BOUGAINVILLE, The Stubborn Beauty ..🙃

BOUGAINVILLE, The Stubborn Beauty ..🙃

Ah, bougainvillea! Who doesn't know this blushing beauty? I myself have a unique story with it. Back then, when I was still living in my grandmother's house there was a pink bougainvillea growing wild in the corner of the yard. My grandmother always grumbled, "Just cut it! It grows haphazardly, creeping everywhere!"

But I always defended this stubborn one. "Grandma, honey... Look at the flowers, they are so beautiful like crepe paper stretched out in the air."

Hahahaha... Yes indeed, bougainvillea is like a disobedient teenager. If you want to trim it, it will grow again the next day. If you want to direct it to the left, it will creep to the right. Stubborn! But that's where its charm lies.

Just imagine, its thin pink and white petals are like hundreds of butterflies perched together. Not to mention when blown by the wind, they dance, making anyone who passes by definitely turn their heads. It's fresh green leaves seemed to laugh mockingly: "Hey, look, I can grow anywhere!" 🙃

One morning I found my neighbor observing my grandmother's bougainvillea from behind the fence. "Wow, the flowers are so beautiful. What fertilizer did you give them?" she asked curiously. I just smiled, thinking: "Fertilizer? Seriously! They even thrive even though they are neglected!"

Bougainvillea is like an artist who doesnt need heavy makeup to look beautiful. In a tropical country like Indonesia it is a prima donna who never gives up. Scorching heat? She is even more enthusiastic about flowering. Heavy rain? Her flowers remain upright, challenging the sky.

Now every time I see bougainvillea, I remember my grandmother and her nagging. But strangely, until my grandmother died, she never pruned the stubborn bougainvillea. Maybe my grandmother also secretly fell in love with its rebellious beauty.

And that is the bougainvillea flower a plant that teaches us that true beauty does not need to obey the rules. Sometimes it is precisely from this stubborn attitude that uniqueness is found, such as the bougainvillea flower that I photographed in a garden that is not mine!