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No kidding....another bromeliad crack here lol....:laugh::laugh::laugh:
Seriously, that's a nice spacious yard. If I were you I'd be filling it up faster than you can say 'Bromeliaceae'!!
As for the Tills, I can only identify a few the rest looks like they need a closer view. In the first pic The grassy tills are tillandsia juncea, the second pic the cabbage-like type is xerographica and the one next to it is fasciculata. The half pic one on the far right is strica silver leaf. Just my two cents. :tongue:

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Hi

I saw some air plats or in this case you guyss call it tills?

Not fammilir with this kind of plants for sure...Well i see them seeling just the plant and the(rhyzome?) with not roots and they seem happy just like that o.0 So you mean they don't have roots?It does look kinda hardy but i'm not so sure will read further on this kind of plants and maybe i might even be interested to start growing them despite my decreasing space in my condo...

Ken

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Ken, with tillandsias there's no such thing as the no-space dilemma :tongue:. Overall, tillandsias are happy no matter they are hanging or sitting somewhere on a stone or holder, as long as you give them regular watering, sunlight and liquid fertiliser. The more you buy, you will be surprised at the more ideas and space you can find for them :2thumbup:.

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Hi Funky

Yeah i guess i can even place them at the side too......Making it look more jungly???How often do they have to be watered?? And also will they do fine with the neps??

Ken

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thts is true...its soiless gardening with glue or fastener..good light, humidity and air circulation and u have urself hanging garden of babylon..lol..wanna share u with my air garden...
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Hi Nautilus

Ummm must they be attached to something or can i just place them in an exposed area with nothin to hold onto but its standing in a stable position....I'm just afraid that if i put it with neps it might be too much water for it.

Ken

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Ken,

You can hang your plants or glue them to a piece of bark or branch with hot glue or tie with fishing line. You can get hot glue guns from ACE hardware or any hardware shophouse. Free-hanging plants is done by tying the piece of string or wire to the plant and let it dangle just like that or you might want to cut a length of rubber tubing and joining the ends to make a circular tube on which to balance your plant (credits to David for introducing this method, works well for my xeros). I find that for smaller plants if you don't bother about displaying them you can just hang them upside down so that water will run off the leaves easily and will not collect in the crown. This works well for rot sensitive species. Here's how I attach some of my plants. They are hot glued to a piece of bark with a wire hanger so it is easier to move them all at once.

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As for watering it depends on the weather. On bone dry days or cloudy days with no rain, a drenching down is fine, at most twice a day. If on heavily rainy days stop the watering altogether and let the breeze or light sun dry them off naturally. FYI I do hang them among my Neps and bromeliads. You can place the xeric (arid/silver leafed) species in full sun and the green ones under shade or indirect sunlight. So far the rain or sun has never caused any casualties to my collection (touch wood :biggrin:).

Here's my first xero, gotten from a relative's house sometime back.

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5272/xerospmp1.jpg

Alvin.

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Hi Ken,

Just sharing some pictures of my tills setup to give you ideas on how you can display them. They do well together with my lycopodiums, ant plants, staghorn fern, Nepenthes and monstera delicosa. Follow funkychips advise on the cultivation of these plants and you should not have problems with them.

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Wow David, your place has changed a lot since my last visit. Your plants look very healthy. My salute to you for growing them so well indoor.

Funkychip, you are creative with many methods at hand. Hope to see more photos of your work soon....:1thumbup: if you don't mind posting them. Give your xero more sun and fert. to get pinkish blush at the centre of the cup. It'll grow to a compact curly mass of a ball.

Nautilus, nice set up you have there!. I see plenty of room there....hehehehe. The most outstanding ones are the statue with a juncea sitting on top. I like that!

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Don't know whether I've posted these photos before ?!? But I'll put up some pictures of my 'work' as an inspiration to you guys.......

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