Tillandsia
My air plants arrived this week. They’re too small to put in the glass candleholders I’d found, but were just right for the two bonsai pots from the same secondhand store. I also got a bell cup to hold one of the tillandsia. Air plants care gives better information than I’d seen elsewhere; I’d been under the (mistaken) impression that a very humid room would be all right, with sprinkled water occasionally. But they need more water, and more directly than that!
There are larger photos of the rectangular pot with its brachycaulis abdita and three different ionantha, and the circular pot with its albertiana and ionantha rubra.
May 2nd, 2008 at 18:03
Beautiful plants! Are they in the aloe family? I wonder how they would fare in the desert climate where I live – more frequent watering, perhaps. But I am famous for my lack of green thumb, so I hesitate to do plants, the poor things might suffer in my care.
(By the way, this is your friend who was living in Marseille…I’m in Arizona now mostly, but will be in Marseille this summer! How ya been?)
May 3rd, 2008 at 18:57
They’re not in the aloe family, though you’re right they do look like they could be!
I do remember you! There’s a music shop here that has all sorts of derbouka in their vitrine and it’s always reminded me of you :) Nice to hear from you again, it had been a while! Hope all’s well with you too.
May 7th, 2008 at 23:44
Ooh, save me a derbouka! I have two, but they’re like handbags, can’t have too many ;) But actually, I am more involved with flamenco dance than with playing percussion these days. Except if you count castanets – that’s percussion ;)
I have been well…I have kind of a chaotic life, but it’s not all bad!
I might go back to school to get a teaching certificate, and become a French teacher. I’m doing nothing with my French, and I shouldn’t waste it like that.
May 3rd, 2009 at 13:18
Hey how are your tillandsias going? It would be great too see a photo one year on. Glass candle holders are a great idea. Have any flowered for you in the year?
May 3rd, 2009 at 18:29
They’re all dead — my cats destroyed them, I’m afraid. I won’t be getting any more because of that, though I wish I could.