Be warned, this is a bit longer than usual posts but it is an important subject when you start to collect plants. People are often intimidated or put off by botanical names for plants but there are very good reasons to use the correct names. Taxonomy is the classification of...
Propogating Tillandsias
Today I wanted to wrtie a little on how Tillandsias are propagated. This is particularly important at this time as the majority of Tillandsias grown in SA are imported and when there are no flights there will be no new imported plants. Tillandsias can be propagated by seed or vegetatively....
Making babies!
One of the marvellous attributes of Tillandsias is that they reproduce vegetatively by making pups or offsets. This means that you can have more plants to seperate and gow on elsewhere or form beautiful clumps. It is interesting that not all Tillandsias offset in the same way. Most Tillandsias are...