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Flowering Plants
Bougainvillea
Bougainvillea glabra
Nothing gives more colour per rupee in a Pakistani garden. Bougainvillea will cover a boundary wall, a car porch or a pergola in solid colour, flower for eight months of the year, and do it on almost no water once established.
The trick almost everyone gets wrong is kindness. Bougainvillea flowers when it is slightly stressed. Rich soil, frequent watering and a nitrogen feed will give you a large, healthy, entirely green plant. Keep it lean, let it dry between waterings, and you get colour.
- Available in magenta, purple, orange, red and white
- Flowers eight months of the year in the Pakistani plains
- Grow it lean and dry — rich, wet soil produces leaves, not colour
Rs 650for the 12 inch pot
Inclusive of pot and mix. Delivery Rs 350, free over Rs 5,000.
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At a glance
- Mature size
- 3–8 m spread on support
- Growth rate
- Very fast
- Difficulty
- Easy to keep
- Around pets
- Keep away from cats, dogs and small children
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How to look after your Bougainvillea
Written for Pakistani conditions — long hot summers, dry winter air, and hard tap water. Follow this rather than advice written for a temperate climate.
- Light
- Full, unfiltered sun. Anything less and you get a green shrub instead of colour.
- Water
- Sparingly. Bougainvillea flowers hardest when slightly stressed — let it approach wilting, then water deeply. Constant moisture produces leaves and nothing else.
- Humidity
- Low is preferred. It thrives in dry heat.
- Soil
- Poor to average, sharply drained soil. Rich soil actively reduces flowering.
- Feeding
- Low nitrogen, high potassium, every 4 weeks in the growing season.
- Temperature
- 18–48°C. One of the toughest plants for a Pakistani summer. Protect from hard frost.
If something goes wrong
Vigorous green growth, no bracts
Why it happens: Too much water and too much nitrogen.
What to do: Cut watering back sharply and switch to a bloom feed. Colour usually follows within a month.
Leaf drop after repotting
Why it happens: Root disturbance — bougainvillea has famously brittle roots.
What to do: Keep it in one place, water lightly, and wait. It recovers.
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