Bouganvilleas

[Xipe Totec]

[badhair77]

1. Such lovely colors. Thanks for sharing.

[wendyb-NC]

2. Exquisite booms

Thanks for sharing them, they are so uplifting.

[TexasTowelie]

3. Mixed feelings.

Beautiful plants during the spring and summer, but I also remember all of the flat footballs during the fall and winter because of the thorns on the plant. We had a bouganvillea bush in our front yard that I had to prune when I was young.

[hlthe2b]

4. Umm, gorgeous! A favorite of mine.

[Diamond_Dog]

5. What stunning color!

Thank you Xipe Totec

[CrispyQ]

6. Those little white stars really stand out on that gorgeous pink!

Nice shot!

[dewsgirl]

7. We always had a giant bougainvillea bush in our

yard when I was growing up, I'm from Florida so often I was barefoot, going from the ocean to pool to the next body of water, we often didn't have shoes on. I had a whole branch of a Bougainvillea Bush stuck in my foot once. It hurt so bad. My parents loved them, and they are beautiful, as long as you're careful around them.

[cate94]

8. They are beautiful

[CaptainTruth]

9. They're beautiful, but they're a literal pain when you're painting a house...

...with them around it. The last time I had to paint a pergola over the entryway to a house, covered in bouganvilleas, I ended the day with a shredded bloody shirt & enough scratches all over me that it looked like I had an all-out fight with a couple dozen angry cats on meth.

I also have a customer whose dog was chasing something (squirrel maybe) & ran into a bouganvillea after it. A bouganvillea spike pierced its eye, leading to a huge vet bill & a poor dog that's now blind in that eye, with ongoing suffering & medical complications from it.