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Maureen Gilmer
(Bougainvillea, Paperflower, Tahitian Maid Bougainvillea)
The dense, double blooms of ‘Tahitian Maid’ ignite frost-free gardens with their vibrant magenta-red color. This vigorously climbing evergreen tropical is not a true vine but a liana, a group of shrubs that send their long branches into jungle trees of South America. Three major species are the parents of our garden hybrids, which have been crossed into a dazzling array of sizes and colors. Their long branches are lined with dark green leaves and end in masses of bloom.
The color is from bracts,...
Maureen Gilmer
(Bougainvillea, Paperflower, Temple Fire Bougainvillea)
A fabulous dwarf bougainvillea, ‘Temple Fire’ shows flaming color in both its flower and its bronze leaf accents. This is a cultivar derived from Bougainvillea glabra, which was crossed with hybrids to create a rainbow of colors and dwarf forms for smaller gardens. It retains the intense, long-lasting color of its ancestors in spite of its short stature plants.
The brick red color blooms are bracts, leaves that have evolved to lure pollinators. The bracts are very long lasting and fade...
Maureen Gilmer
(Bougainvillea, Torch Glow Bougainvillea)
This bougainvillea, ‘Torch Glow,’ stands on its own amidst the many garden bougainvilleas due to its unique, upright, shrubby form. Bougainvilleas are technically lianas, tropical shrubs with reaching stems that grow into the treetops of their jungles of origin. Yet this selection was discovered in California among a group of seedlings imported from the Philippines. Ordinary plants have fast-growing stems with widely spaced leaves. The leaves of ‘Torch Glow’ are tightly packed together on their...
