Tag Archives: tillandsias
Tillandsia Tuesday
* Tillandsia duratii has the most fragrant flower over the longest period of time. There is currently more demand than supply. * Tillandsia xerographica’s inflorescence can last up to a year. It has been overcollected in its home of Guatemala. … Continue reading
Posted in Plant Portraits
Tagged air plants, bromeliads, California, Rainforest Flora, tillandsias, Torrance
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some upcoming events this weekend 4/30-5/1/16
Tillandsias can perch just about anywhere with the right conditions, including on other plants. This weekend brings the Mary Lou Heard Memorial Garden tour. I don’t think I’ll be able to make it, so if you go, link back here … Continue reading
concrete containers by Dustin Gimbel
Dustin’s Facebook feed is showing lots of new work, and I just had to pop over to see what he’s been up to, even if it was almost too late in the afternoon for photos. Invariably, whenever I post on … Continue reading
dishy tillandsias
From a garden on the Los Angeles Garden Conservancy Open Days tour last weekend.
this is my brain on spring
Spring is such a massive distraction, and that’s coming from just my own little garden, which apart from work* I rarely want to leave. For the first time in my adult life, I drove by a multiplex theater on Sunday … Continue reading
Posted in garden travel, plant nurseries, succulents
Tagged alcantarea, Andy's Orchids, bromeliads, Cerbera odollam, Cosmos 'Yellow Garden', eiphyllums, Entada sp., epidendrums, Graptopetalum pentandrum ssp. superbum, Graptopetalum superbum 'Cotton Candy', rhipsalis sp., Southern California Spring Garden Show 2014, tillandsias
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where would Holly Golightly keep her tillandsias?
For the holidays, it’s okay to ditch the earnest glass orbs that imprison tillandsias the rest of the year and take a leaf from Holly Golightly’s decorating book, the one that epitomizes her insouciant glamour. The one each of us … Continue reading
Bloom Day August 2013
Not too much of a change since July’s Bloom Day post, when I predicted the Persicaria amplexicaulis would own the garden in August, and the vibrant crimson spikes have done just that. This knotweed is the legacy of foolishly trialing … Continue reading
Posted in Bloom Day
Tagged Anthemis 'Susanna Mitchell', Crassula exilis subsp. cooperi, Cuphea viscosissima, Dalea purpurea, Eryngium pandanifolium, fruit trees, Gaillardia 'Oranges & Lemons', gomphrena, Lessingia filaginifolia, Lotus jacobaeus, Manihot grahamii, Nepeta 'Walker's Low', Nicotiana 'Ondra's Brown Mix', Passiflora loefgrenii, Persicaria amplexicaulis, Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Alba', Russelia equisetiformis, Salvia chiapensis, tillandsias
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Rolling Greens Culver City (tillandsia porn)
A fresh shipment of tillandsias had just arrived when I visited Rolling Greens yesterday for their 75 percent-off sale, which ends today. Almost all of these little bromeliads were in bloom or about to bloom. Lordy. Like agaves, most tillandsias … Continue reading
Posted in design, plant nurseries
Tagged bromeliads, monocarpism, Rolling Greens Culver City, tillandsias
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kokedama for slackers
If you keep up with just a few design blogs, there’s probably no need to explain kokedama, or Japanese mossed bonsai strung up like plant puppets, which I posted about here. Those expert creations involve carefully calibrating a plant’s light … Continue reading
tuesday clippings 3/26/13
Nothing too thematic, just some odds and ends. To prove I left the plant sale tables briefly and did a lap in the show room at the recent Orange County CSSA show, here’s a Dyckia ‘Brittle Star’ hybrid that won … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, clippings, Occasional Daily Photo, plant crushes, Plant Portraits
Tagged Agave americana var. striata, Dyckia 'Brittle Star', Geranium maderense 'Alba', Isoplexis isabelliana, Melianthus 'Purple Haze', pittosporum, poppies, Prostranthera ovalifolia 'Variegata, tillandsias
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