How to shape bougainvillea? Speak with facts, take you to grow flowers at home and play with you with practical experience. In recent years, many friends have taken a liking to bougainvillea, probably because of its bright colors, various varieties, particularly long flowering period and easy management. There are three or five pots at home, which bloom all year round and are very beautiful. Many flower friends also make bougainvillea into bonsai of various shapes, which makes the plants more layered and enhances the appreciation value.

So, how to shape the bougainvillea? This problem is to start with the "embryonic form" of bougainvillea plants, and then make modeling techniques such as pruning, climbing or traction according to the embryonic form. Then after a period of growth, the branches are fixed into the designed and desired shape.

First, what is a prototype? Embryonic morphology of plants is the basic morphology of plant growth, which mainly refers to the basic growth morphology of base, trunk and trunk branches. Of course, the basic growth shape of the main branch can also be adjusted and changed artificially. For the simplest example, a straight plant has three main branches and some messy small side branches at the top (as shown below):

Take this most common plant embryo form as an example. If it is allowed to grow freely, it is a very common tree-like plant with no characteristics. If part of the lateral branches on the trunk and part of the lateral branches on the trunk are cut off, the trunk branches should be topped at appropriate positions (the requirements are that there should be a certain distance between the topping and cutting positions and the trunk, and the location where the trunk branches grow with dense lateral branches should be selected, and the reserved heights of the three branches should be different), such as the red line position. This forms the shape of a stem with three heads. Cut short the side branches at proper positions on the main branches to promote more side branches to germinate. The following two main branches can be pulled down with cloth or hemp rope, and the height requires one high and one low. If the top main branch feels too straight, you can climb or pull it up slightly, and you can also cut off the side branches to promote more side branches to germinate. In this way, after 1- 12 years of growth and further pruning, the plant will form a straight stem with two supports and one top.

For another example, some plants that fall or grow askew in their infancy can be processed into cliff-like or waterside bonsai according to their growth characteristics. Some plants with two branches can be made into double dry bonsai. Plants with slender trunks and some beautiful radians can be made into literati bonsai.

Second, climb up and down.

Climbing is an important means and method in the production and setting of bonsai. Because bougainvillea bougainvillea branches are brittle and easy to break, climbing and binding methods mostly include shaping some twigs and bending some small scales. Some lignified branches usually do not produce substantial bending changes.