Bougainvillea Peruvian

Bougainvillea peryviana

Homeland - Peru.

Curly bush with shoots covered with strong spikes. Leaves from broadly oval to semicircular, almost naked, green.

Flowers are collected on 1-3, bracts are small( 2-3 cm in length), bright pink

Courtship. Bougainvillea is demanding of lighting conditions. With a lack of light, the bloom is weaker, the color of the bracts is pale. Shade Bougainville should only be at noon hours. Especially important is intensive lighting in winter. Watering in the summer is plentiful, limited in winter. In warm, dry rooms, spraying is necessary. The temperature in the summer is 24-25 ° С, in winter - not lower than 10 ° С.In February, it is raised to 20 ° C.Well feels bougainvillea in the open in summer.

As a substrate, use a mixture of sod, humus, foliar, compost soil with the addition of bone meal and horny shavings, or a mixture of clayey-sod, leaf earth and sand with the addition of bone meal and crushed charcoal. Feed the plants from spring to the end of the summer weekly with organic fertilizers. In September-October, the period of relative calm in bougainvillea begins: growth slows down, it is possible to drop leaves. In spring the plant is cut short, which stimulates branching, the formation of a large number of flowers, the plant acquires a compact appearance. For planting choose a sufficiently large capacity, as the bougainvillea is growing rapidly.

The main pest is aphids.

Propagate bougainvillea with apical and cauline semi-mature cuttings or ripened apex. They can be cut all year round, but best in January - March. On the cuttings leave 2-4 buds, and planted in a mixture of leaf land and sand, pretreated with stimulants. With lower heating and a temperature of at least 25 ° C, the roots form within 3-5 weeks.

Bougainvillea is used for landscaping large spacious rooms, hotel halls, foyer of cinemas. With constant pruning, it is quite successfully grown in rooms. Perfectly look green walls and dividing trellises from bougainvillea.