Chookie wrote in message ...
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(JustEd) wrote:

I am thinking of planting a Mandevilla near the base of a medium sized
ever-green Alder in the hope it will cover the tree.

Is your aim to kill the tree, add colour in the vicinity, or something else?

Certainly not to kill the tree - hadn't thought of that - just to
create a feature of the Mandevilla... I had thought that the
Mandevilla may not grow next to the Alder...