Rufus Rolling In Grass. 3 Aug 24.

 Rufus loves rolling in the grass while I'm working.  Happy dog!

Mandevilla Vines In Bloom Again. 2 Aug 24.

 Here's the red Mandevilla vine.  I overwintered it in the garage, then prune heavily an repotted in larger container.  That was 20 April.

The pink one is a bit behind but has lots of buds.  I can post when it's more dramatic.

I occasionally gave them a diluted balanced fertilizer to get the leaves to fill out, then a bloom booster.  No high nitrogen - I don't want long straggly vines.

These don't seem to mind the heat at all.

Four O'Clocks (Mirabilis jalapa) Mostly Seed Grown. 3 Aug 24.

 Here are the 4:00's in bloom at about 9am.  They don't follow the "bloom at four o'clock" rule.  

These are my reliable favorites.  The yellow ones and magenta ones were my own seed saving.   I bought the seeds for the variegated ones.  Two were overwintered tubers from container plants.  The rest were seed - grown this Spring.  They actually have some shade, overhead and on their west side.

Deer and rabbits don't touch them.  They do need slug bait during wet Spring.  Supposedly, Japanese beetles eat the leaves which have an insecticidal toxin, but I don't know about that.

I water them about every few days.  They have an arborist chip mulch.  

Four O'clock roots usually overwinter fine, in place, here with no special treatment,

Seed-Grown Dwarf Dahlias. 3 Aug 24.

 These dahlias came out very nice.

They handle the hot weather just fine.  Deer and rabbits don't touch them.  The flowers are lovely.

I think I'll dig a couple in the fall, to overwinter the tubers for containers.

The single flowered ones are also beginning to come into bloom.  Bees like them.  There are also white and yellow ones, from the same packet.

I do water them every few days, and they have a arborist chip mulch.

Mini-Rose Update. 3 Aug 24.

 This is the pink rose that I bought on sale at the grocery store.  I tentatively identified it as ¿Light Pink Felicitas Kordana?     I repotted it 13 June.  It's done fine.  It started blooming during the past couple of days.  

This rose hasn't had any problems with weather in the 90s.  I keep it on the East side of the house, close to the house.

Now I've acclimated and given TLC to four different grocery gift mini roses.  Each has done great, and each is very different from the others.   My conclusion is, it's doable and they make nice plants, and re bloom nicely.  I think the main strategy is to repot them as soon as possible, in new, good quality potting soil.  Then TLC and no extreme conditions while they recover.  I used a diluted, balanced, general purpose houseplant fertilizer.