one, it must look really lovely, mine has bright red flowers, I have to grow it indoors all year round here in UK. good luck. Weenel.

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