Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Boug nonsense, 0 by htop

htop wrote:
Peg, the leaves on mine (which are in containers) always fall off with cool weather and diminishing sunlight. In the spring, I prune them way back and add fertilizer. I have used Nutri Star Bougainvillea fertilizer (17-7-10) for years. Bougainvillea need a high first number. I water mine when they first start to wilt. After each flush of blooms, I douse them with ferlizer.

Thought you might want to see a wall of bougainvillea that I observed in Maui. You can tell that I am taking the shot while pointing up. Hawaii is a bougainvillea paradise. Bougainvilleas are shaped into all sorts of hedges there.