Bromeliads - 16 Plant(s)
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Aechmea recurvata var. benrathii - Praia do Rosa
D23-15 Aechmea recurvata var. benrathii - Praia do Rosa
Zone 8b to 10 Native to Southeastern Brazil Grows to 8"h x 12"w
Wild Aechmea recurvata var. benrathii! On our trip to southern Brazil we found this variety growing in coastal areas, mainly amongst rocks and boulders. The tight, squatty rosettes seemed perfectly content in full sun and subject to constant breeze. We now know why this plant is tolerant of salt - while photographing it we could feel the spray of breaking waves. Maybe we too could adapt to such conditions if we had their view of the clear, blue water and crashing waves of the southern Atlantic Ocean. The image provided shows the vibrant pink coloration of bracts when the plant is in bloom, which generally occurs in early spring. After blooming the leaves return to a green color with reddish undertones.
Plant Notes
In Texas and other extremely hot and dry climates it is recommend to site this plant where it gets only short doses of direct sun. Part-sun in the morning with bright, dappled shade the rest of the day is best where temperature reach the triple digits regularly.
Link to this plant: Aechmea recurvata var. benrathii - Praia do Rosa (right-click to bookmark or copy link)
Agave x leopoldii 'Hammer Time'
Y07-78 Agave x leopoldii 'Hammer Time' - New!
Zone 8b to 10 Garden origin
Hammer Time agave! Can you make a good thing better? You bet you can. This variegated Agave x leopoldii proves it. This sport selected by Gary Hammer takes a favorite old cultivar and gives it a new dimension. The form of Agave x leopoldii, with its spiky leaves covered with numerous curling filifers is legendary, so imagine elongating the leaves slightly and adding a golden stripe down their edges and you will understand why so much excitement is being generated by Agave x leopoldii 'Hammer Time'.
Plant Notes
Link to this plant: Agave x leopoldii 'Hammer Time' (right-click to bookmark or copy link)
Aloe x 'Wunderkind'
Y11-54 Aloe x 'Wunderkind'
Zone 10 Garden origin
Wonder Child Aloe! This aloe hybrid was an introduction from the Huntington Botanical Garden's International Succulent Introduction (ISI) program in 2006. It was a selection made by Brian Kemble, curator of the Ruth Bancroft Garden. It is a small growing plant with highly textured green and white leaves that has the look and feel of a lizard's hide. The leaf margins are lined with long, white, papery looking teeth. Though it is truly an aloe it has enough reptile like qualities to make you look twice.
Plant Notes
Link to this plant: Aloe x 'Wunderkind' (right-click to bookmark or copy link)
Billbergia nutans
Y06-26 Billbergia nutans
Zone 8b to 10 Native to Brazil Grows to 15" h x 10" w
A winter bloomer! Every winter this plant has surprised us with exotic blossoms in striking color combinations. The royal-blue and chartreuse flowers hang with fiery red bracts, in a season when little else blooms. Even when temperatures dip as low as 17 degrees, it continues to bloom. We plant ours at the base of small shrubs to protect it from heavy winter frost and the hot summer sun.
Plant Notes
Link to this plant: Billbergia nutans (right-click to bookmark or copy link)
Dyckia choristaminea 'Frazzle Dazzle'
Y07-99 Dyckia choristaminea 'Frazzle Dazzle' - Sold Out!
Zone 8b to 10 Native to Brazil Grows to 6"h x 10"w
Spaghetti bowl Dyckia! This Dyckia is versatile and tough. The small mature size and non lethal spines makes it touchable, easily manageable and quite suitable for pot culture. Its tolerance to cold (temperatures down into the low teens for brief periods) also make it adaptable to being grown outdoors, in zone 8b south. Like most in the genus, it can tolerate periods of drought. But if a summer monsoon takes hold it will revel in the abundant moisture. A rosette of this clone is composed of numerous, spaghetti thin, 6" long leaves that are generally grey with plum undertones. The late spring, 10 " tall flower spikes are topped with large, fragrant, yellow flowers - adding another showy element to this easy to touch and love Dyckia.
Plant Notes
Dyckia choristaminea 'Frazzle Dazzle' is a new cultivar name for the plant we previously have offered as Dyckia choristaminea - Plum Colored Form.
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Link to this plant: Dyckia choristaminea 'Frazzle Dazzle' (right-click to bookmark or copy link)
Dyckia goiana
Y09-07 Dyckia goiana
Zone 8b to 10 Native to South America Grows to 8"h x 18"w
Large open rosette of green leaves which offset to form a clump. The flowers are produced in mid spring and are bright yellow. This species its best when used in the landscape or in the pot collection to contrast with species and hybrids that have chocolate-maroon colored leaves.
Plant Notes
Link to this plant: Dyckia goiana (right-click to bookmark or copy link)
Dyckia velascana
Y04-94 Dyckia velascana - Sold Out!
Zone 8a to 10 Native to Argentina, La Rioja Grows to N.A.
Silver starfish! This is possibly the most cold hardy Dyckia species. I say this because the plants from the area in Argentina where this species is native have proven to be quite cold hardy. Dyckias sold as La Rioja closely resemble this plant and they have been completely hardy to 18 degrees in a pot. Dyckia velascana has beautiful silver-gray starfish-like leaves that lay close to the ground. This habit is quite distinct from most other Dyckias with pineapple-like character.
Plant Notes
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Link to this plant: Dyckia velascana (right-click to bookmark or copy link)
Dyckia x 'Iron Spikes'
Y04-97 Dyckia x 'Iron Spikes' - Sold Out!
