Many people have always asked in Facebook Bougainvillea group how to plant this beautiful bougainvillea tree. Because of it’s vibrant, papery and many flowers in clusters, many people are captivated to get this plant.
Many bonsai creators are using big trunks of bougainvillea to make the bonsai like it has been trained as bonsai for many years because of the big trunks. Those that are starting to get to a bonsai hobby have no slightest idea that these trunks were planted as big trunks already.
I too when I was a beginner in making bougainvillea bonsai was always amazed and would imagine how many years these kind of bonsai has been in training. These bougainvillea bonsai are very beautiful especially when it flowers. A miniature tree with lots of flowers is captivating to the eye of the beholder.
Many bonsai creators are using the ICU or Intensive Care Unit as a technique on how to plant these big trunks of bougainvillea. My method is different. I don’t use the ICU method as I don’t like seeing the big plastic covering the big trunks. I am using the candle method as an alternative.
Watch this video and find out how to use this method to successfully plant your big trunks of bougainvilleas.
