A dwarf Agave with thick, very wide leaves that are narrower at the base, widening towards the tips and almost rounded on the ends with a long terminal spine. The leaf margins are deeply scalloped and bear moderate spines. This small form rarely exceeds 5 or so inches across in a very compact rosette. This clone has pale medio-picta type variegation.  Native to the desert interior of Oaxaca and Chiapas states of Southwestern Mexico in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Grows easy in full to part sun. Overwatering can cause the leaf tips to split.

A mound forming miniature lithophytic or terrestrial species from Bolivia and Argentina. Formerly known as Abromeitiella lorentziana, the plant is a mounding species which forms many ‘heads’, each about two inches across. The leaves are stiff and thickly succulent, acutely triangular and very sharply pointed. Normally green in cultivation, it may blush a gray to rusty red in full sun. The flower is without a scape and is deep green. Easy to grow in well-drained soil in bright light to full sun.

THIS PLANT IS ON C.I.T.E.S. AND CANNOT BE EXPORTED

Drynaria quercifolia ‘Variegated Oak-Leaf Fern’ - Drynaria are called ‘oak-leaf’ ferns because of their oak-leaf shaped, dry and stiff shield or basket fronds at the base of the foliage fronds which serve a multi purpose of protecting the creeping rhizomes and catching moisture and leaf litter which decompose to feed the fern. The foliage fronds are evergreen in this species and are quite showy, up to 30 inches long or longer, deeply lobbed with a glossy green appearance.

This form also has beautiful white variegation on the fronds making it one of the most striking of all variegated ferns. Variegation in ferns is quite unusual and often disappointingly pale or vague. This is certainly an exception. A choice collector item.

A very nice Dyckia hybrid from Thailand by Sasatorn Somwatee. A tight growing rosette maturing at 12 to 14 inches across.  The leaves are wide, recurving, olive -green, and heavily scurfed with white trichomes and edged with large, retrorse, orange/white spines. Not a common plant in collections in the USA.

Also known as the Mistletoe Fig, this fascinating shrub or tree has been known to grow both as an epiphyte and a terrestrial. Their unique deltoid foliage gives this species a lot of character as well as the small figs that fill in the spaces, so to speak, between the branches. Not particularly fussy but can be a little slow and it seems to appreciate a wide range of light conditions. This particular clone has much larger foliage and is still a bit obscure in comparison to the rather common normal clone.

A terrestrial bromeliad from Xichu ,Guanajuato Mexico. Stiff green leaves with heavy white scurf. When grown in full sun the spines turn purple red. Matures at 12 -14 inches across. Grows best in bright light to full sun.

A unique miniature Neoregelia by Devonshire from New Zealand is a cultivar of (Exotica Misty Pink x Tiger Cub) x Ritzy Tiger. The color is gold with a hint of green and the leaves have distinct longitudinal lines of red, and red marbled cross-bands. The plant needs bright filtered light for its best color. Its stoloniferous habit makes it a good candidate for a hanging basket.

*VIPP plants are Offsets

An impressive hybrid of Tillandsia fasciculata x ionantha by Mark Dimmitt. 

A beautiful hybrid of Tillandsia fasciculata 'Hondurensis' x ehlersiana by Bob Spivey. At maturity this bulbous beauty produces a pastel pink erect inflorescence.

*Blooming photos by Bob Spivey

An Australian hybrid of (concolor x ionantha) by Margaret Paterson. A robust plant with many stiff, pointed leaves in an 8 to 10 inch rosette. The leaf color is light green with a dusting of silvery trichomes. There is no color blush at anthesis in spite of the ionantha parentage, but rather it produces a very short but very full and branchy inflorescence with red bracts and bluish-purple flowers.

A choice, easy to cultivate plant. 

(albida x funckiana)

*Blooming photo from Bill Timm

A nice hybrid of apparently (pseudobaileyi x intermedia) by an unknown hybridizer and registered by Bill Timm. Larger than either parent, it grows to about 18 inches tall. The leaves are terete, green and slightly silvery and the base is bulbous. The inflorescence is most like that of pseudobaileyi, erect, stiff, laxly branched and pink with silver trichomes.