Dipladenia Plant

Give it porous well-draining soil.

Dipladenia plant. Most recognizable for its bushy leaves and trumpet-shaped flowers this tropical plant thrives in pots in the ground and in hanging baskets. With brilliant trumpet shaped flowers well suited to growing in a pot or container as long as you can provide a climbing frame for it. It can fall victim to leaf spots fusarium rot botrytis blight and southern wilt.

The dipladenia plant also known as mandevilla dipladenia due to its belonging to the genus of Mandevilla creepers is native to Latin America and stands out for its beautiful flowering. A full sun loving plant gardeners in the warmest USDA Zones should plant in a position where the plants receive some light or dappled shade during the early afternoon. Dipladenia can be a perennial plant in warmer temperature zones like USAD 8 9 and 11.

However they do prefer a consistent level of moisture so do try to keep the soil damp but not wet. The plant vines naturally but not to the extent its mandevilla brethren do. Dipladenia is a tough-as-nails plant to grow.

The dipladenias hardy nature and handsome brightly coloured flowers have made it a favourite pot plant in Australian home gardens. Dipladenia is a bushier plant whose stems grow down and hang. Be careful not to overwater this plant and while it isnt particularly susceptible to pests keep an eye on it for unwanted bugs.

However its possible to grow it outdoors as an annual in places where the weather is too cold. Both plants need the same bright light and dipladenia care is the same as that for the mandevilla vine. But if you want to grow it in a colder zone it will act as an annual plant.

Dipladenia usually is an indoor plant in temperate climates. Dipladenia demands excellent drainage in containers or in the ground. The dipladenia is a tropical plant.