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Originally Posted by elle123 View Post
A Bougainvilla probably won't survive a central Florida winter. They grow fabulously in south Florida.
Au contraire! Ours in our CYV grew like crazy, and my husband had to get on a ladder to keep it from growing over the wall. And the thorns! We had it taken out. We don't miss it.


We had a Japanese lilac bush at our Michigan condo that I trained from a bush into a tree. It grew to be 15 feet tall and flowered every spring after the first three years. I think our crepe myrtle here used to be a bush and is now a big tree.
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