One of the most impressive climbing plants and one of the plants completely identified with the Greek summer, although bougainvillea is equally popular in all Mediterranean countries and in general where a temperate and warm climate prevails, since her only one …..
“disadvantage” is its reduced resistance to low temperatures and strong winds, therefore a key element for its proper growth is to be planted in sheltered and sunny places.
So if you find the right one, bright most days days and sheltered from the wind, point to place it either directly in the soil or in large planting containers and if you offer it basic care, it is sure to reward you with a profuse bloom usually twice a year - once in late spring/early summer and again in early autumn.
It belongs to the plants that are very difficult to be affected by diseases, it has no special lubrication needs, apart from an ordinary general fertilizer from the end of spring until the autumn and especially for the plants that are not in the soil but in planting containers and its requirements even in water are not great, watering each 2-3 days and only during the summer is enough, generally, its soil should dry completely between waterings.
The misconception of some that bougainvillea needs a lot of water, it is the reason for the not rare phenomenon of some plants while they are full of lush green foliage, show very little or even non-existent flowering, compared to others that the green leaves with difficulty …stand out among the flowers.
The reason is exactly that …a lot of water. Especially in bougainvilleas planted in pots where the increased summer temperatures and the wind dry out the soil on the surface, but it may still be wet inside, make sure the soil in the pot is really dry before watering again and of course take care of good water drainage by always placing - and for any plant- a layer of gravel in the bottom of the pot before the soil.
Bougainvillea is pruned in March, as soon as the big colds have passed and the length of the branches on small plants is good to be cut by approx 1/4.
Bougainvillea with great height, since it is a climber that can overcome the 10 meters, of course not them “you are limping” both when pruning, simply “clean up” the plant from completely dry branches and “dilute” generally its branches wherever needed, since in fact its pruning is not even necessary.
Plants that you will overprune some year, it is possible that they will not bloom at all in the next flowering season.
With the pruning but also the means of support you choose for the bougainvillea, you can give it in addition to the simple vertical development form, any other shape you want.
There she is “delineate” in the form of an arch around the perimeter of a door, there she is …climb stairs, pergolas etc. or after it has a fairly thick trunk and by constantly cutting its branches below a certain height, give it the shape of a normal tree.
Apart from the usual climbing type plants, there are also miniature bougainvilleas and even smaller bonsai type ones.
They are grown in small planting containers and pruned constantly, like all such plants, to keep their shape. These particular bougainvilleas are among the most impressive trees/plants in …miniature, since, despite their small size, their flowering is as rich as in a normal-sized plant, something that makes their blooming image really …incredible.
Something that most people also don't know is how these impressive fuchsias, Red, White, purple, orange or pink “flowers” of the bougainvillea are not actually flowers but bracts of decorative leaves that enclose and cover the very small white-yellow flowers inside them.
It is propagated by cuttings, but it is not one of the easiest, anyway if you want to try it …lucky you, you will do it during the summer with twigs that, after removing all their leaves, you will plant them in a small pot with fluffy soil and you will water only when the soil dries completely. The first green leaves are the …indication that you have already acquired a new plant.
The …obsessed with class and the “cleanliness” up to a point …hysteria that bother you probably also “garbage” of flowers, just keep in mind that all this o “volume” of flowers with the wind and in seasons it makes sense to fall filling everything around, but if this is the reason not to choose it for your garden or balcony, probably should generally …rethink your relationship with gardening, plants and the real pleasure and beauty that they are able to offer us.
For the rest, that did not …you get stuck on such trifles
details in front of the incredible image of a bougainvillea in full bloom,
a proposal that will grow her …οπτική απόλαυση που θα σας χαρίσει.
Plant in the same place two or more with different colors and as they grow “knit” the branches together. When they bloom, the image of mixed colors, she is truly fantastic!!
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