@Kaktus, I have to share this here, this really makes me smile every time I see this post of your beautiful adenium:

Kaktus said:The beach was Covid closed today, so she has to try her new bikinis at home

Can't wait to see updates when she blooms!

My little air plant got its first bloom




Steve

Oh wow! That is beautiful! It is the first time I've seen this type of bloom. I used to have a few air plants. I only have one left and it is not blooming.

That is some exquisite beauty right there, all the color and texture and form in that thing.

I have a big clump but none have ever bloomed.

The clump started with 3 rosettes about 5 years ago.

Wowwwwwww

thanks everyone, today the second flower opened evolution is amazing , makes you think what type pollinator are they trying to attract one with good aesthetic taste thats for sure
Steve

Wow.. I am not aware that tillandsia can flower, and it's a very nice color too.

@Baja, you grow them with soil, will that make them grew any root? I thought they do not need any media, just need to spray some water from time to time?

They are not in the soil, they're nestled on top of the top dressing (chunky pumice). No roots. They enjoy the same watering schedule as the Fockea, which is a few squirts of water twice a week. The location was chosen based on that.

There's some irony in an epiphyte being compatible with a geophyte, care-wise.

Kaktus said:Wow.. I am not aware that tillandsia can flower, and it's a very nice color too.

@Baja, you grow them with soil, will that make them grew any root? I thought they do not need any media, just need to spray some water from time to time?

Yea they bloom. SO COOL!!! They die once they bloom though, as they are monocarpic. Usually, they make lots of babies before it though.. It takes a long time for them to die off so sometimes after it blooms it will produce more babies.

I have one of these too, T. ionantha.

In 2013 I stuck it between these Dracaena trunks:


The last time it bloomed was in March of this year. I'm terrible at catching the bloom in a more showy state.


It has some roots that hold onto the trunk. I douse it when I'm watering the soil for the tree, 3-4x per week, and spritz it with a squirt bottle impulsively when I think about it. This pic is from 2016, it was in the mood to make several roots where I could take a pic.


Tiny drawers & little boxes.



My husband made this case. The front has glass in it & the whole front opens on hinges.


Lamp that I filled with seashells


Found coquina shells


Misc small unusual found shells


Some larger shells, mostly found, a couple were purchased.



Some shell jewelry & original watercolors purchased @ beaches, a sand dollar dipped in gold.


A couple of my bigger finds.



Wood frame onto which I glued shells. I also made initials for my kids & niece that year. Put quite a dent in my coquinas & venus clams.


Canning jar solar lantern. Looks really cool when charged up.

Awww... The shells remind me of our "dry aquarium" growing up.

I have a "Shell" wall clock I purchased while on vacation.

And these are my collections, some are purchased and some also collected @ the beach.
There was an old man set-up a temporary table at the beach and selling seashells, I always make sure that I buy something from him every year when I went to the beach, heard he had passed away like 5 to 8 years ago. I may had supported him financially, but I somehow indirectly speedup the extinction of certain species, esp. Nautilus





Identified this "obesa" when taking shell pictures, will grow this for the time being until I found my real Obesa.

I have a shell collection thats really old...

sedumzz said:I have a shell collection thats really old...

TJOE, I love the urchins posing as Euphorbias!! I have a bunch of those urchins too... wonder where I put 'em? I also have a snowman made out of 3 urchins, wearing a tiny straw hat with little seashells for buttons.

Alex, I've had some of my shells for almost 50 yrs, most them were not in the pics. Never kept one with a live critter in it except once by accident, a marine hermit crab.

Watched this Green June Beetle bumble around the backyard earlier. 🪲🥴

Very cool bug pics!

Plumeria flowers on the patio have started opening...

Oh wow that is a beautiful orangey/peach color! It will be a nice bouquet once all the blooms open!

A bit of a bouquet effect here...

still a little messy but lots of good things happening in that corner. A pretty wide range of color too, from almost red to almost white.

It is definitely a beauty