Bougainvillea

Bougainvillea Bambino Zuki is a unique and compact bougainvillea variety that captivates with its claret-red flowers, highlighted beautifully against variegated foliage. New leaves emerge with hints of pink and green, maturing to a striking white and green contrast, making this plant a year-round spectacle. Released in spring 1997, Bambino Zuki is a tidy grower that blooms for several months, even in shaded conditions, making it ideal for adding vibrant charm to courtyards, patios, and smaller garden spaces. 

Soil: Prefers well-draining, fertile soil with organic matter such as compost to enhance growth and structure. Mulching around the base helps retain moisture and reduces weeds.
Conditions: Thrives in full sun to partial shade, requiring less direct sunlight than most bougainvillea varieties for good flowering. Sensitive to frost, so protect in colder climates.
Size: Height 1m x width 1m

Bougainvillea Tango is a vibrant, semi-deciduous climbing vine prized for its long-lasting colour and tropical charm. It produces masses of delicate pale orange bracts that gradually fade to soft pink, creating a warm, multi-toned display that brightens the garden for much of the year. Flowering from October through to May, this vigorous climber delivers an extended season of colour, making it an excellent choice for adding visual impact to outdoor spaces. Its climbing habit allows it to easily cover pergolas, trellises, fences, and walls, where it can also be used as a decorative screen. Pruning after the main flowering flush helps encourage fresh new growth and promotes continued flowering throughout the season.

Soil: Well-drained soil.
Conditions: Full sun. Drought, heat and coastal tolerant. Frost tender.
Size: Height 6m x width 5m

Bougainvillea Bambino Sunrise is a stunning compact shrub that displays soft pink and peachy bracts, bringing a gentle yet vibrant touch to any garden space. This small, bushy plant is perfect for container gardening, topiary, small hedges, and planter boxes, making it versatile enough for courtyards and patios. With regular light pruning and a potash-rich fertilizer from spring through autumn, Sunrise will reward you with repeated flushes of beautiful blooms. Ideal for smaller spaces, this delightful plant adds a warm, sunny ambiance wherever it grows.

Soil: Thrives in well-draining, fertile soil. Enrich the soil with compost or organic matter to boost growth and flowering potential.
Conditions: Prefers a warm, sunny position to thrive. Tolerant to some drought once established, though regular watering during dry spells is beneficial. Sensitive to frost, so shelter in cooler climates.
Size: 1–1.5m H x 1–1.5m W

Bougainvillea Bambino™ Panda is a compact, bushy shrub that brings contrast to the landscape with green leaves edged with a solid white margin, and bright white bracts that bloom for most of the year. Perfect for those seeking to add a touch of icy bright colour to balconies, patios, or even garden beds. As its name suggests, Panda is a smaller bred plant that is perfect for your favourite pot, courtyard, topiary or hedging. You can also create a showy display by planting it in a hanging pot.

Soil: Well-drained soil.
Conditions: Full sun. Drought, heat and coastal tolerant. Frost tender.
Size: Height 1m x width 1m

Bougainvillea glabra Hawaiian Gold is a spectacular climbing plant featuring striking golden-yellow bracts that age to a pale pink-gold. This eye-catching fast-growing variety is perfect for covering fences, walls, pergolas, and trellises, adding a bright tropical touch to outdoor spaces. Its lush green foliage provides a beautiful contrast against the deep golden yellow bracts - enhancing its vibrant floral display.
It produces an abundance of flowers from spring through autumn, making it an excellent choice for year-round visual appeal.

Soil: Well-drained soil.
Conditions: Sunny position. Drought and coastal tolerant. Frost tender.
Size: Height 3-5m x width 2-3m

Bougainvillea Babybino Pedro is a spectacular compact shrub with warm, brick-red tracts that flower periodically through the year, with a main flowering flush in spring and summer. As its name suggests, it is a smaller bred plant that is perfect for a favourite pot, understory planting, courtyard, topiary or hedging. Some light pruning after flowering is recommended.

Soil: Well-drained soil.
Conditions: Full sun. Drought, heat and coastal tolerant. Frost tender.
Size: Height 1.2m x width 1m

The Bougainvillea White Cascade produces masses of white bracts which bring outstanding colour and beauty to the garden. This compact-sized variety offers wave-edged, pretty foliage on long-reaching branches. The sun-loving bougainvillea flowers year-round in more temperate climates and in cooler regions, unleashes the floral display in the warmer months. White Cascade is a fast-growing and resilient plant, making it an excellent choice for creating screens, hedges or growing over fences and garden structures.

Soil: Will do best in neutral to slightly acidic soils.

Conditions: Full sun position. Coastal and drought hardy. Frost sensitive.

Size: Height 5m x width 5m

The Bougainvillea Raspberry Ice is an evergreen, vigorous climber that produces green and yellow variegated foliage and raspberry-coloured bracts during summer. The eye-catching climber is versatile offering many options - dense ground cover when left to ramble over embankments, explode in colour in mass plantings, or as a stunning spectacle when trained to grow up fences or trellis.

Soil: Will do best in neutral to slightly acidic soils.
Conditions: Full sun position. Coastal and drought hardy. Frost sensitive.
Size: Height 3m x width 2m