My bougainvilleas seem to be real popular among visitors to this blog. I don't blame you, they're very beautiful and, if contained, can be pretty easy to maintain.
This week, it's a quick and simple chore for the bougainvilleas...just a quick haircut.
These tropical plants get shocked each winter even by our mild Southern California winters and end up with a lot of rangy, dead-looking wood. When the plants come back from their shock, it's a good time to trim up the worst of it for nothing more that asthetics (the dead-looking wood is actually alive but will still be rangy when it comes back).
Once I know that the plant is growing vigorously again and won't get shocked by cutting, I just snip back to the first growth I see on the stem.
Once I'm finished, I have a pretty and neat looking patio plant.
You can also see this plant in background of last week's Cocktail Hour video at my other blog, The World on Wheels travel blog.
Darryl
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