What to Do - Open Garden with Bromeliad Collection
Presenter: Phil Dudman
Episode: #16 04/07/08
You should have a look at the garden Phil visits it is wall-to-wall Bromeliads in the ground, pots and hanging tied into trees hugging shade out in the sun they are everywhere. Now my wife thinks my collection is out of control but this takes the cake. The owner must be quite obsessed let’s go meet her!
Interview with Helen Ward:
Phil: Helen I’m totally flabbergasted; you must have been collecting for years?
Helen: I have been collecting for 6 years Phil.
Phil: Blimey only six years. What is it that you love about Broms so much?
Helen: mainly because they grow for me, I’m not a gardener; they are so easily to grow, you have got your beautiful Alcanterias, your Guzmanias to your tiny little Talanzias. They are just so beautiful you get all those lovely textures and colours in the foliage and flowers as well.
Phil: So which one is your favourite? Guzmania’s?
Helen: Guzmania’s, definitely Guzmania’s. You could take that inside with its huge open flowers and put it in a nice pot and they will last for months
Phil: and then you get your ‘pups’ and things and you have got them for ever
Helen: off course you do, that’s why I can expand my garden.
Botanical Names and Different Types of Guzmania and Neoregelia:
Guzmania
‘Kapoho Flame’
‘Symphony’
insignus
‘Minnie Belle’
Whittmackii
Neoregelia
johannis
French cruenta
concentrica var. plutonis
Neoregelia is all about the foliage such diversity, colours, stripes, they thrive in the cooler months, but also can handle a lot of sun, just put them in a small pot and allow them to climatize.
You may have seen the Aechmea blanchetiana before, it’s one of those few Bromeliads that loves full sun which makes them take incredibly rich golden colour they make such a magnificent statement.
If you want to see Helen’s wonderful collection, it is called Arcadia gardens and it’s open tomorrow as part of Australia’s Open Garden Scheme.
Arcadia gardens
1 Otway Place
Oxenford
Open: 5th August 2007
Between 10am and 4.30pm
Looking for more ideas of what to do in your Qld garden right now then make sure you grab the latest issue of the Garden Guru Newspaper. Judy looks at the best herbs for the winter/spring garden, Neville visits a highly productive permaculture garden and Phil has got a few handy solutions for some typical Qld gardening problems. You can get your copy at Mitre 10 stores and selected garden centres.
Episode: #16 04/07/08
You should have a look at the garden Phil visits it is wall-to-wall Bromeliads in the ground, pots and hanging tied into trees hugging shade out in the sun they are everywhere. Now my wife thinks my collection is out of control but this takes the cake. The owner must be quite obsessed let’s go meet her!
Interview with Helen Ward:
Phil: Helen I’m totally flabbergasted; you must have been collecting for years?
Helen: I have been collecting for 6 years Phil.
Phil: Blimey only six years. What is it that you love about Broms so much?
Helen: mainly because they grow for me, I’m not a gardener; they are so easily to grow, you have got your beautiful Alcanterias, your Guzmanias to your tiny little Talanzias. They are just so beautiful you get all those lovely textures and colours in the foliage and flowers as well.
Phil: So which one is your favourite? Guzmania’s?
Helen: Guzmania’s, definitely Guzmania’s. You could take that inside with its huge open flowers and put it in a nice pot and they will last for months
Phil: and then you get your ‘pups’ and things and you have got them for ever
Helen: off course you do, that’s why I can expand my garden.
Botanical Names and Different Types of Guzmania and Neoregelia:
Guzmania
‘Kapoho Flame’
‘Symphony’
insignus
‘Minnie Belle’
Whittmackii
Neoregelia
johannis
French cruenta
concentrica var. plutonis
Neoregelia is all about the foliage such diversity, colours, stripes, they thrive in the cooler months, but also can handle a lot of sun, just put them in a small pot and allow them to climatize.
You may have seen the Aechmea blanchetiana before, it’s one of those few Bromeliads that loves full sun which makes them take incredibly rich golden colour they make such a magnificent statement.
If you want to see Helen’s wonderful collection, it is called Arcadia gardens and it’s open tomorrow as part of Australia’s Open Garden Scheme.
Arcadia gardens
1 Otway Place
Oxenford
Open: 5th August 2007
Between 10am and 4.30pm
Looking for more ideas of what to do in your Qld garden right now then make sure you grab the latest issue of the Garden Guru Newspaper. Judy looks at the best herbs for the winter/spring garden, Neville visits a highly productive permaculture garden and Phil has got a few handy solutions for some typical Qld gardening problems. You can get your copy at Mitre 10 stores and selected garden centres.
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