Since I'm pretty much stuck at home or in the neighborhood, I have to keep hoping for something interesting to catch my eye during my short forays near neighbor homes so I have a topic to blog about.
So today it's bougainvilleas. Gosh! That's hard to spell.
I've always noticed that there's a vast array of bougainvillea colors in Hawaii. I decided to try and see how many different types I could find.
Here's the common fuschia color, but it's got more petals so it's some kind of hybrid.
I was looking up the spelling of bougainvillea online and saw this. I don't think I've seen this orange color in Hawaii. Then again, maybe if I walk a little farther a neighbor might have one.
But my all time favorite bougainvillea color?
My cellphone couldn't quite capture the color perfectly because I was taking it in twilight.
The pinkish white color reminded me so much of cherry blossoms.
Perhaps it's just making me long for the times when we traveled to Japan in spring to see the gorgeous cherry blossoms in bloom.
Someday...
You aren't short of colour there. Once our leaves drop, and we're just about there, it will be bleak until the snow falls.
ReplyDeleteCHE COLORI!
ReplyDeleteYou'll get to travel again soon. At least I keep telling myself that. At least we have had a new state to explore social distant. What a drag if we were still in MD and had been all of those places.
ReplyDeleteSuch lovely flowers!
beautiful flowers!!!
ReplyDeleteMy gosh, what beautiful flowers! I'm like Anvilcloud, thing are going to be pretty bleak here in Pittsburgh very soon.. can't imagine seeing all these flowers year-round. Hey I also noticed you were able to change your banner at the top of your blog. Wonder why some can & some can't?
ReplyDeleteIt might be because I'm using an old template? I'm still trying to figure out this new Blogger system.
DeleteThat could be it, thanks Kay! Well, it sure is beautiful :)
DeleteIt's snowing over here. Jealous of the flowers and colors you've got over there.
ReplyDeleteIn Illinois? Good grief! This is too early for snow. Still too hot here.
DeleteBeautiful plant, will avoid spelling it!
ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful plant and wonderful colour blooms.
ReplyDeleteLovely post :)
All the best Jan
I loved the bougainvilleas from when I was in Florida. Kind of like that orange one. They have so many blossoms but also so many thorns. I only recently found out there is a thornless variety.
ReplyDeleteMahalo for the flower tour! A nice delight while it snows outside in Kansas City.
ReplyDeleteI'll always remember when I arrived in Hawaii the first time: I could smell all the wonderful flowers surrounding the airport, even before I could see them!
Cheers, Linda in Kansas
I remember returning to Hawaii the first time after we moved away to Illinois. As I got off the airplane, I could smell the flowers and I was amazed because I'd never noticed it while living in Hawaii. Granted it was probably from the flower stands or something. I really do miss being able to smell things.
DeleteYes, someday.
ReplyDeleteYes, too, I like those flowers. Mother hated the fuchsia color, but any of them make me happy.
Beautiful bougainvillea! We get to see all those varieties here in India. In fact I have the fuchsia and your favourite light pink in my garden. They bloom all year round except for the monsoon season when it rains.
ReplyDeleteI would love to see India someday. It's one country we have yet to visit.
DeleteOh, I am sure you will love it. Culturally it is so much like Japan.
DeleteBeautiful colors. I didn't know there was an orange bougainvillea. I lived in Honolulu as kid years and years ago and of all my memories it is the flowers that I remember best. A much less urban place then with flowers sprouting up in every yard and alley.
ReplyDeleteI adore the beautiful colors of Hawaii--so vivid. I can't spell that flower either. My favorite is the orange, then the fuchsia. (another word I can't spell)
ReplyDeleteIt's fascinating to see all the types and colors. My neighbors have the more common deep red one. While beautiful, it's much like a weed coming over my wall, trying to wrap itself around all my trees, shrubs and plants to smother them so keep having to have them cut back. The spikes on them are really strong and sharp. I think I'll root a cutting, see if I can grow it in an indoor pot to climb up a post to enjoy the color. Would love to have some of the other colors in your photos.
ReplyDeleteThey are beautiful. I wonder if I've ever seen a bougainvillea growing and blooming.
ReplyDeleteSuch lovely flowers. Ours are pretty much done. Ontario has had snow. We had rain all day.
ReplyDeleteI love your post!
Gorgeous! I love these flowers and see you've made one of them your new header! Delightful colors, all. :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you, DJan. My header photo is actually of mom’s orchids though. They are in full bloom right now.
DeleteWell, that was a fun way to find some blogging material. So pretty, and something we have here only indoors.
ReplyDeleteBougainvillea are the easiest things to grow here. I find thick straight branches, cut them, put rootone and stick them in a pot of soil. They soon take and grow new branches. I make bonsais this way, or little trees in pots that need so little care.
ReplyDeleteI once saw a gorgeous light pinkish/whitish bougainvillea that was quite large with a tall skinny trunk and a profusion of flowering branches. It really looked like a cherry blossom tree. It was in a nursery in Waimanalo but I can't find it since because Waimanalo is filled with so many different nurseries and I get lost from one street to the next.
Kay, do you want one that I am abandoning soon? It is in a 14" square black plastic pot in a orange/red color. Not shaped like a tree because the trunk is low but it is quite pretty and in full bloom right now. Lmk, or I'll find another home for it.
Thank you so much, Aunty. Mom did have a bougainvillea plant in a pot, but she doesn’t want anymore of them. The roots actually grew out of the pot into the ground. They are very tenacious.
DeleteYou have a lot to choose from. So just go out on a walk and you find some pretty cool things.
ReplyDeleteWe had bougainvilleas in california seems like they were red...
ReplyDeleteMy husband grew up with a bougainvillea bush in their backyard and he often had to prune it. From that painful experience, he said he would never have a bougainvillea in our yard.
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