Our periodic Two - For - One Tillandsia Collections are a great way to start with Tillandsias and share with a friend! All plants in our collections are chosen for diverse variety and ease of culture. Plants are of types that can be mounted or kept bare root in baskets or even hung from a string.

Care consists of the basics: Good bright filtered light, good air circulation, watering when needed by wetting the entire plant and occasional fertilizing, with an 'orchid type' fertilizer. You will get two each of ten varieties, twenty plants in all, all labeled and ready to grow. Plants will be from about half mature to blooming and all of vigorous, easy varieties. This collection changes periodically so you may want to check back from time to time.

To learn more about the plants in the collection, we suggest that you go to the web page for each variety to see a photo and read more about the plant. This collection has a retail value of $130.00 if purchased individually, but you can have the entire collection for only $59.95!

This collection includes two each of the following plants:

106 Tillandsia aeranthos 'Major'

9254 Tillandsia schiedeana large form, Totolapan, Oaxaca, Mexico

221 Tillandsia ionantha v. vanhyningii

6995 Tillandsia 'Gildora'

274 Tillandsia paleacea

7274 Tillandsia 'Kay Jay'

6273 Tillandsia ixioides x bergeri

1042 Tillandsia 'Rosalia Mavrikas'

6295 Tillandsia x wilinskii

215 Tillandsia ionantha 'Guatemalan Select'

A Mexican plant with very stiff leaves in an open rosette of 6 to 8 inches. The leaves are yellowish, blushing reddish in strong light or full sun and it produces a shiny red to yellow-green, branched inflorescence with pink flowers. Easy to grow, preferring conditions on the bright and dry side. Can be suspended from a string or mounted on wood, cork, stone or other substrate. Suitable for dry terrarium use.

A giant form of concolor from Mexico with the same general characteristics as the typical form, but reaching nearly a foot across. A desert dweller with a restricted range, it can be seen growing on cacti and Acacia in the extremely harsh country near Cuicatlan, Oaxaca. Stiff yellowish-green foliage tints reddish in the sun, and a shiny multiple branched spike of yellow to red with pink flowers. An outstanding plant.

Note: It is suggested by the BSI that this is a natural hybrid of unknown parentage. I doubt that. The plants are abundant in habitat but of limited range and they vary little. I believe that this is just a large and attractive clone or possibly form of the species. The ‘normal’ form does not seem to occur within the range of ‘Cuicatlan‘.

This is an especially large and robust form of this species that came originally from Argentina. T. didisticha is one of the most sought Tillandsias for collections. A lovely medium sized plant usually to about 6 to 12 inches, this form can grow to about 16 inches across with a bloom spike of lovely pink to almost coral colored branches and white flowers. Stays in color for many months. Easy to grow, prefers bright conditions, on the dry side. Very cold tolerant to near freezing with no distress.

Found near Rio Grande, Bolivia, this form seems to have straighter leaves than the typical duratii. The inflorescence is simple but bears many very large purple flowers. The fragrance is strong and a single specimen can perfume an entire garden. Does not root as an adult, so it must be attached with glue or wires to a mount. Best results may come from suspending the plant from a string or wire and hanging it in a bright airy spot.

Easiest of all the fragrant Tillandsias to cultivate.

A real oddity. Showing characteristics of both parents, the influence of duratii is obviously stronger. A caulescent plant, with narrow, succulent silvery leaves like duratii, but leafier and more of a rosette shape like stricta.