Mandevilla x amoena 'Alice du Pont (Mandevilla, pink dipladenia)

A fast-growing evergreen creeper with large, spectacular, trumpet-like pink flowers. This semihardy plant, which does not like growing against a hot wall, is ideal for training on light trellises.It needs a warm aspect and likes deep, rich and well-drained soil. Flowering from a small plant,Mandevilla produces masses of flowers once established, starting in November and continuing throughout the summer until the winter cold really bites.