el color púrpura

The purple bougainvillea around the neighborhood, as well as my own, are coming into bloom. To my eye, it isn't the prettiest color of the bougainvillea, it is supposed to be the most floriferous. Mine was covered in bracts for 1/2 the year and then it stopped flowering but grew quite a bit.

The ubiquitous magenta is a pleasant color. But although I can get it to bloom regularly with some heavy feeding, it is at times, leafless and can look skeletal when the flowering slow down.

There are other colors I need to try, I've held off thinking that they would have very limited bloom periods but having sprays of different colored bougainvillea on the terrace to cheer the eye would heaven.

Not my favorite color boug, but with the variegated leaves the color really pops

Bougainvillea  is a genus of flowering plants native to South America from Brazil west to Peru and south to southern Argentina (Chubut Province). Different authors accept between four and 18 species in the genus. The plant was classified by Europeans in Brazil in 1768, by Philibert Commerçon, a French botanist accompanying French Navy admiral and explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville during his voyage of circumnavigation.   *Possibly useful tips for growing Bougainvillea