Bougainvillea Plant Care

Bougainvillea is one of the most colorful and popular plants for spring and summer color in the landscape. In fact, Bougainvilleas could possibly be the most popular and one of the most widely grown tropical blooming vines.

This native to the coast of Brazil often has spiny, cascading stems which deliver colorful bracts of red, orange, purple and other shades shielding the small white, inconspicuous flowers.

Where and how to you use Bougainvillea? Here’s a few ideas

• Hanging baskets
• 1 to 3 gallon pots either sheared as bush, staked, or trellised.
• Trained as a tree - standard
• Summer annual up North.
• In the South grown as groundcover, hedge, trellis, standard, or cascading planter plant

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