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glabra This is one of our very favorite flowering plants. We had these bright fuchsia, pink, purple, salmon, orange, and white flowering vine like bushes all over our garden though we loved best the hot pink ones growing by the pool. Benefits: Bougainvillea stems, flowers and leaves are believed to have more than a few medicinal benefits. From: South America or more specifically Brazil Photographed: As noted. Planting and Care: Bougainvillea is a warm climate bushy, thorny vine-like plant that thrives with minimal water. It is also tolerant of salty conditions making it idea for beach side and small island plantings. Plant bougainvillea in full sun in a space where it will be able to spread as it is a relatively fast grower reaching up to about 20 feet in two years when started from seed. In getting started, it prefers a moist, fertile soil with a neutral or slightly acidic pH. As the plant matures it becomes pretty well adapted to drought.It is best to prune just after the plants have flowered, but in reality you can do it when you wish. Hard pruning, in other words seriously cutting back the plants, is not particularly injurious to the health of the plants and will net you a vision as new branches grow and are covered with flowers. Warning: It is said that bougainvillea sap can cause serious skin rashes, but I have never found this to be true. Text and Photographs ©Krika.com and ©GreenGardeningCookingCuring.com 2014/2018 |
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 Bougainvillea
LandscapingBeside our long garage which was just eight or ten feet from the road, we planted several different colored bougainvillea plants -- white, deep pink, purple, peach and light pink to shield the view of the side of the garage. As well, it was a perfect place to plant something so exuberant and colorful. Once the bougainvillea were in place, we mulched them with sawdust and let the show begin. It was glorious! Photographed: The photograph on the right was taken looking from the road toward our garage at our former home in Montserrat in 2009. |
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Pink Bougainvillea |
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 Double
Flowering BougainvilleaI don't generally find them as beautiful as the more traditional variety because the crowding of the colorful "flower petals" takes away from their overall elegance. As well, when they are drying the plant takes on a pretty sad look. Photographed: At the Hotel San Buenaventura on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala in 2013. |
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Hot Pink BougainvilleaThis double hot pink bougainvillea was part of a multicolored hedge growing in Tobago. Notice that while it is a 'double' the flowers are less compressed than they are in the photograph above so it looks like problems with the double have been solved. Photographed: At the Crown Point Hotel in Crown Point Tobago in 2018. |
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Hot Pink BougainvilleaThis is another version of the double hot pink bougainvillea, though the one in the photograph above remains my favorite. was part of a multicolored hedge growing in Tobago. Photographed: At the Crown Point Hotel in Crown Point Tobago in 2018. |
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Light
Lavender Bougainvillea |
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 Peach BougainvilleaPhotographed: In Crown Point, Tobago, in 2018. |
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 Peach BougainvilleaThis single bougainvillea was part of a multicolored hedge growing in Tobago. Photographed: At the Crown Point Hotel in Crown Point Tobago in 2018. |
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Peach BougainvilleaPhotographed: At the Crown Point Hotel in Crown Point Tobago in 2018. |
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Peach and Pink Bougainvillea 2Photographed: At the Crown Point Hotel in Crown Point Tobago in May of 2018. |
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Pink
and White Variegated Bougainvillea This variegated bougainvillea grows beautifully in a pot as you can see in these photographs. Photographed: At the Hotel Atitlan at Lake Atitlan, in Guatemala. |
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Bougainvillea
in Pale Pink Photographed: In a private garden in Buccoo, Tobago, in 2018.  |
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Pink Variegated BougainvilleaPhotographed: At the Crown Point Hotel in Crown Point Tobago in 2018. |
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Bougainvillea Living on a Candelabra Cactus |
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Bougainvillea
as a Hedge
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