Zone 8b to 10 Garden origin
Iron Spikes dyckia! This plant was a selection we made from a batch of Dyckia velascana open pollinated seedlings. We suspect that the pollen parent was D. platyphylla but we did not spy on the hummingbird that made the cross, so we don’t know for sure. The plant has compact rosettes of stiff, spike-like leaves that are cola colored with silver castings on the top of the leaves and silver beneath. The leaf margins are spiny, but not recurved, so when you get poked, you can get away quickly and are not held and tortured. We have been impressed with it hardiness. We left it outside, exposed on tables this winter. It received no damage into the upper 20's while other similarly exposed Dyckia received moderate leaf damage. Ultimate hardiness is unknown, but it has great potential.
Plant Notes
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Link to this plant: Dyckia x 'Iron Spikes' (right-click to bookmark or copy link)
Dyckia x 'Olympiad'
Y09-06 Dyckia x 'Olympiad'
Zone 8b to 10 Garden origin Grows to 12"h x 24"w
The deep chocolate-maroon leaves with short white spines sets this hybrid apart. The dense compact rosettes and heavy blooming habit guarantees this one as a container plant for plant crazed collectors. The orange flowers appear at the ends of 2' tall spikes.
Plant Notes
Link to this plant: Dyckia x 'Olympiad' (right-click to bookmark or copy link)
Dyckia x 'Soda Straws'
Y11-52 Dyckia x 'Soda Straws' - New!
Zone 8b to 10 Garden origin Grows to 8"h x 32"w
Soda Straw Dyckia! This seedling spontaneously occurred amongst other plants in the nursery several years ago and, thanks to keen eyes, it was spotted and saved. It produces numerous thin, narrow leaves which are moderately soft and flexible and are lined with small non-lethal teeth. The leaves are cola colored and are about the size and length of your average soda straw, thus the name. Leaf color will vary with light intensity, being a soft cola color in bright shade to near wine red in more direct light. We do not know its exact heritage but believe D. choristimnea must be one of the primary parents due to its growth form and habit.
Plant Notes
Link to this plant: Dyckia x 'Soda Straws' (right-click to bookmark or copy link)
Dyckia x (platyphylla x manier-lapostollei)
Y11-48 Dyckia x (platyphylla x manier-lapostollei) - New!
Zone 9a to 10 Garden origin Grows to 10"h x 24"w
Spiny whirligigs! This hybrid came to us years ago from David Boudreaux of Louisiana. The plant, over time, develops into a mound of 10" to 12" symmetrical rosettes with leaves that are silver-grey in color. The way the leaves are arranged, with a slight curl downward at the leaf tips, makes each rosette seem to spin. Short recurved spines, spaced evenly along the leaf margins, intensify the illusionary spin evoking the analogy of an earthbound, spinny whirlygig.
Plant Notes
Link to this plant: Dyckia x (platyphylla x manier-lapostollei) (right-click to bookmark or copy link)
Hechtia caerulea
Y00-90 Hechtia caerulea
Zone 10 Native to Mexico Grows to 6"h x 12"w
Blue bromes! This terrestrial bromeliad is unique in two ways. Unlike most Hechtias it is spineless with soft flexible leaves covered in white wool and it has lavender-blue flowers. All other hectias we have grown have white flowers. Hechtias are the premier pot plant for they can take incredible sun, heat and drought.
Plant Notes
Link to this plant: Hechtia caerulea (right-click to bookmark or copy link)
Hechtia lundelliorum
T64-57 Hechtia lundelliorum
Zone 8b to 10 Native to Mexico Grows to 3'h x 3'w
Smooth flowing foliage! These bizarre epiphytes grow out of small crevices on sheer stone cliffs. The 3' long narrow spineless bright-green foliage cascades; at a distance resembling a frozen waterfall. Most effective when mounted on a stone wall, or cascading out of pots or baskets hanging along a porch, it is a sight to behold! Complete cold-hardiness unknown but in San Antonio, TX growing beneath live oaks several plants have survived temperatures in the mid-twenties, undamaged, for two years in a row. (Previously listed as Hechtia tillandsioides.)
Plant Notes
Link to this plant: Hechtia lundelliorum (right-click to bookmark or copy link)
Puya mirabilis
Y04-03 Puya mirabilis
Zone 8b to 10 Grows to 2'h x 3'w
Green comet! A fast growing terrestrial bromeliad with bright shiny-green leaves that are slightly prickly at their base. This rosette of whispy foliage recurves back giving the plant the look of a comet! The large, nodding flowers resemble species gladiolus and are a smart 'Martha Stewart' chartreuse. This species flowers in 3 to 4 years from seed, very quick for a Puya. Cold hardiness tested to north Gainesville, Florida. Native to South America. We were offering this plant as Puya alpestris but have had it identified as Puya mirabilis.
Plant Notes
Link to this plant: Puya mirabilis (right-click to bookmark or copy link)
Puya x (laxa x tuberosa)
Y05-55 Puya x (laxa x tuberosa)
Zone 9a to 10 Garden origin
Here we are offering seedlings of a Puya cross between Puya laxa x Puya tuberosa made by Jon Lindstrom of the University of Arkansas. The plants are showing intermediate qualities of both parents at this point but how these babies will ultimately grow and develop is anyone's guess. Take part in the experiment and add one to your bromeliad collection.
Plant Notes
Link to this plant: Puya x (laxa x tuberosa) (right-click to bookmark or copy link)
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Yucca Do Planting Guide
Full Sun
Partial Sun
Shade
Dry - 10-30" per year
Average - 30-50" per year
Moist - 50+" per year
Butterfly
Hummingbird
Ideal for Potting
