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My Baumontia grandiflora (Foremerly a Mandavilla ! LOL) is going wild!
« on: May 07, 2008, 02:50:20 PM »
And it only took 10 to 15 years!  I gave up on getting blooms long ago.
This is the result of benign neglect
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Re: Mandavilla is going wild.
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2008, 03:20:32 PM »
Sure worth the wait!  I like the ruffled edge of the bloom.  Nice white.
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Re: Mandavilla is going wild.
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2008, 05:55:55 PM »
That is very pretty!  My mother overwintered one that came out of a lowes dumpster last year that was broken and its blooming already inside.. its a deep red.  I just love them!

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Re: Mandavilla is going wild.
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2008, 06:59:19 PM »
Worth the wait! Nice!
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Re: Mandavilla is going wild.
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2008, 07:28:56 PM »
What a beautiful plant...did you give it a talkin' to...I did that with my aurora water lily a few years ago...after about 7 years of NO blooms--I repotted it and told it if it didn't bloom this year it was a gonner....Its been blooming lovely blooms for 2 years straight  lol
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Re: Mandavilla is going wild.
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2008, 10:32:43 PM »
Funny!  Nope not a word.
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Re: Mandavilla is going wild.
« Reply #6 on: May 08, 2008, 04:27:09 AM »
Hmm hmm that's nice. You might find it's not a Mandaville at all, but a Beumontia grandiflora. I planted one as well and it took forever to flower. One day it suddenly took off up a tree with no warning. From the very top of a sizeable guava tree it burst into a lovely shower of great big white angelic bells. Then a porcupine chewed it's thick corky base and that was that. After all those years.
Enjoy, has it got a smell, I never climbed up to smell?
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Re: Mandavilla is going wild.
« Reply #7 on: May 08, 2008, 09:43:44 AM »
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Re: Mandavilla is going wild.
« Reply #8 on: May 08, 2008, 12:54:40 PM »
He is right absolutely!!  I will give it a sniff.
I bought it 10 or 15 years ago, who remembers?
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Re: Mandavilla is going wild.
« Reply #9 on: May 09, 2008, 01:30:26 AM »
a porcupine?  you have porcupines in Hong Kong?  I would have never guessed that.
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Re: Mandavilla is going wild.
« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2008, 12:46:04 AM »
Yes  :) we have lovely porcupines, big too like the African one. Always see them in the headlights when coming home at night, especially in winter. They puff and waddle into the trees.
We have barking deer, wild boar, palm civets, mongeese, squirrels, leopard cats etc. People always think HK is just a big city but we have lots of wild places and beautiful beaches mountains wetlands etc too.
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Re: My Baumontia grandiflora (Foremerly a Mamdavilla ! LOL) is going wild!
« Reply #11 on: May 11, 2008, 05:13:19 PM »
Jackie Chan did a TV show where he gave a tour of Hong Kong and I thought it was very interesting. Loads of natural places and beautiful gardens.
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