It is only natural to want to take care of the plants in your yard in the fall and winter, but we often forget about the plants in our backyards all year long. It is not uncommon to have a plant that is neglected by the gardener in the fall and winter time. If you have a property with bougainvillea, I highly recommend seeking out a professional to prune your plants to ensure your yard is in tip top shape for the season.
As it turns out, this one is no exception. It is well known that bougainvillea is a tough plant to prune, but in fact, it is one of the easiest and easiest to prune. It’s the fact that bougainvillea is not a plant to be touched lightly that makes it so frustrating to deal with.
Once the bougainvillea is cut you have to go to the ground and dig up the dead branches. The branches are then carefully planted in the ground. This is obviously a very labor-intensive process but it allows the plant to get a nice, healthy new life.
It is also a very quick and simple process, and not even as labor-intensive as digging up dead branches. If you are in the market for a new plant, this is how you should go about it. However, if you are like me and you want to enjoy the benefits of bougainvillea all winter, winter is the time to get it.
We do not recommend purchasing bougainvillea during winter. Because we do not know what the earth will do to our bougainvillea, it has been proven to be a very vigorous plant. The tree will grow as tall as you, but it will be much more vigorous with the warmer weather. The only way to ensure that bougainvillea survives these winter months is to buy it a couple of weeks before the first hard freezes.
If you’re not in the mood to get your hands dirty, get a little light and spritz your plants with a bit of water. That will help the plant to get some of the stress it is subjected to from high heat levels, and it will also help it to recover from the cold.
We spent a couple of days up at the Bora (I guess that’s Bora-ville?) and got to see about a dozen bougainvilleas. Some of them are the size of a person (but much more vigorous), but most are much larger than that. They’re also very prolific, which makes them particularly cute, and they’re very well-suited to being in the garden.
You may have noticed that, while bougainvilleas are quite abundant in the Pacific Northwest, they’re not widely available in the Midwest. That’s because bougainvilleas are not native to the Midwest, but instead came to the area from the Caribbean. That explains why they don’t have a very large number of cultivars here in the Midwest.
I love bougainvilleas, but I think most Americans would just rather have them in the garden in the fall, not in the winter. The plants are so prolific, and so easy to grow, that they make an excellent, easy-to-grow, yet versatile addition to any landscaping plan. That is, of course, assuming you have space for them.
The bougainvillea plant is a perennial that can be grown in any soil or even just on a piece of mulch. Plants can be grown from seed or cuttings. They can be grown in containers, raised beds, or even on a balcony or deck.