I know I haven’t been posting in a while, I’m really trying to keep myself together, but here is the newest haul. (I’ve missed posting photos from the last 2 lol.)
The Monsteras are from Trader Joe’s! I found them in great shape for $12 like?? That’s a great price, right???? It’s in soil that’s like completely loose peat moss, too, like damn they really went ALL out for these!! If I wasn’t pressed for space in my room, I probably would have gotten another! The roots were SUPER root-locked though. It was really hard to separate the two, but I think I did it without too much damage. And they look great against this part of my wall that was blank before!
The Bromeliad is from Home Depot and was like $9…. …. But I NEEDED it, and was already spending money there on other things. I brought a really cool orange flat Bromeliad to the checkout, but as I was in line I realized it was wobbly and getting crown rot so, just the one now. This red one was also starting to rot because thEY PUT THE BROMELIADS IN COMPLETE HEAVY DENSELY-PACKED SOIL…. BROMELIADS ARE EPIPHYTES LIKE ORCHIDS!!!! NO SOIL!!!! So, I cleaned mine up, and it looks like the base grew in a peat pod, so I left that because it was packed on so tightly. I don’t think it will keep rotting now that I pulled the dead stuff out. It’s currently in orchid bark and sphagnum moss, in a special orchid pot. It’s also growing some white flowers inside the red bract leaves!! Hopefully it lasts a while and gives me a baby to propagate.
These plants also had like a 3 day quarantine because I’m lazy and impatient. If I don’t plant them now, I won’t be able to sit still. Anyway, just a small update on the most recent haul. I gotta post updates on what I got last month still. #plant #plants #indoorgardening #indoorplants #monstera #bromeliad #planthaul #fenestration (I love that word lol) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYh4Of_vQyj/?utm_medium=tumblr
In the fall, my Tillandsia caput-medusae air plant flowered and now it has a pup growing from its base! It will be exciting to watch this tiny air plant grow.
Almost every plant collection has some number of NOIDS - plants who cannot be identified for one reason or another. Without the original environment to give clues and some species or hybrids being too similar, if a tag has been lost it might be relegated to this status forever. This plant is one such in my collection - a division from a tagless plant, shared with me by a local grower.
I believe this plant is from the epiphytic genus, Neoregelia, within Bromeliaceae, the family which contains airplants, spanish moss, and even pineapple! More specifically, I think it is either a hybrid of, or is, the species Neoregelia pauciflora, given an epithet which means few-flowered. The flowers emerge from the cup which is often full of water (and can be seen reflecting in the traditional light image).
I’ve photographed the flowers of Tillandsia aeranthos and Tillandsia usneoides, and found both to be far less charismatic than this one which ranks highly among my favorite UVIVF subjects.
