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.

Check out our glossy ceramic pumpkin planter in cinnamon-orange, perfect for your favorite small tillandsia! Planter measure 4" W x 3" H and includes a drain hole. 

Check out our glossy white ceramic pumpkin planter, perfect for your favorite small tillandsia! Planter measure 4" W x 3" H and includes a drain hole. 

Our virgin cork 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 as it is non-toxic, 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.

This is a 2007 cultivar of ‘Durrell’ x ‘San Juan’ by Stephen Hoppin.  The shape is a loose rosette up to 10 inches tall and 24 inches across with shiny green leaves that are wavy with serrated edges.  The leaves have an olive green color that has a hint of bronze along the edge and slight scurfing on the underside of the leaves.

*VIPP plants are Offsets

This hybrid of 'Yara' x 'Bag of Tricks' by Stephen Hoppin has 12+ lanceolate leaves forming a small plant 6" to 7" in diameter with a full round shape.  The leaves are pink-red in color with undertones of green bands covered with an even silver-white dusting of trichomes.  The plant matures out to have a pattern more or less typical of Cryptanthus lacerdae.  The leaves recurve downwards from the center of the plant with tips twisting slightly up, while the undersides of the leaves are covered in a medium dense amount of silver-white trichomes with some leaf impressions.  This Cryptanthus really does live up to its name!

*VIPP plants are Offsets

The former Abromeitiella brevifolia, a name still used by many, especially in the succulent world. An interesting, miniature terrestrial from Bolivia and Argentina, smallest of the genus, with neat, compact rosettes about the diameter of a U.S. nickel, with short, succulent, silvery leaves ending in a sharp spine.

In nature it grows on steep hillsides or rock faces in cool, arid regions, forming mounds of tens of thousands of plants. Adapts well to pot culture, forming pillow-like clusters. Likes plenty of water in warm weather, but prefers to be allowed to dry thoroughly after watering.

An African bulb, also called the Giant Squill, from tropical and dry southern Africa. Nice fat bulbs showing above ground produce whorls of lanceolate leaves bearing many dark spots. The flowers are white, bell shaped and clustered, borne on a long scape. Good for landscape in zone 10 and above but makes a nice pot plant or terrarium plant too.

Burgundy black recurving leaves with large white spines. Matures at 12-14 inches across. Grows best in bright light to full sun. Dyckias like to be watered regularly during the dry times of the year.

A beautiful small-growing hybrid of (chloristaminea x marnier-lapostolle). The leaves are moderately stiff, silvery over reddish-purple with large, soft spines, recurving in smallish rosettes to barely 6 inches across. (The plants in the photos are full grown). A clustering plant that will form a nice specimen in a 4 or 5 inch pot in time.

A Q-Dyckia hybrid. Silver grey recurving leaves with large spines. Grows to 10 inches across. Prefers to grow in bright light to full sun. Needs to be watered more often when growing in the full sun.