KIDS WEEK at Family Flowers MAR 11-15 Family Flowers KIDS WEEK Plant Feature: AIR PLANTS (thats right, no soil - just AIR!) Scientific Name: Tillandsia Lighting: Bright, but not direct sunlight. A south, east or west window is perfect Watering: Mist with water until saturated 2-4x a week. If the leaves start to curl under, the plant is likely gasping for water. Submerge it overnight in the kitchen sink and it will come back. Support: Glue tillandsias to cork, coral, stone, or driftwood. You can glue your tillandsia directly to the surface with a strong adhesive, or you can wire the plant to the base. Dont cover the base of the plant with moss or it may rot. Tillandsia can be grown on almost any imaginable decorative mount, including shells, rocks, slate, driftwood, etc. Group them in decorative clumps for maximum effect. Tillandsia are naturally epiphytic air plants that grow by clinging to trees and extracting excess moisture from the air. Once rare, tillandsia are now common in garden centers. Tillandsias reproduce by putting out offsets, or pups, from the base of the mother plant. When the pups are half the size of the mother, they can be divided and mounted on their own.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:00:01 +0000