Tips for Making Bougenville as Ornamental Vines

Decorative plants bougenville aka paper flower has beautiful colors. Although often behaving more like a shrub, these bougenvillees can also become vines.

Quoted The SpruceThe bougenville ornamental plant is classified as a botanically as a woody vine. In fact, the Bougainvillea is easily trained to grow as a shrub.

Mothers of course often see this Bougenville growing vines on walls or fences. The color is also bright. Well, if you want Bougenville to grow vines, the plants often need help in climbing.

So, provide a trellis or train them through the espalier so that they grow evenly with their supports.

If it is not provided with support or support, it may just lie on the ground. In fact, in some cases Bougenville serves as ground cover.

Bougenville is suitable to grow in our tropical climate. Usually the leaves are green all year round in warm climates, but the leaves will sometimes drop if there is not enough watering.

Although classified as a drought tolerant plant, bougenville vines will perform better with sufficient watering, especially during bloom.

When Mother wants the plant to propagate bougenville these often bloom in abundance, try putting them in full sun. However, Bougenville still tolerates light shade.

Don’t forget to prune the bougenville vines when they’re done blooming. But, don’t damage the plant by pruning it. Annual pruning will make it more compact.

Anyway, Mother may be wondering where the flowers of the Bougenville ornamental plant are? In Bougenville, the colored parts seen as flowers are actually leaf structures called “bracts”. The flowers, technically speaking, are much smaller and less conspicuous, they can be pale white to yellow in color.

What about the type of soil in Bougenville ornamental plants? Reported Homes to Love, most of the soil is moderately acidic. This is suitable for growing bougenville.

However, if the land in your mother’s house is alkaline, you can trick it. The trick is to plant it in a pot or condition the soil with iron chelates.

Well, if you want to move the Bougenville ornamental plants, make sure the planting media contains compost. Don’t use manure.

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