A little trick for growing bougainvillea: lush branches and leaves, and twice as many flowers

Bougainvillea, evergreen all year round, blooms in striking bright red, and also white, pink, purple, etc. Between every three bracts sits a small flower, so it is also called paperflower or triangle flower. Keep one pot on the balcony, and when it blooms it looks like clusters of clouds, incomparably beautiful. So how should bougainvillea be grown to make it vigorous and bloom abundantly?If you want your bougainvillea to bloom more, try doing this:

1. Potting soilis very important. It is best to use loose, fertile, well-drained sandy soil. If the soil is too sticky and tends to hold water, it will grow poorly and is also prone to root rot. The best soil mix is four parts leaf mold, two parts garden soil, plus decomposed chicken manure or other animal manure, some wood shavings, and some river sand.

2. To grow bougainvillea, you can try taking your owncuttings. In spring, cut a branch from somewhere else. Insert it into a flower pot as a cutting, with appropriate shading and moisture retention.

It will root as soon as it is stuck in the soil. After more than a month it will take root, and then it can grow into a small bougainvillea seedling.

3. Bougainvillea likes a warm environment with plenty of sunlight. In winter it needs to be moved indoors, and there should be no standing water or waterlogging. Then it can get through the winter smoothly.

4. Usually it must be placed in a sunny spot. It is fairly drought tolerant, so you can water it a little less. Only with sufficient sunlight can bougainvillea bloom more. If it is placed in a place with insufficient sunlight and rather dark conditions, it will not grow well.

5. Pruning is also very important. At the beginning of the year or in early spring, promptly cut off some of the dead branches and withered leaves, and then it will sprout more new branches and leaves. In spring it grows even more vigorously. If there are some leggy branches in between, they can also be cut off.

6. Control water appropriately to promote flowering.Skip watering for two or three days and let the soil dry out in the sun, then when you see the leaves are slightly wilted, water thoroughly once. This can promote it to sprout more flower buds.

If you grow bougainvillea according to these tips, it will certainly bloom in clusters and sheets, very beautiful and eye-catching.