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Elevate color in your landscape this summer by growing a Mandevilla vine up a trellis, pergola, arbor, or even over a mailbox.

While other plants melt in Florida's hot summers, Mandevilla (Mandevilla spp.) is a tropical vine that almost seems to smile at the heat, putting out colorful trumpet-shaped blooms along its woody, twining stems.

One of the most recognized varieties is 'Alice Dupont', which produces medium pink flowers up to four inches wide and two inches long. Other varieties are available that produce flowers in red or various shades of pink. The white-blooming Mandevilla boliviensis is a favorite of many gardeners. A few yellow flowering vines are often called yellow mandevilla, though they're technically different plants (Urichtes lutea or Pentilinon luteum).

The stems of larger varieties like 'Red Velvet' can reach up to twenty feet long in a single season and are great for growing up trellises and arbors. The more compact cultivars like Sun Parasol® 'Burgundy' are well suited for growing over a mailbox. They're also stunning in hanging baskets or containers as their stems creep over the edges.

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Source: UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions

Does best n FULL SUN Deer resistant Great beach plant - takes salt spray  Heat and drought tolerant Loves Florida's humidity Extremely low maintenance Give them a trellis to grow on, and they can grow up to 10 ft in one year. It may freeze back but can come back from its roots Its cousin Dipladenia has similar flowers in a shrub form Great in containers- get more flowers if the root growth is constrained