Double Red Bougainvillea Live Plant Set – 4-6″ Tall Tropical Climbing Vine – 2-Pack

Overview

Transform your outdoor space into a tropical oasis with our stunning set of two double red bougainvillea live plant starters. Each healthy starter plant measures approximately 4-6 inches tall, ready to bring vibrant color and lush foliage to your garden. The ‘Double Red’ Bougainvillea is celebrated for its rich, deep red double bracts that create a spectacular visual display, making it a standout addition to any landscape. Unlike single-bracted varieties, the ‘Double Red’ offers an even more dramatic and full appearance. This versatile tropical vine, botanically known as Bougainvillea glabra (cultivar ‘Double Red’), can be trained to climb trellises, fences, or walls, cascade beautifully from hanging baskets, or thrive in containers on your patio. Its vigorous growth and long-lasting blooms ensure a continuous show of bold color throughout the growing season, attracting butterflies and other beneficial pollinators to your garden. These red bougainvillea starter plants provide an excellent foundation for establishing a thriving, eye-catching feature that will enhance your home’s curb appeal, making bougainvillea care a rewarding experience.

Key Benefits

The double red bougainvillea live plant offers a multitude of benefits for both novice and experienced gardeners seeking to add dramatic flair to their outdoor spaces. Its exceptional characteristics make it a popular choice for vibrant, low-maintenance landscaping:

• Stunning Visual Impact: Features rich, deep red double bracts that provide an intense burst of color, unlike many other flowering plants. These vibrant hues create a captivating focal point in any garden or container, showcasing the beauty of the tropical climbing plant.
• Versatile Growth Habits: Can be trained as a climbing vine on trellises, fences, or walls, allowed to trail gracefully from hanging baskets, or maintained as a bushy shrub in containers. This adaptability makes it suitable for various garden designs, making bougainvillea care flexible.
• Drought-Tolerant Once Established: An excellent choice for water-wise gardening, as it requires minimal watering after its root system has developed, making it a resilient and sustainable option. This characteristic makes it a true drought tolerant bougainvillea.
• Low-Maintenance Beauty: Beyond occasional pruning to maintain shape, this plant thrives with minimal intervention, allowing you more time to enjoy its beauty rather than constant care. This makes bougainvillea care relatively easy for gardeners of all levels.
• Attracts Pollinators: The vibrant blooms are a magnet for butterflies and other beneficial pollinators, contributing to a healthier and more biodiverse garden ecosystem.
• Long-Lasting Blooms: Provides an extended period of flowering, ensuring your garden remains colorful and lively for many months, especially in warmer climates.
• Ideal for Tropical Climates: Thrives in warm, sunny conditions, making it perfect for USDA Zones 9–11, or as a container plant in cooler zones, brought indoors during winter.

Plant Care & Growing Tips

Caring for your double red bougainvillea live plant is straightforward, especially once it’s established. These tropical beauties thrive in conditions that mimic their native environment. For optimal growth and prolific blooming, provide full sun exposure; bougainvillea needs at least 6 hours of direct sunlight daily to produce its most vibrant bracts. Inadequate light will result in sparse flowering and leggy growth. When planting, choose a location with well-draining soil, whether in the ground or in a container. Bougainvilleas do not like wet feet, so good drainage is crucial to prevent root rot. If planting in a pot, ensure it has drainage holes and use a quality potting mix designed for tropical plants.

Watering should be consistent but moderate after planting. Once your bougainvillea is established, it becomes quite drought-tolerant. In fact, slightly drier conditions can encourage more intense blooming, as excessive water tends to promote leafy growth over flowers. Water deeply when the top few inches of soil feel dry, then allow it to dry out before the next watering. For fertilization, feed your plant during the active growing season (spring and summer) with a balanced fertilizer or one specifically formulated for flowering tropical plants. Reduce feeding in fall and winter. Pruning is essential for shaping the plant, encouraging denser growth, and stimulating new blooms. Prune after a flush of flowers to remove spent bracts and promote a new cycle of growth. This tropical climbing plant responds well to regular shaping, allowing you to control its size and form as a vine, shrub, or even a patio tree. Remember, this is a young red bougainvillea starter, so patience is key as it matures into a full-flowering specimen. For those in cooler climates, a bougainvillea can be successfully grown in containers and overwintered indoors before the first frost, simplifying bougainvillea care.

Size & Details

This offering includes a set of two healthy double red bougainvillea live plant starters. Each plant measures approximately 4–6 inches tall at the time of shipment. These are young, bare-root specimens, carefully packaged to ensure they arrive ready for planting. As a perennial tropical vine, its mature height can reach 6–10 feet when planted in the ground, depending on climate and training. In containers, it typically grows to 4–6 feet tall. The mature spread can range from 3–6 feet, influenced by pruning and how it is trained. These plants are shipped without a pot to minimize shipping stress and cost, allowing you to plant them directly into your preferred container or garden bed upon arrival. While photos may display mature plants, please note that these are starter plants and will require time and proper care to reach their full flowering potential. Expect vigorous growth and abundant blooms as the plants establish and mature, showcasing the beauty of this tropical climbing plant.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: How big will my double red bougainvillea live plant get? A: When planted in the ground, this bougainvillea can reach a mature height of 6-10 feet and a spread of 3-6 feet. If grown in a container, it typically remains smaller, around 4-6 feet tall, depending on pruning and pot size.
• Q: Is this an indoor or outdoor plant? A: The ‘Double Red’ Bougainvillea is primarily an outdoor plant, thriving in full sun. In USDA Zones 9–11, it can be grown year-round outdoors. In cooler zones, it can be grown in containers and brought indoors during winter. This makes bougainvillea care adaptable.
• Q: How much sunlight does this tropical climbing plant need? A: For abundant and vibrant blooms, your bougainvillea requires at least 6 hours of direct sunlight per day. Full sun exposure is crucial for its best performance.
• Q: What condition will the plants arrive in? A: You will receive a set of two healthy red bougainvillea starter plants, each 4-6 inches tall, shipped bare root and carefully packaged in eco-friendly materials to ensure their safety during transit. They are ready to be planted upon arrival.
• Q: Is this plant easy to care for? A: Yes, once established, the ‘Double Red’ Bougainvillea is considered low-maintenance and quite resilient. It is known for being a drought tolerant bougainvillea, making bougainvillea care relatively simple.
• Q: How long until my red bougainvillea starter blooms? A: As these are young starter plants, flowering will develop as the plants grow and mature. With proper care and sufficient sunlight, you can expect blooms within the first year or two, with more prolific flowering as the plant establishes.
• Q: Can I grow this bougainvillea in a pot? A: Absolutely! The ‘Double Red’ Bougainvillea is an excellent choice for container gardening, especially in cooler climates where it can be moved indoors during colder months. Ensure the pot has good drainage.
• Q: What USDA Hardiness Zones is this plant suitable for? A: This bougainvillea is hardy in USDA Zones 9–11 for outdoor planting year-round. Gardeners in cooler zones can enjoy it as an annual or overwinter it indoors.
• Q: What kind of soil does it prefer? A: It thrives in well-draining soil. For container planting, a good quality potting mix designed for tropical plants or one that ensures excellent drainage is recommended.
• Q: Will this plant attract pollinators? A: Yes, the vibrant blooms of the double red bougainvillea live plant are known to attract butterflies and other pollinators, adding life and activity to your garden.