Bromeliad Hybrids 'For my own satisfaction' book 1 Neoregelias Large format, paper bound, 210 x 295mm, 100 pages with 620 color photos, © 2010 Bill & Margaret Paterson. This beautiful book is valuable not only for it's beautiful pictures, but also because it documents the prolific hybridizing work of Margaret over more than 30 years. A handy index lists plants by grex, pollen and seed parent, date and contains notes on naming, and other info. A valuable tool for hybridizers and hobbyists alike. You may be surprised to find some of Margaret's hybrids in your collection that you did not know you had! Imported from Australia.

An interesting little shrub-like, caudiciform tree from Oaxaca, Mexico with a thickly swollen trunk and tan to reddish peeling bark. The dense branches have small obovate, deciduous leaves and bear tiny, aromatic fruits. Great for bonsai work. The leaves may turn bright colors if exposed to cool temps in the fall of the year.

A marginated sport of Canistrum triangulare that occurred at Olive Branch nursery in Brisbane Australia. It grows to 12 inches high and 10 inches across. It is a dense rosette of narrow leaves. Offsets occur before anthesis. It grows best in a hanging pot. 

Our slabs are flat and vary in size from about 6 inches to over 12 inches wide and 12 to 30 inches long. Thickness varies from about a half inch to two inches with the majority being in between those numbers.

To get an idea of size to weight, you can figure roughly a square foot per pound, rarely under that, usually over. This material is widely touted to be the best and most durable substrate for mounting epiphytic plants; resisting rot and pests and lasting for many years under greenhouse conditions. The upper surface is rough and craggy and the underside, harder and fairly smooth. Great for use in terrariums or cages and useful as a decorative background to display jewelry or other objects.

This product is harvested sustainably in Portugal from Quercus suber, the cork oak, and it’s main use is for bottle stoppers and shoe soles. This is a completely natural product. Easily broken into any size needed and can be ‘drilled’ with an awl or ice pick.

 Quantity is sold by the pound.

A dwarf species that comes from limestone cliffs in the north of Thailand. It has broad leaves with somewhat wavy margins, in a rather spreading rosette rarely over 12 inches tall. The blooms are very large, cluster of white flowers with narrow petals and long anthers.

Stephen Hoppin has a way with hybrids and this is no exception.  A cultivar of ‘Dennis Cathcart’ x 'Elaine' having 10+ medium wide long lanceolate leaves forming a medium plant to 24″ in diameter with an open full round shape.  The brown-green leaves are heavily overlaid with silvery-grey, cascading rippling cross-banding.  The undersides of the leaves are covered in a medium dense silver white scurf.

This Ed Edmiston hybrid, a cultivar of 'Double Fudge' x 'Cosmic Storm,' matures to an extra large flat rosette of 24-inches in diameter.  The open conformation of thick crenulated leaves curving upwards in dark salmon pigmentation in good light with tide-like silver-scurf has variably-wide cross-banding, some well-defined, but others smudged.

A plant from Carole Richtmyer is a cultivar of ‘Witches Brew’ x ‘Rita Padden’.  A large grower to about 18 inches across, with many leaves in an upright rosette.  The leaves have slightly undulating margins and are chartreuse in color with mottled green banding.  The center of the newer growth is pink, but this fades with age as the plant grows.

 

Drimiopsis maculata is an evergreen geophyte found on forest floors and shaded stream banks in eastern southern Africa. Leaves are deeply lobed on slender banded petioles, with dark green spots and wavy margins. Flowers are in a small compact inflorescence. The buds are white and the flowers grey green. This plant flowers between September and April. Grow the bulbs in a well drained, but organic rich medium and keep it moist during the summer growing season. It does fine with year-round watering. The species is winter deciduous and can take light frost, but not a hard freeze. Plant in light shade to part sun. Freckles on leaves will be more colorful in summer.