Closing Bell: Late Bloomers
Hey, the Christmas decorations may already be up around the borough, but as far as mother nature is concerned, it’s still summer. Hydrangeas, roses, and even this…this..this unnamed flower sported blooms on 8th Street in the Slope. Bonus points for those who can identify it.
Hey, the Christmas decorations may already be up around the borough, but as far as mother nature is concerned, it’s still summer. Hydrangeas, roses, and even this…this..this unnamed flower sported blooms on 8th Street in the Slope. Bonus points for those who can identify it.
custserv@whiteflowerfarm.com
Dear Gardening Friend:
Thank you for sending White Flower Farm a photograph of a plant for identification. The plant is a Mandevilla, a tropical plant usually grown in containers in cold areas.
We hope this information is helpful. Thank you for thinking of White Flower Farm.
http://hort.ufl.edu/gt/coast/mandevilla.htm
Closing the Pandora’s box.
This plant wouldn’t even have to be in bloom to ID it by it’s leaves. Brooklynschool has already posted a link to a photo of Mandevilla. Here’s a photo of Pandora Vine–check the leaves, no resemblance: http://www.gardenbuddies.com/forum/messages/4367/1167498.html
Mandevilla is available at any garden center in spring. Also at HD, Lowe’s and Costco.
It’s mandevilla.
And, have you seen the late-blooming anemones in front of Jennifer Connelly’s house on PPW? November 7 and they’re still gorgeous.
My mother the gardener says it’s Pandora’s Vine. I’m still not convinced.
Amazing to see how quickly these were recognized, but people still speculating. What’s more amazing is to find them thriving and blooming outdoors at this date, as they are tropical in origin, require very full sun and will not survive a winter outdoors. As BrooklynSchool and Will already identified, they are unmistakably Mandevilla (Alice Dupont).
OK Lisa, what is it??????
At first I though they were wild roses, but now that I look closer, maybe it is some kind of clematis.