The versatile and very decorative Dipladenia is not only ideal for planting in balcony boxes or patio pots, it is also an excellent hanging plant. Here it doesn't grow as a climbing plant but hanging.
What does the care of a Dipladenia in a hanging basket look like?
A Dipladenia in a hanging basket needs a bright, warm location without direct midday sun. It is easy to care for and undemanding; it should be watered sparingly once a week and fertilized about monthly. Note: The plant is poisonous and not frost hardy.
No matter in which form you cultivate the unfortunately poisonous Dipladenia, also called Mandevilla, give it a warm and bright place that is as well protected as possible from wind and rain. However, she doesn't like direct sunlight at midday. The Mandevilla is not frost hardy and is difficult to overwinter. Temperatures below around 8 °C can definitely harm it.
The Dipladenia can be propagated quite easily using offshoots. If you cut a few shoots in autumn, you will have young plants in spring and can easily cope with the possible loss of the old plant. However, overwintering can be successful in a bright and well-tempered winter quarters.
How to care for your Dipladenia in the hanging basket
The Dipladenia is considered relatively undemanding and easy to care for. It can also survive a few days without being watered. So a weekend trip is no problem for its owner. Water your Dipladenia about once a week, and then not too much but rather sparingly. Give the plant a little fertilizer about once a month. You can simply mix this into the irrigation water as a liquid fertilizer.
The most important things in brief:
- good for hanging baskets
- Choose a bright, warm location, without direct midday sun
- poisonous
- relatively undemanding and easy to care for
- not frost hardy
- not easy to overwinter
- can easily survive a few days without water
Tip
You can plant the Dipladenia in a hanging basket without any worries. Their funnel-shaped flowers come into their own there.
