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This climbing vine is a native to Brazil, known as bouganvillea or paper flower, it was named after Louis Antoine de Bougainville, an admiral in the French Navy who discovered the plant here in 1768. The colorful bracts around the flowers can be pink, orange, red, purple, white, yellow... The white-cream flowers are very small and can go almost unnoticed.
You can grow bouganvilleas along a wall and you may consider pots too, but they prefer warm weather. They are blooming now where I live. In fact, they bloom almost year round!
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22 comments:
Lindas e coloridas sempre.
Beautiful flowers and colors.
Great shot !!!
PRIMAVERAS, linda flor!
Olá Cris
Adorei! você sabia que elas também são conhecidas como Primavera?
De todas as cores, elas são exuberantes, e as ornamentações que se pode fazer com elas e espetacular: arbustos, árvores, caramanchão, cercas, só depende do tipo de poda.
Abraços, Denise
So beautiful! I love them, they always remind me of Italy or Greece, the south. I did not know that they have so many different colours!
How nice that they bloom for so long. They are very beautiful!
my aunt would love these flowers for sure! wonderfully shot!
my flower is posted here.
Cris
Linda postagem!
Today's Flowers fica engrandecido com essas amostras maravilhosas de flores de todos os tipos!
Nosso objetivo é exatamente este, mostrar flores, muitas flores, ao mundo, uma forma de falar de alegria e de felicidade!
Abraço
Santilli
These are so pretty! I had no idea there were so many different colors. Love them!
What a beautiful bouquet of flowers you have shown us!
So many wonderful colors.
Lovely!
Thats one riot of colours. Thank you for the flowers, Cris. You made my day :-)
What an amazing range of bougainvillea colours! Fantastic pics!
Lovely! Thanks for telling us more about these flowers. I enjoyed learning about them.
Paz
This is one flower I wish I could grow here - they are so beautiful! Whenever I have been to the Caribbean I have always envied and admired the houses with these vines growing all around.
Flores com gosto de primavera.
Linda escolha.
bjs.
JU Gioli
wow!são lindas e têm cores muito vivas e bonitas!
Gorgeous flowers. Bouganvillea grow in Phoenix, Arizona where my sister lives...but not here in Canada, so they seem very exotic to me.
Gorgeous flowers, Cris! Love all them! Well done!
Abraços, amiga!
Cris, I can't believe it, my friend. What a coincidence, too! We both from Brazil posting the same flowers. Your arrangement is very gorgeus! You can make a frame and decorate your home!
xoxo
Wonderful plant! My daughter in Australia has them also in her garden, and I always take photos of them; they are so decorative.
Hi Cris,
I had never seen bouganvillea until we moved to Texas. Love the variety of colors, they remind me a little of the azaleas I grew up seeing in Virginia.
Your photographs are lovely.
Thanks for sharing.
They're so beautiful! My previous neighbor grew them in her greenhouse/porch. They're so lovely and not terribly common in Colorado because of the cold. Nice shots! :D
look at all those glorious colors!!!! which one's your fav.?
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