Bougainvillea

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I have been given a small one of these in a pot. Looked up how to care for it. It seems to grow very big, needs a trellis, up to 8meters. But needs to be kept frost free and brought inside in the winter. Kept above 10° at night!

How??

I can plant it in a pot, but have nowhere inside it can fgo, especially if it starts climbing up a trellis.

As you can probably tell, I'm not a gardener...

They are gorgeous, but not suitable for an English climate.

This is what I thought. Its doomed to quick and certain death then.

In Mediterranean countries the temperature often falls well below 10C at night, and there is even occasionally frost/snow. Obviously prolonged cold periods are rare there, but the bougainvillea is pretty resistant.
If I were you I would try a thick mulch at the base and wrap fleece around it at the start of winter.

Ours is in a pot against a wall. It loses all it's leaves in winter then grows back. It's survived a couple of winters so far

Thank you. I'll try and fine the sunniest spot for it. The back garden is in full sun until the afternoon in summer. Glad to hear it might survive!

In uk they are normally bought as house plants.

i would love one of these plants but yes worried about the uk climate

We have bought this the last 4 years, only one year did one manage to survive. They really don't grow like they should due to climate and we are on the south coast. But flowers are pretty for summer

Oh dear. Its curreny on the kitchen side. I've kept it in due to the turn in the weather here. I feel bad planting it out when it'll die

People usually have them in conservatories in the UK. It is a shame, they are so lovely.

Not a seasoned gardener at all but I am in a country where these are very popular and they grow huge! They are beautiful and can grow up walls covering them in flowers and are commonly seen covering hedges. As pp. say though they don't like the cold. The specific area I am in does get below 10 degrees at night for a few months on end although we never get frost they do survive up here but they don't grow as quickly or as well as they do elsewhere in the country. You might find it doesn't grow to big in a pot in the UK and if you have a conservatory it would be happy there over winter