Bougainvillea Mrs Butt

Bougainvillea Mrs Butt

Flamboyant, pink/red bracts are on show from late summer to late Autumn 4-6m.

Bougainvillea buttiana Mrs Butt is an extremely hardy plant that can handle everything our local environment throws at it. They’re ideal for our climate here in WA with our hot, dry summers. Bougainvillea Mrs Butt will like a hot spot in the garden, to cover a wall or use as security to cover a fence. To keep thorns under control, lightly prune as it grows, and you won’t get those arching long thorns.  You can also keep it under control by growing in pots, where they look lovely cascading down, or climbing up mediterranean style. They also make a spectacular standard topiary.

Bougainvillea like a lot of sunlight to bloom and don’t like to be kept in soil that is too wet. Once roots are established, a couple of years after planting, they seem to thrive on neglect. Leave them alone, don’t water and you’ll be rewarded with amazing, intense summer and autumn colour.