Thursday, 4 July 2019

A Show of Colour

Bougainvillias are in full flower right now and they are found in along every narrow lane, up every set of steps.  The colours are gorgeous







This is the bougainvillia outside my daughter's house.  A beautiful show of colour but I'm glad it's not ours.  Every autumn it has to be trimmed.  The thorns are long and deadly, the pruning laborious and painful.  


This bougainvillia is across the road from my daughter.  It is a new breed, no thorns.  It blooms all year but the flowers in winter are nowhere near as luscious

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  1. coffeeontheporchwithme4 July 2019 at 12:57

    Gorgeous! Maybe even more so, against the white backgrounds. -Jenn

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    1. local alien5 July 2019 at 09:34

      I like this colour but bougainvillias come in half a dozen shades. We have white as well

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  2. angela4 July 2019 at 18:45

    I like the ones without thorns
    I can’t grow them here. The frost kills them. If I could be bothered covering them I might make a go of it.
    But you know. Who wants to go out in the freezing cold rain lol

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    1. local alien5 July 2019 at 09:35

      I'm surprised. I supposed it's that sudden cold of the frost? We have snow now and again and they grow even bigger and fiercer!

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  3. Susan Heather4 July 2019 at 19:14

    They are beautiful. We used to have the one with thorns and I always dreaded cutting it back.

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    1. local alien5 July 2019 at 09:36

      Beautiful to look at but not to look after!

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  4. Cro Magnon4 July 2019 at 20:52

    I adore Bougainvillia. I remember very well the first one I saw. It was draped around a beautiful little cottage on the tiny island of Formentera. It was huge. I wish I could grow one here.

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    1. local alien5 July 2019 at 09:37

      I'm surprised they don't grow so well elsewhere. We can't kill the darn things! Our neighbour has one which, as he now lives in Athens, is never watered, pruned or looked after in any way and it blooms and thrives every summer

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  5. northsider 4 July 2019 at 22:39

    Thanks for the great pictures. The flowers remind me of the Algarve. Bougainvillea flowers and orange blossom scent are wonderful there.

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    1. local alien5 July 2019 at 09:39

      They are beautiful but need loads of space to grow. We have a flower called the night flower whose perfume is intoxicating. I learnt the english name for it and have now forgotten damn it

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  6. JayCee5 July 2019 at 01:13

    I loved our bougainvillia when we lived in the Canaries. Such a contrast with those vivid blooms against the white walls in the hot sun. Here it is all green and grey!

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  7. Yael5 July 2019 at 02:39

    Here, too, the bougainvillea blossoms and climbs over everything possible, I have two in the yard, one climbing the olive tree.

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    1. local alien5 July 2019 at 09:40

      I remeber those photos of your bougainvillia climbing up the olive tree. Wonderful. My sis in law had one which grew up a cyprus tree, full of colour.

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  8. wisps of words5 July 2019 at 07:39

    Lovely!

    But pruning that cross-street display, must be a harddddd jobbbbbb.

    💦 😊 💦

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    1. local alien5 July 2019 at 09:41

      It was supposed to be trained across the front of our old house, where my daughter now lives but I remeber the first time they pruned the thing, horrendous. I said 'no' keep it over your part of the road. I will admire it from afar

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