I bought some spanish moss (tillandsia usneoides) back in February as I had an idea to add it to my spider plant hanging baskets. I didn't realise how fast it grows though. Top pic is mid Feb and bottom pic is today after dividing the bunch up a bit.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
More tillandsia fun. I pollinated this ionantha scaposa by hand well over a year ago and the seed pod has been slowly swelling until it finally popped open today. The seeds are wind dispersed like giant dandelion seeds so they're everywhere and mixed in with all the other plants. I've managed to gather most of them up to see if I can get them to germinate.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
A couple of weeks after the seed pod burst the plant clump is flowering again. It's actually from a pup that formed last winter and once this flower finished it should make some more pups I hope.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The tillandsia seeds germinated at about a 90% success rate and are now just starting to form the leaves. It's a slow process though as they have no roots so are getting all their nutrients from sunlight and rain water for now.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
@wild edges that's beautiful. I would love one of those, and an oxalis, but I never seem to have enough time to care for my houseplants as it is.
It's probably my least demanding houseplant. As long as it gets plenty of light and I remember to water it occasionally then it just gets on with its own thing. The only pest problem I have is my wife who keeps knocking stems off it. The broken stems root up in no time though and I've got quite a few new plants coming along now.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I'm not sure what to do with this thing. This was after a prune to get it through the greenhouse door. It's not as tall as the photo makes it look but it's about 5' now.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
It's what happens when you learn how to keep a plant happy
My Jade trees aren't a problem yet, as I keep them in small terracotta pots on a south-facing windowsill and water only when leaves start to fall off, so they are almost bonsai. But my Sanseveria, Peacelily and Bilbergia are all huge, filling their pots and really need splitting or moving up a size, but there is nowhere else left for them to grow happily, whichever I do. My Monstera takes up a whole corner of my sitting room and sits on a wheeled stand so I can move it to clean.
The back porch, front porch and one end of the greenhouse are all full of plants that like those positions and I love the green, jungly feel you get from having so many plants indoors, but I'll soon be skulking in a corner myself
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Never saw this thread before, I'll post a photo of my strelitzia later, it's a plant the size of a house, that counts right?