Alamandas anyone ?

[Walter John]

Here's some close up pics of my yellow alamanda after the rain.

[Trópico]

Nice Wal!

I do use Alamandas, they are easy to root from cuttings and profusely flower, sometime in late summer. I did notice though, that the ones I have outside of the pool enclosure started yellowing the leaves probably due to last week's cold weather.

[SunnyFl]

Ahhhhhhhh - beautiful Wal, and gorgeous pix of them.   Are they trained on a trellis, or did you bush-form them?    These are among my favorite flowers - I have a large sprawling one that I've had since '87.  

Frank, yours are the dwarf variety, correct?  Those are beauties - I've had some in my garden but had too much trouble with the leaves yellowing and the plant withering (fungus problem).  The larger vining type didn't have the problem.

[Trópico]

Yes those are the dwarf variety. I have two types: The dwarf and another, mid sized, more robust but less profuse, with longer flowers. I do not have the climbing variety.

The dwarf usually dies to the ground here in C FL but it comes back to hedge size before summer.

The sunnier the conditions where it grows, the more profusely it flowers.

[Eric in Orlando]

Here are some we have growing;

Allamanda cathartica

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A. cathartica 'Williamsii'-Brown Bud Allamanda (the one usually grown)

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A. cathartica 'Stansill's Double' (sometimes called 'Flore Plena')

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Allamanda 'Cherries Jubilee'

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Allamanda 'Cream'

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