Welcome
to the
San Diego
Bromeliad Society.
Look for details of our summer picnic in August at Pam’s Bird Rock Tropicals. Look in your email inbox for the potluck picnic eblast for details time, date, address.
Tillandsia ‘Samantha’
Bromeliads at the San Diego Botanic Garden
by Scott Sandel
Bromeliads at the SDBG
We can help to enrich the bromeliad collection at the San Diego Botanic Garden. John Clements, the Horticulture Manager, is renovating some garden areas at the SDBG. The Palm Garden on the main thoroughfare at the SDBG is the perfect place for many types of bromeliads. John is incorporating bromeliads in the gardens there to great effect, and he’s bringing in logs and tree snags for mounting epiphytes.
I asked if he would like more bromeliads for the gardens there, and he said definitely yes! I would like to organize getting some plants from the club to him for use at the garden. (We won’t have planting or maintenance responsibilities.)
So look at your collection and consider donating some extras that you may have. The sun orientation there runs the spectrum between high light and filtered lower light.
I will be accepting your donations at our September meeting in Balboa Park. Plants should be in good condition. Got questions? Ask me about it at the picnic or send me an email at Scott.Sandel@outlook.com.
I asked if he would like more bromeliads for the gardens there, and he said definitely yes! I would like to organize getting some plants from the club to him for use at the garden. (We won’t have planting or maintenance responsibilities.)
So look at your collection and consider donating some extras that you may have. The sun orientation there runs the spectrum between high light and filtered lower light.
I will be accepting your donations at our September meeting in Balboa Park. Plants should be in good condition. Got questions? Ask me about it at the picnic or send me an email at Scott.Sandel@outlook.com.
THANK YOU to all who made our June Exhibition & Sale in Balboa Park a HUGE success.
It was a team effort, headed by Morlane (sales) and Juliana (exhibit). So many pitched in to volunteer it was inspiring — from sales to security! And so many folks brought in plants...
Check out the photos page here.
Last Year, at the
World Bromeliad Conference
Here are a few plants that were in the show at the World Bromeliad Conference in May of 2018 at Mission Bay Park, San Diego . . .
Vriesea 'Wild Jean' hybrid, exhibited by David Fell
Dyckia 'Baker's Domain'
Tillandsia ionantha, exhibited on cork bark by Dave Kennedy
clump of Neoregelia punctatissima, exhibited by Ted Johnson
Bromeliads
pronounced broh-MEE-le-ads
. . . flowering plants belonging to the plant family Bromeliaceae.
There are more than 3,000 species and hundreds of hybrids.
In a Nutshell:Bromeliads are members of a plant family known as Bromeliaceae (bro-meh-lee-AH-say-eye). The family contains over 3000 described species in approximately 56 genera. The most well known bromeliad is the pineapple. The family contains a wide range of plants including some very un-pineapple like members such as Spanish Moss (which is neither Spanish nor a moss). Other members resemble aloes or yuccas while still others look like green, leafy grasses.
In general they are inexpensive, easy to grow, require very little care, and reward the grower with brilliant, long lasting blooms and ornamental foliage. They come in a wide range of sizes from tiny miniatures to giants. They can be grown indoors in cooler climates and can also be used outdoors where temperatures stay above freezing. |
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Just a few of the many genera in the bromeliad world...
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Aechmea
Alcantarea Ananas Billbergia Bromelia Cannistrum Cryptanthus Dyckia Guzmania Hechtia |
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Hohenbergia
Neoregelia Nidularium Portea Orthophytum Pitcairnia Puya Quesnelia Sincoraea Tillandsia Vriesea |