succulent care Another Pruning Adventure: Getting My Bougainvillea To Bloom / Joy Us Garden

Bougainvillea love in full force here! This is all about how I pruned & trimmed my newly inherited “Barbara Karst” to get those fabulous blooms.

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This bougainvillea grows in between my driveway & kitchen patio. Plainly put, it gets a lot of viewing time. It had been pruned & chopped by the previous owner into a rectangular “hedge-blob”. The blob was only showing a wee bit of color at the very ends which had been spared the wrath of the electric hedge pruners.

Bougainvilleas flower as a result of new growth so occasional pruning (not constant hacking) brings on the blooms.

You see a lot of color on large, unpruned bougainvilleas most of which is at the ends of the branches – that’s where the new growth is. By routinely hedge pruning a bougainvillea, you’ll get no or very little flowering. So many other plants make better and easier to maintain hedges. And why have a bougainvillea if you don’t get any color?

I did this pruning over 3 consecutive Saturdays because I only have 1 green waste barrel. This gave me the chance to step away from the bougainvillea and come back and look at it with fresh eyes. I like to handle a bigger pruning project this way – gives me perspective!

Bougainvilleas are vigorous growers once they get established and must be controlled from taking over your world. I’ll give mine a light pruning in December once this flowering is complete. I do the main pruning to set the shape in late January/early February. A few prunings to shape throughout the year will keep my Bougainvillea “Barbara Karst” in that airy yet colorful look I love.

See Pics & Get More Bougainvillea Pruning Tips Here: http://www.joyusgarden.com/getting-bo...

How I Pruned my Bougainvillea in Santa Barbara for Maximum Bloom: http://www.joyusgarden.com/prune-boug...

The Big Winter Pruning & Training of my Bougainvillea: http://www.joyusgarden.com/pruning-tr...

succulent care Another Pruning Adventure: Getting My Bougainvillea To Bloom / Joy Us Garden
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