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Central, FL, United States
I am a former teacher, aspiring artist, inveterate traveler This blog is about my Florida garden experience and its expression though poetry, philosophy, photography and art. It includes my other creative endeavors. Here can be found posts about travel to other gardens around the world. My garden is a half acre in zone 9a which includes a large water garden. I have mostly a shade garden because of the huge live oak. To keep things easy, I love to grow bromiliads,ferns,gingers and other tropicals. I need to have a low maintenance garden. In the summer we usually have plenty of rain and it transforms into a jungle. I have converted my swamp into the water garden where I grow irises, waterlilies, papyrus, radigan, spikebush and swamp lily. I also grow citrus (lemon,key lime,grapefruit,tangerines,pineapple,and loquats). Me?...Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses. (Ovid)

Jun 28, 2012

easy breezy airplants

la femme paresseuse du jardin

  

In this first shot you can see my amazing success with the Spanish variety of moss...heehee.



I  used driftwood as a base for some small bromiliads 

Lazy women and men love airplants.....especially with blackspot on roses and waterlogged orchids!


 


I  just made this Tailansia tree and I hope it will fill out!

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11 comments:

  1. Justin6/28/2012

    Really cool! I like it

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  2. Les7/03/2012

    I am sorry, but my favorite bromeliad is Spanish Moss. We just spent a night in Savannah on our way to south Fla., and I really made me miss the moss draped trees. We have it growing at home, but only in certain swamps, not all over. It really adds a mysterious quality to the landscape.

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    1. sharon7/03/2012

      dont be sorry!..I picked up a large garbage cans of it after the storm....we have so much we have to have it sprayed with copper...yes really! :-)

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  3. Anonymous7/04/2012

    Beautiful post . . . I love what you've done with the bromeliads. It looks like you live on a beautiful piece of land as well.

    eli

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    1. sharon7/05/2012

      thanks its a half acre...in a subdivision...looks rural because we are on the edge of this swampy area...some areas are good...and some areas have lots of tree roots and clay...

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  4. Meems7/04/2012

    Hi Sharon,
    Love all that moss dripping from the oaks. I like your bromeliads mounted to the wood and the new Tillandsia tree, too. What did you use to attach the plants to the wood? Meems

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    1. sharon7/05/2012

      I used wire on the tree and then covered that with Spanish moss.....I used some hot glue on some of the the bromiliads....I think the roots will attach when it starts to multiply....thanks

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  5. FlowerLady Lorraine7/05/2012

    Followed your link from eli's place and it's nice to see another FL gardener.

    The Spanish moss says old world Florida to me. I love how it is gracefully hanging in your oak tree.

    Love the bromeliads on the driftwood and the Tillandsia tree too. Both very creative and using what you have.

    Happy Gardening ~ FlowerLady

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  6. Unknown7/07/2012

    You have such beautiful plants in your garden! Great going!

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  7. Les7/11/2012

    I just got back from a week in so. Florida and was amazed at how many bromeliads were used as common landscape plants. It overwhelmed this plant geek.

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    1. sharon7/11/2012

      well its because they are carefree,colorful , have wonderful interesting inflorescence and you can easily steal them and they will spread well....you cant drownd them and they survive drought fairly well

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