Bougainvillea from a cutting

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Bougainvillea from a cutting

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A few years ago i took a bougainvillea from my nanas place and began to bonsai it, this was a small cutting around the size of a pencil at the time that i stuck in the front garden

fast forward to now and i dug it up this afternoon cut it back hard and tried to save as many roots as possible but most of them were lost being so fragile so i am hoping it still recovers, i think it will drop its leaves then hopefully bounce back.
i forget to get pictures of it before i finished unfortunately but it was just lots of long thin branches

only photo i got aha
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Nice trunk :yes: well worth collectig that one.
I love bougies

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Re: Bougainvillea from a cutting

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Thanks ken!

I Didn't know it had such a good trunk until about a week ago as i had basically forgotten about it, once i saw it i just had to dig it up :lol: :tu:
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:tu: :yes:
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