Flowering Bougainvillea Bonsai Tree Care

Flowering bougainvillea bonsai tree care is all about growing a bougainvillea indoor bonsai tree. Bonsai tree pictures.

This 30 year old bonsai Bougainvillea glabra is on display in the Japanese Garden at Heathcote Botanical Gardens in Ft. Pierce, Florida.

Bougainvillea plants make especially nice bonsai subjects. Pieces of this subtropical vine are easy to root and train into whatever shape is desired.

Best of all, many bougainvillea varieties produce colorful bracts throughout the growing season. The small scale of the flower bracts is an added bonus.

Bougainvillea Varieties

Because you want your miniature bonsai to be in bloom as often as possible, choose a variety carefully. The various bougainvillea colors have different bloom habits.

I know from personal experience that the purple bougainvillea flowers for months on end because I have one growing up the side of my house.

I also have a hot pink one in a pot that only displays its beautiful bracts in the fall.

Bougainvillea Pink Pixie is a different pink variety that is especially suitable for bonsai.

Why Wont My Bougainvillea Bloom?

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If you have a variety that is supposed to be very floriferous and it fails to produce the colored bracts, it is almost certainly because the plant is not receiving sufficient light.

These are sun loving vines. When grown as bonsai indoor trees, they need to be right in front of a south facing window or under a light which is left on for most of the day.

The other possible reason may be hunger. Feed the plant with a weak solution of a water soluble plant food. There is very little soil in a bonsai tree pot. This equates to precious little nutrition so feed the plant at least every two weeks to keep it growing.

Bougainvillea fertilizer should have a high middle number. This indicates a high bloom formula. Mix it up at 1/4 the normal strength so as not to risk burning the small root system of the bonsai.

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Bonsai Bougainvillea Care

This is the trunk of the tree in the photo at the top of the page.

Bougainvillea is sort of a cold hardy tropical vine. It will take some frost but will not withstand a deep freeze. It does not need any cold to induce bloom.

It's a wonderful ornamental for a sunny patio. Just make sure you bring it in before the first frost.

Even though it can tolerate frost, it doesn't like it. Cold weather causes it to drop both leaves and flowers.

If you forget and leave you bougainvillea bonsai out too late into the fall and it denudes itself, don't worry.

Just bring the little stripper in.

Keep it warm, watered and fed and you'll see new leaves popping out of its diminutive stems sooner than later.

Buy Bougainvillea Bonsai Plants

Artificial Flowering Bougainvillea Bonsai Tree The flowers and branches of this artificial Bougainvillea are created from lava clay making them very flexible and, therefore, can be adjusted to your personal preferences or left as shown. The hand-painted flowers are so life-like that people will want to touch them to see if they are real. This tree will retain its beauty for many years to come and can be cleaned with a slightly dampened cloth.

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