World Bromeliad Conference 2018 San Diego May 29 - June 3
Lars/J. Robert Scott
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Comments (37)Thank you all, for your continued kind words. Campanula, yes, exactly. Setting the garden (and home) within the larger context is always the tricky thing, right? Like, on one hand you want to have your way over the landscape, to tame it and mold it into more of what you like. But on the other hand, the cues really need to come from what's already around you otherwise it's either going to be a ton or work to fight nature, and/or it won't even look right when you're done. So the rock theme really plays well here. GreenHearted, that's a great question. I have done the foundation differently on different stone projects here. I'm not an expert on this, but none of my walls have fallen down yet! (With the older ones being over 10 years old.) You are quite right, a dry-stacked wall is an inherently flexible structure and is very forgiving of expansion and contraction of the ground. On this wall, I dug/scraped down to the subsoil layer, which is a very compacted, concrete-like substance. I didn't put down gravel or anything, mostly because the very idea of that pushed the project into the realm of unrealistic for my diy self. Stonework does have a tendency to slowly sink into the ground. Rocks that used to be standing above grade are now below the level of the grass. I'm not sure how much a gravel foundation would help that. One of my walls has a gravel foundation and it hasn't behaved any differently than the others as far as I can tell. Not sure if that answer helps or not! :)...See MoreIf a conference on Anthurium, Philodendron and aroids was held?
Comments (1)Sorry, I got tongue tangled on this post. The IAS show is in the fall, this one could possibly be in the spring....See MoreSouthern California Roll Call!!!
Comments (115)I have two sides going so far--lots of seedlings going in the areas that look bare. side 1 (this was the 1st side I did back in March): And this is side 2 (I had a bunch of herbs and potatoes but decided to go above ground with those (I just threw together the wood planters from scraps we had laying around-now ISO soil): I have corn, greens, beans, and a few other sprouts coming up--I threw the straw down (from when I cleared our side yard in May) to give them a bit of shade and extra water---this side gets like 6 hours of INTENSE sun this time of year (especially this year). I have some raspberries to plant in the back corner on side 2--I'd love to have a little berry patch. But through research I've found very few varieties grow in a 10a zone (this part is all new to me) Those retaining wall planters are my next big project but the dirt is so compacted I can't even dig---but I'm thinking of just top filling it after I pull everything...just can bring myself to get rid of all my aloe and succulents that grow up in the shade. I'd love to do something vertical... (Side 1) (Side 2) This is the first year I'm doing this---I pulled the existing shrubs (2 10 year old hibiscus, a 10 year old rosemary, among others) all by hand and turned the soil myself---my husband's around to help but it's mostly a project I've taken on myself. I'd like to get a bit more organized as far as what grows where and when, more vertical growth, etc...one thing at a time I suppose. I've shown you mine--who's showing theirs? (I apologize for any typos, I didn't proofread this)...See Moredescribing the type of gardening in San Diego
Comments (15)Poway (zone 21) and Ramona (zone 20) are both inland and will be hotter in the summer and colder in the winter than near the coast. The ground won't freeze, but this past winter we had the coldest weather in 70 years and many areas got down to 15 degrees for several nights in a row - it was a disaster for many tender plants, and local nurseries and wholesale growers lost millions of dollars. However, this is highly unusual. Soil vary dramatically from area to area, even within the same piece of property, so once you buy your new place you'll need to study what you have. We had rain yesterday - for the first time in months! Here in Vista we got 2.7" of rain in one day - bringing our total rainfall since Jan. 1st to a whopping 7". Many parts of the county have had far less rain. My plants are looking sooooooo happy today, with their leaves washed off and their stems all plumped up. Plants from all parts of the globe with a Mediterranean climate do great here, so you can easily grow plants from the Mediterranean basin, South Africa (including a vast array of effortless bulbs like watsonia, babiana, freesia, etc.), coastal Chile, much of Australia and New Zealand. You're going to have too much fun! I've got plants from all over the world in my garden, and I've grouped them according to their watering needs. Mine is a low-water garden throughout (except for one very small area), and we'll soon start planting trees which will be watered with "gray water" from our laundry, showers and bathroom sinks. There's some interesting new articles and books lately about water harvesting, ways to save/store the rainwater that might otherwise go down the drain. You might want to think about that when you plan your new garden. One downside to Ramona - it can be a long drive to downtown San Diego. Poway is next to a major highway and easier to get to/from. Ramona sometimes gets some snow in the winter, tho not enough to use a shovel for, I don't think. *grin*...See More
Lars
5 years agoI'm not exactly sure what the hot items this year are, but here are some photos from the conference show and sale:
Aechmea table
Billbergia table
More from the Billbergia table
Centerpiece with tillandsia and guzmania plus winning neoregelia
Another aechmea and assorted others.
Tillandsia in grouping.
Staging.
I think this is a sincoraea, but I'm not sure.
If you are here Carol, I will post more. Not too many stories to tell this with part of the trip, except that we got there too late on Thursday for anything and missed the first tour. However, we went back on Friday for the sale, which is when I took these photos (and many more) and when I bought a few bromeliads for myself. I think I bought five in all, but the bill was $150, and so I decided to stop there. Friday afternoon we went to Balboa Park, and I have a lot of photos from that as well.
Lars
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoI was putting the photos in order of how they are in my folder; here are some more. I'll post more later:
Neoregelia table
Winning Neoregelia
This is all that I have edited for now. I did take photos of the ones I bought, and I'll post photos of those later. Some of the bromeliads were place so high that I could not look down on them with my camera.
There are vriesea photos that I have not edited yet.
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5 years agoLars
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoOkay, here are photos of what I bought:
Aechmea Orlandiana Pink
Aechmea Friederike variegated
Aechmea Zebrina Pink
Orthophytum lemei AS721
I think this is the same plant at the show.
Orthophytum Sucrey X Grukenii
Close-up of top, which has fallen over.
Vriesea Fosteriana Red Chestnut.
I've not yet potted the vriesea or the Orlandia, but will do that this afternoon. I have misted them with water, however, and they look fine.
I'm not sure about the Orthphytum. I'd never bought these before, and they looked different and were less expensive, and so I decided to go ahead and buy them. The Sucrey looks like it will give me plenty of new plants, but I'm not sure about the Lemei. It is supposed to make pups on the side but did not have any. Also, the Friederike did not have a pup, but I hope it will make one eventually. I have similar Aechmea, but not that exact one. There were Neoregelia that I wanted to buy, but they cost from $150 to $300, and so I skipped them.
I also bought four orchids (three epidendrums, which do very well here outdoors) at a wholesale orchid nursery in Vista on the way back. The owner is a friend of the friend I went to San Diego with.
Lars
5 years agoHere are some photos from House #2 in Mission Hills, taken on Saturday:
One of the owners of the house is a landscape architect, and I like what he did with the back yard, but his placement of one of the agaves in the front yard did not leave enough room for it to grow, as it is a Furcraea Macdougalii (and he knew the name of it) that will get huge in just a few years. He thought it would develop a "trunk", but that takes almost 20 years and still does not add enough height for the space where he put it. If he leaves it where he put it, he will have to cut the leaves back drastically, which I think would be very unattractive.
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