Bougainvillea Spectabilis 'Alexandra'

#bougainvillea-alexandra #purple

Need this. It's my name.

@cyndi @lexicon I tried collecting all colours. Tooooo many. Plus those bloody thorns. Bougainville is just north of Brisbane in PNG Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 use to be Australian territory. In the highlands, cannabinolism only stopped in 70s?? Anyway , in my lifetime. There’s videos on what happens to them ☹️

@cyndi you are. Last place on earth to outlaw. It was so sad to watch how mad they went. YouTube it if you’re game.

1973 PNG gained independence from Australia. So I guess it had been going on a long time as part of our country. Shame. Goes to show that colonialism is about collecting land like trinkets. I guess we couldn’t change their culture overnight, so it was left unchecked. Sad.

I hear ya sister 🤮@cyndi

Me neither. It was their culture. They still have odd ways of worshiping their ancestors. They pull them out of storage every year (mummified) to bless them. @cyndi

#bougainvillea #purple #bracts

One of my favourites! Mine has lost its flowers now but it’s the same colour as yours 💖

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