Happy March!

It has been a pretty cold winter here for us, and I guess pretty much everyone else as well.  I have never seen the bougainvillea lose leaves and flowers and look so DEAD.  I mean these things are all over the place, growing huge and tall and they look like nature's curtains, cascading long flower covered limbs vibrant with color...some are pink, some purple, some red and every shade in between.  Even white.  But now they look pitiful...I did manage to find a single bloom on this plant in our back yard.