Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-12-07 | Page 10 | Showy Coast Xmas Blooms Can be Grown in Utah Also

Sh Showy Wy Coast Xmas Blooms I Can be Grown in Utah Also I or L I IW 4 Bougainvillea vines usually cons considered dered too tender tender for Utah cultivation cultivation- bloom prof profusely sely in the thc conservatory conservatory con con- tory of Mr and Mrs l E. E F. F Dreyfous in Holladay climbing up to the thc roof Inset shows a of the showy purple magenta purple flower or more co correctly bracts By By MAUD CHEGWIDDEN Te Telegram Garden Editor Visitors to California must all have marveled at the showy bougainvillea vines which are axe so commonly grown on the houses houes i there here ere blooming at Chri Christmas t as time tim as gayly as in July and if they were vere possessed of gard gardens ns here at home must have sighed because su such uch 1 a a. a brilliant plant could nev never r be for them However it is quite possible to tol grow the bougainvillea and to have haveit havet haveit it t flower lux luxuriantly too if one is 15 is the happy possessor of ofa a in glassed-in porch which lich is so heated that a temperature of about 50 degrees may be maintained Two bougainvillea vines are now in n full bloom at the home of Mr and Mrs E. E F. F Dreyfous in Holla- Holla day ay One of the plants is six years odthe Id the other three They have reached cached the peaked roof of a glass conservatory which adjoins the house louse climbing up the stucco southwall south wall vail a height of perhaps 20 feet They hey are planted In the garth earth which forms the floor of f the conservatory and nd the temperature is very moderate mod- mod rate ate not that of a hothouse at all aU 11 Encouraged by the success with these two vines Mr Dreyfous Is going to try more of them in the in glassed-in porch along the front of the house onto which the doors of the living rooms open The floor here is of tile and so the vines areto are areto areto to be planted in huge glazed pots The bougainvillea has flowers which are small and inconspicuous these are the real flowers but what the layman refers to as the flower is a collection of three bracts surrounding surrounding surrounding sur sur- sur- sur rounding the flowers proper bracts about two inches long in a lively shade of magenta or deep lavender There are also some new varieties in red The bougainvilleas at t the Dreybus Dreyfous Dreyfous Drey Drey- fous bus home are almost always in bloom and call for no very special care except of ot course protection from cold