Garden: Bougainvillea!!

“μειονέκτημα” είναι η μειωμένη της αντοχή σε χαμηλές θερμοκρασίες και σε δυνατούς ανέμους γι΄ αυτό και βασικό στοιχείο για την σωστή της ανάπτυξη είναι να βρίσκεται φυτεμένη σε απάνεμα και ηλιόλουστα σημεία.

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, σε σχέση με άλλα που τα πράσινα φύλλα με δυσκολία …διακρίνονται ανάμεσα στα λουλούδια.

Ο λόγος είναι ακριβώς το …πολύ νερό. 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, φυσικά και δεν τις “κουτσουρεύετε” τόσο κατά το κλάδεμα, απλά “καθαρίζετε” το φυτό από εντελώς ξερά κλαδιά και “αραιώνετε” γενικά τα κλαδιά του όπου και αν χρειάζεται, 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.

Apart from the usual climbing type plants, there are also miniature bougainvilleas and even smaller bonsai type ones.