Bougainvillea (Bougainvillea glabra)

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artcons Fort Lauderdale, FL(Zone 10b) Sep 19, 2005

Bougainvillea
Bougainvillea glabra

Bougainvillea Bougainvillea glabra light violet and white multi colored bract

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DanceyTx Midway, TX(Zone 8b) Sep 19, 2005

Wow!! That is beautiful! I've never seen one with those colors. I have two that have the hot pink blooms. I would love to have like yours. Do you know of a source where I could order?


Lin

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artcons Fort Lauderdale, FL(Zone 10b) Sep 19, 2005

Hi, I think I got it at HD.

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DanceyTx Midway, TX(Zone 8b) Sep 20, 2005

I'll have to look at our Home Depot. I won't try and find one this year but next spring I will be on the lookout. It sure is pretty.


Lin

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artcons Fort Lauderdale, FL(Zone 10b) Sep 20, 2005

The HD's in our area, and there are dozens of 'em, get their bougainvillea from a grower/wholesaler in the next county that specializes in them. Every once in a while there is something different thrown in, probably to make a shipment complete. I go to the HD closest to me. It's five minutes away so I can go there often. This one happens to have the largest nursery in the county. In just a few minutes I am through the place and know exactly what's new.

I have a nice bunch of colors in my collection of bougainvillea. I live close enough to the Key's to visit there often. They have a great climate for growing bougainvillea. I get most of my unusual ones there. The one above is one of only two I have purchased. I usually get mine as cuttings from the Key's.

I attached a picture of four of my favorites.

Art

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DanceyTx Midway, TX(Zone 8b) Sep 20, 2005

Wow those are beautiful!! Someday I would like to have some with the variagated foliage too. I had a white one a long time ago but it froze. I didn't have it stored in a warm enough place.
We live way out in the country so nothing is 'close'. I have to drive to Bryan or Huntsville for HD or any other nurseries other than Wal Mart.


Lin

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artcons Fort Lauderdale, FL(Zone 10b) Sep 20, 2005

From what I have read, 65% of plants sold in the US come from Florida nurseries. We have nurseries thorought the state. In this county there are probably only 30 or so, but because the land is very valuable, the nurseries left are quickly vanishing to make room for more housing. To the south in Homestead (about 40 miles away) there are probably 2 to 3 hundred nurseries. In the central section of Florida near Gainsville where the UF has it's main campus, there are dozens of bio tech companies that develop plants. I once visited a nursery there that made cactus. Their main greenhouse was over a mile long.

Art

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