Milo, the love bug

My new project.

I had this one from the uplands last Christmas. We attended a basketball league and one of the head teachers of the district hosted lunch for us. A lucky lunch indeed.

We visited their ancestral house which is near his newly built home and there it was, in their backyard, sitting unnoticed is a 30 year-old bougainvillea. I asked him if it's okay I bring it home and had a smiley nod from him. It took me about 20 minutes to find a shovel and a jungle bolo, cause i couldn't find that in their home and another 30 minutes to dig it out.

The specimen is about 10 inches tall (roots not included) and a diameter of about 12 inches. I placed it in an old clay wood stove for confinement. I hope it could grow leaves and roots in a couple of weeks.

Pulis love Maestra (Police love Teacher)

I saw these lovely bonsai at the house of my good friend and had the opportunity to inspect it closely. These are bougainvillea's that are decades old and resemble a sitting woman and a man with a rifle, the reason maybe why the owner posted it in Facebook calling it pulis ken maestra...

At the recently concluded Trade Fair in our hometown, the owner of these lovely bonsai sold some of his collections for as low as 120 dollars.

Tres Marias (three sisters)

These specimens are still in their growing pots, these are decades old specimens.

These set of bougainvillea's came from a single trunk from an elementary school in Ilocos Sur which are already 50 years old. Some of the plants are still there and are carved out, resembling big baskets, well most of it, but the others are merely in a round shape or odd shapes. The trunk was removed because it cannot be shaped to anything that could be a source of inspiration because of its old age.

Luckily I was there when they cut it out and I was one of the lucky ones who got a piece of it. It was divided into three parts, and me getting the middle part of the trunk. I cut it into three parts for source specimen and brought it home and planted in a pot for confinement. I am still finding a suitable display pot to put into.

Bougainvillea's are easy to propagate but very hard to manipulate. These specimens are valuable because of their age. A visiting friend of mine (an american) is so interested in it that he wants to buy it for a hefty price. I'm still thinking about selling it, what do you think?