Then it blooms even in the winter!
(Oh, my, I really have to take care of the front root...
When I repot it in the Spring!)

Thanks for taking the time to see my little bonsai, Mimo.
I guess being a Brazilian native, Bougainvilleas feel at home even in little pots.

Thanx to you Clicio for sharing
I would love to get one bougie myself one day.

That's really great Clicio! I'd love to start training a bouganvillea myself but Milan winters may not be ideal - had one (no bonsai at all) in my balcony many years ago and it never bloomed at all, probably due to suffering the low temps - as I bonsai however I'd cover it to protect from cold and frost and... who knows?

lovely.. i am planning to start out and build a shohin bougainvillea... would love to come to you for advice when i do.

Looking good there. Interesting to see this one flower without leaves. My bougies first grow a bunch of leaves, then flower. I have one of them in training for bonsai, but it is slow going. They do not like to grow thicker.

Ricky73 wrote:

I'd love to start training a bouganvillea myself but Milan winters may not be ideal?

Do it!
They are wonderfully good to grow.
I guess they need a lot of sun to bloom, and yes, winter protection in Milano, for sure.
But...
I've seen many beautiful ones in south Italy, Greece, Spain... I think they like the Mediterranean weather.

Yes there are really wonderful bougies in Italy and all along the Mediterranean coast... Milan has a typical continental weather... hot, humid (unbearable...) summers and cold winters. But I'll go for it with winter protection!

leatherback wrote:

Interesting to see this one flower without leaves. My bougies first grow a bunch of leaves, then flower...

This one is quite old, and of course full of green leaves in the spring/summer; but then in the fall after getting a good trim...
Only flowers!
Not only flowers (in fact bracts, which as you well know are modified or specialised colourful leaves, with the function of attracting pollinators).
Perhaps putting yours near a white wall can help, as they do in Mykonos (they thrive over there);
See:
"Bougainvillea needs at least 6 hours of full sun a day to flower profusely and look its best. This plant loves the heat too. No enough sun = not enough color. If you live where it’s borderline zones hardy, planting a bougainvillea against a warm wall will help."

Oh, i get more flowers then i like. But they all grow first , except for a small flowered pink one. That one has small.leaves and each leaf has a flower brackt.