Bougainvillea: Adding colour to Greek landscape

After spending some quality time in X's house catering and nurishing her trees and flowers, today I feel like writting for one of my most favourite plants/flowers: bougainvillea.

According to Wikipedia:
Bougainvillea (sometimes Bougainvilla) is a genus of plant. It is a thorny, woody, flowering vine native to the Amazonian rain forest of South America. Its name is derived from that of Louis Antoine de Bougainville, a French military officer who discovered the plant in Brazil in 1768.

This beautiful 'flower' (i prefer calling it a flower than plant) is always present in most of the Greek houses (outside Athens!) and is always there to give its precious and vivid colour to white and blue trademark landscape of continental & insular villages. Just look at this beautiful picture (I found it on the net, thanks to whoever took it) and you can see what I mean.

X's 'country' house has 4 of them. Two mauve, one white and a special mauve with yello/green flowers. All of them try to find a way to climp on the walls and we are there to help them do so so they can provide us with shadow and privacy!