There are many white cultivars, Jamaica White and Summer Show, and a double white. Given its head, bougainvillea will grow as high as the tops of oak trees. It likes full sun to light shade.

Bougainvillea is a beautiful, but thorny, flowering plant that is known for its bright red, rose, or pink bracts (the flowers are either white or very pale yellow).

With colors ranging from purple to almost neon magenta (Raspberry Ice), from a slightly more demure red to soft apricot and even softer white, bougainvillea is a tropical plant that can brighten ...

Nyctaginaceae: evergreen shrubby vines; Zones 12-17, 19, 21-24; full sun; moderate water. Planting: Root ball is highly sensitive to disturbance. Sunset Western Garden Book recommends this method ...

Q: I have never seen this happen to a bougainvillea before. One bract divided down the middle, half-red/half-white on my white bougainvillea. I brought the plant in just before Halloween.

Bougainvillea in Burlingame and environs will bloom through a warm October, then go dormant, as it does in other parts of the Bay Area. Leafing out occurs during spring, and when the weather warms ...

Paul De Rose’s red bonsai bougainvillea started out as a 30-foot-tall bougainvillea that he dug up from a friend’s garden 12 years ago. Then, after years of pruning and trimming, it ...

*Scientific name:Bougainvillea species*Growth habit:A woody, evergreen vine often taking the shape of a rambling shrub and growing to over 20 feet tall and wide. The leaves are heartlike in shape ...

An older bougainvillea in the ground for five to seven years will bloom on and off all summer and more as the years go by. In a pot, bougainvilleas will also bloom more as they age, but don't be ...

A beautiful tropical plant, bougainvillea boasts clusters of papery flowers ranging from hot pink to magenta, fiery orange to ...