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I have a friend in San Diego who is always trying to get me to widen my plant horizon by sending be different plants. Here is a cute Orchid that can hang right on the side of your pot. It is very small, and I don't remember the name of it.
I don't have any good pictures of them, but he has also sent me several Tillandsias (air plants) that can hang on Hoyas as well. There are three somewhere in this photo I think.
They maybe under the white wire shelf. They are also kind of neat, and require only minimal care, and have already flowered for me. Tillandsias are the hot plant of the moment being in Martha Stewart and other magazines. People are decorating their houses with them. Anyhow it is a little bit off topic, but occasionally I have to try something a little different.
Cute Orchid Doug...I have a few small mounted ones.
Tillandsias are great, I stick them on the walls and the palm trees. I once saw some photos where someone had made a long mesh wire tube and grown them on that attached by wire..very cool
Doug: You have a wonderful growing area ... beautiful, healthy plants! That little (orchid) beauty in your photo looks really familiar ... I know I've seen it before and will have to rack my ole' brain to see if I can remember the name!
I have a few miniature Cattleya type orchids that I've purchased online from Marble Branch Farms. I've ordered from them a few times now and love their orchids, they ship wonderfully healthy plants and always include a bonus plant with the orders. One of mine I rec'd in April just bloomed for the first time this week. The name is Broughtonia sanguinea (Spalsh Petal Form) and it bloomed a pale white/yellow instead of the white with deep pink splashes. I e-mailed Mark, one of the owners and he said my plant had good form and I should hang onto it because the pale yellow is rare.
This is the sequence when it was in bud and the first bloom and then when the bloom was completely opened:
I got another order this week and rec'd a little plant in bloom with the pink splashed petals but the blooms wilted in the heat. It has some buds though so I will take pic's when they open.
I don't grow Tillandsia's but thought about it a few years ago when I was googling and found some photo's ... some of them have really beautiful blooms!
I love that little Orchid! I can see that the plant world is only beginning to open for me. It is fun to occasionally play around with something a little different. It remains to be seen if the Tillandsias and little Orchids will come through the winter for me.
Orchids are dangerous Doug.......tens of thousands of different varieties and cultivars to grow and buy.....once you start .............you have been warned...:))
Thanks for the Warning Dom! It is one that I will definitely heed I really don't need another crazy obsession - UnfortunateIy because I have to go to work every day, I only have time for one obsession at a time
Name: Carol Noel Hawaii (near Hilo) It's all about choices.
Tillandsias are some of my favorites...and since they are air plants, I hang them in 'chains' from a bamboo pole between two trees. As long as they get a bit of rain every day or every other day, they are very happy. Here is T. cyanantha variegated form simply hanging rightside up by three plastic wires around it's base. This started out 4 years ago as one wee plant and now it's about the size of a basketball!!!! Others I have put on trees just nailing them on...wonderful plants.
Name: Laura Gardiner Manitoba, Canada You can't 'un-ring' a bell.
Saw baskets full of individual Tillandsias at Shelmerdine's. Just laying there! Some were blooming. Didn't know they had a bloom.. White ones, they were. Another companion for Hoya?
"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other."
- Chinese Proverb
Not a particularly attractive photo of the back of my house, but just to show how you can fix them to old branches and trees and they flourish with next to no care
Just noticed the one in the middle has fallen off somewhere..Ha
There are some really beautiful Tillandsia's on the market and it's easy to see why some folks get hooked on collecting them. We have a few native Tillandsia here in Florida but the ones I see regularly aren't all that attractive (to my eye anyway). These are too large for Hoya companion plants but I thought I'd share a couple of pictures.
Tillandsia recurvata (commonly called "Ball Moss") The first photo shows a clump in the Sugarberry tree in the backyard, second is a close up of the flower which is not really colorful, but still interesting:
Then we have Tillandsia utriculata (commonly called "Giant Air Plant") This was way high up in an oak tree but was frozen during our past two frigid winters.
Then .. there's the common Tillandsia usneoids (commonly called "Spanish Moss"). Here in the south it's quite common and you see it hanging/dripping from oaks, and many other trees. My neighbor pulls this out of their trees but I love the look of it dangling from the branches. Last year our Crape Myrtles were covered with spanish moss but my husband pulled it all off. I took this picture at Blue Springs State Park in January:
Many people don't like these Tillandsia's because they think they choke and kill the trees, which is a myth. Tillandsia's are epiphytes, only using the tree bark as an anchor, their nutrients come from rain, leaf litter etc.
Thanks Dom! The native Tillandsia's I see around here don't have the colorful, pretty blooms like some ... but they are interesting in their own way.
Just take a gander at some of these beauties: http://www.airplants4u.com/ It would be really easy to get hooked on collecting them! Aaah, if only I had more space ... or lived in the warm tropics where they could be grown outside year round!
.............you have been warned...:))
I really don't need another crazy obsession - UnfortunateIy because I have to go to work every day, I only have time for one obsession at a time 
