Ft. Myers, FL–While visiting the Edison & Ford Winter Estates recently, I checked out the biggest darn bougainvillea ever. Edison gravitated to the property because of the bamboo trees, a cheap source of filaments for his lightbulbs. But he was experimenting with plants and growing all kinds of wonderful things, including bougainvillea. And now that shrub is like, 80-feet tall. It nearly tops the Royal Palms! I couldn’t even get it all into the photo frame, but it is gorgeous when blooming, isn’t it?