A splash of colour

Another breath taking Bougainvillea on the streets of Barcelona. This ones fence two sides of a sports ground. They form 7 m tall walls of deep magenta purple flowers.
Drought tollerant and low maintenance, these Bougainvilleas make the perfect planting and add an huge colour splash for month and month.

Who's affraid of magenta II

Some pictures I snatched yesterday in Barcelona... 

All of a sudden a cascade of magenta bougainvillea just popped into my sight and I could not stop myself from photographing it! 

What do you think? I was pretty overhelmed by the strength of this plant... 

magenta - are we affraid of colour?

 an eye catching batch of Drosanthemum Hispidum at the Villa Hanbury in Italy, used as a magenta flower carpet. the efect is bold and rather impressive

 a Piet Oudolf lanscape that comments itself...

 I dressed the feet of my white oleanders with purple and magenta mesembrianteums

and the purple bougainvilia with white convolvulus cneorum -the huge "ball" here not yet in bloom