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Our August Program

​​Our August program was fun…


Bromeliads - From Down Under on the East Coast

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Our speakers in August were the Aizlewoods from the Gold Coast region of eastern Australia. They are great enthusiasts for the growing of bromeliads and have a great deal of experience that they shared with us.

Greg and Narelle Aizlewood reside in a small fishing village located on the coast midway between the Gold Coast and Brisbane in Queensland. The climate is described as sub-tropical with temperatures ranging from a minimum of 5C degrees during Winter to a 35C degrees maximum in summer. They have been growing bromeliads since 1985 and are in the process of trying to down size their collection. They enjoy travelling to the U.S.A. to attend the World Bromeliad Conferences and have only missed one conference since their first to San Diego in 2006.


Greg and Narelle have travelled extensively in South America to Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and Ecuador. Greg has been known to collect tillandsia seeds on most of those trips and has a very interesting tillandsia collection, a lot of which has been grown from seed. Greg’s love of bromeliads originally started with billbergias and he has registered quite a few billbergias hybrids. Narelle enjoys working with the softer leaved bromeliads, and together they have a good collection of John Arden’s hybrids. John sent seeds to Greg some years ago and we are just now getting to see the results of those seed growing ventures, crosses that John never lived to see.

  • Home
  • Join us! Membership
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    • Past: February 2023
    • Past: January 2023
    • Past: Oct. 2022
    • Past: Sept. 2022
    • June Show & Sale Balboa Park
    • Past: May 2022
    • World Brom Conference 2022
    • Past: April 2022
    • Past: March 2022
    • Past: Feb 2022
    • Past: Dec. 2021 Plant Sale
    • Past: Dec 2021
    • Past: Nov 2021
    • Past: Expo at SD Botanic Garden
    • Past: August 2021
    • Past: July 2021
    • Past June 2021
    • Past: May 2021
    • Past: April '21
    • past: March '21
    • past: February '21
    • past: January '21
    • Past: December
    • Past: November
    • Past: October
    • Past: September
    • Past: August
    • August Coffee in the Brom Garden
  • Past Newsletters
  • Videos
  • Join/About Us
    • 2019 Exhibition & Sale
    • WBC San Diego 2018
    • A Look Back: '17 Show & Sale
  • Bromeliad Genera
    • Alcantarea - Brazilian giants
    • Spotlight on Vriesea
    • Behold Billbergia
    • Spotlight on Neoregelia
  • Links
    • SDBS Facebook page
    • ZOONOOZ Beautiful Bromeliads [great article]
    • Bromeliad Society International
    • Florida Council of Bromeliad Societies
    • Queenlsand
    • East London
  • Growing Tips
    • Growing in San Diego
    • Water & Fertilzer
    • Potting & Soil
    • How Much Light?
    • Blog