tarev said:I am re-thinking if I will still try bougainvillea again. Maybe I should stick to the more common variety, that one seems more heat tolerant here.

Sorry to hear your boug didn't make it. Sometimes they come back from dead. It happened to one of mine. It looked dead for a couple of months but I was still watering it because there was a volunteer plant growing next to it. The new shoots started to grow from the main trunk an inch above the soil. Don't give up! You can also try another variegated bougainvillea. You can keep it inside your house for overwintering. They do just fine inside.

Tarev, those magenta bougies do fine out in Palm Springs with enough water so the temps at your place shouldn't faze them. I did plant some of the pinkish white ones and some variegated at my friends house in Cathedral City and they were very slow to get going. I thought they were not going to make it but she says after about a year they seemed to do better and now they are healthy and blooming. They don't get as huge and overwhelming as the magenta though.

Thanks for the info Jonna, well, I am just leaving the bougie in its container for now. No new growth, just a stick there. If it still does not wake up later on...bye bye bougie...