April 22, 2002
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Crazy About Bougainvillea
Photo and Enhancement by Chris Duffy . . . . . . . . . . . . click on picture (then F11) to see a larger image.
You know how when someone brings a new word to your attention and you think to yourself, “I’ve never ever even heard of this word”. . . . and then within the next couple weeks or so you hear it two or three more times. That’s the way it was with me and bougainvillea. It’s just been within the last year and a half that I learned what bougainvillea looked like. Sure, I’d heard of them, but I hadn’t a clue what they looked like. Well, now that I know what they look like, it seems they are everywhere in the South . . . and they come in lots of colors. . . and I love them. These were in Puerto Rico.
Comments (5)
It ‘ s better yet when we can call a flower by its name . Beautiful Bougainvillea .
And I have liked the previous holiday pictures .
Michel
I think Bougainvillea has eaten parts of the south
What a gorgeous photo!! I love the purple ones myself!
Too far north for bougies. Maybe I’ll grow some when I move south!
They are beautiful, aren’t they. I tried them one year, I thought that they were a perennial (?sp), but they only lasted that one year.