tillandsias

This year, customer demand grew, and his sales of holiday tillandsias grew to more than 2,000 from about 500 last year.

Greenery, With Hints of the Forest and Desert Anne Marie Chaker 2011

The tillandsias are so easy and so sweet, we just love them.

Bloom Day/Foliage Day Combo-February 2010 « Fairegarden 2010

The collection was edited down to the epiphytic, tree dwelling, tillandsias and the terrestrial cryptanthus, shown in the pot above.

Bromeliads-Cryptanthus and Tillandsia « Fairegarden 2008

The tillandsias are usually sold glued to something or other.

Bromeliads-Cryptanthus and Tillandsia « Fairegarden 2008

The tillandsias are about as low maintenance as a plant can get.

Bromeliads-Cryptanthus and Tillandsia « Fairegarden 2008

Once she appeared in the doorway to say that her husband had found the señor's pony, unharmed, m the grove of tillandsias over near the trail.

Rose Orchid 1914

Then, motioning to the paymaster to follow, she started round the path encircling the house toward the grove of tillandsias in the rear.

The Pay Yeoman 1914

One species (the casicus cristatus) weaves its nest of lichens, bark fibres, and the filaments of the tillandsias; another (the casicus ruba) of dry grasses, and always suspends it over the water.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Here are seen tillandsias and bromeliaceae, like the crowns of huge pineapples; large climbing arums, with their dark green and arrow-head shaped leaves, forming fantastic and graceful ornaments swinging in mid-air; while huge-leaved ferns and other parasites cling to the stems up to the very highest branches.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

You could try air plants (tillandsias) which have the advantage of needing no soil.

Popular Posts Across MetaFilter 2010