Oh,YES!!!!! I'm shouting with excitement. Now it will have a baby. I love air plants.I love plants.....

plants rock!!!
So glad to be hanging out with a bunch of plant nerds like myself

Isn't that the truth, fellow nerd.

Guess , we are all a little "nerdie" when it comes to plants. Dog gone, we must be in right place, huh????

Lovely tillandsia you have there Tee! That's the thing I love with the tillandsia, it can stay anywhere Now I need to do more research on how to properly grow a bromeliad I can grow other tillandsia, but the bromeliad for me needs some more learning

Yes, the learning curve, tarev. Well, practice makes perfect. I'm sure you'll succeed.

I need to get on that learning curve for the bromeliads too. I had that lovely one given to me and I never gave it water but it was where it could get rain. Apparently, the end of our rainy season was too much for it, it rotted out. It had a couple of little pup shoots too, I found them on the rotted base and opened them to the air in hopes they would live but they rotted too. I think here they need to either be in the air or in something very light like sand. It came in nice loamy dirt and I should have pulled it out. Maybe I'll try again.

Air plants though, they are more than easy here even if I forget to water them in the dry season they go dormant and return with the rains. Of course, they are also native here. We have them strung along the phone wires in the rainy season.

Tillandsias growing on the phone wires and up in the trees ...I envy you that!! Plants in their natural environment are the best. Air Plants are a bit trickier here ... gotta remember to mist them and then make sure the water hasn't collected in the center ... so shake them out well and let them drain upside down for awhile. Don't let them get too cold or frost or freeze. Make sure they get enough sunlight. That's one big mistake a lot of people make here. I've lost a couple because I put them where they didn't get quite enough light.

Yes, most of them are in full to almost full sun here, perhaps in the branches of a tree but they still get quite a lot of light. They do rot easily if they don't drain, I always tie them to whatever I'm putting them on so that they slope a little down and all the water runs off. That way I can just hit them with the hose in the dry season and they don't rot in the rainy season. I really should have taken that brom out of the dirt. I'm still upset with myself about that.

In CA, I just tied or glued them to boards and hung them on the lanai patio. And, of course, they could stay outdoors year around. I did the same ... doused them with the hose occasionally. In LaJolla, the fog rolled in many days at least for a little while so didn't have to think much about watering. I loved being able to have them outside like that as opposed to indoors. Of course, I was zone 10 and 11 out there as you are. The problem here is that there is little selection. You can't find them here most of the year.

Saw the nice article. Just went through the first freeze with my broms. The ones under good cover seem to have managed quite well but those out in the open are turning white and seem to be either dead or close to it. Time will tell.

Thanks, Fred. I do hope they make it. Temps under 40º are really tough on them. Do you get a lot of freezing weather?

We get one night (OK last year it was two) nights of freezing weather but it really throws my garden for a loop. This year was half as bad as last year maybe because it was only one night of 28 degrees or so. Like I said, the only damage seems to be where the broms had no vover at all. Even my blanchetiana are turning white because they are out there in full sun without cover. See picture below.


No name Aechmeas are doing fine


Don't know what this is either? A Guzmania?


In general all else looks fine

Now that's a lovely bed of Broms. I'd hate to see you lose even one of them. How old are the plants there?

I can't tell for certain if that is a Guzmania but it certainly looks to me like it is.

Blooming Tillandsia recurvatas on a limb of an oak tree in our yard. I was more fascinated by all the different fungi and moss attached to the limbs.

Nice that you have them all growing in your trees ... Tillandsia, fungi and moss. Same here ... minus the Tillandsias.

There aren't supposed to harm the trees, but now some are saying they may be strangling the limbs and cutting off nutrition to them.

We're expecting a front to come thru this evening. It's been 75 all afternoon. Tonight it will fall to 39 and tomorrow evening it will be 29! There will be lots of branches down in the yard. Maybe I should set up a Tillandsia farm!

Is it the combination of those three that might be strangling the tree limbs? Wish I could set up a Tillandsia farm.

It was 60º here yesterday and will be 20º tonight! A little snow coming this afternoon. It will be our first accumulation of the year.