avane ..very nice photo's

Beautiful arrangement on the plants and pics are primo!

We do like good photos here on the GW,and your's are very nice to see. Excellent arrangements of plants and complimentary backgrounds. Wet plants look their best in photos,and anytime you have some more to show,we will be glad to see them.
Bob

Wow...you have a wonderful garden :^)
South Africa is one of the best place to visit on earth.
Last year, I visited Joberg and beyonds also Cape Town, great place.
But I saw only few Bromeliads overthere, but Aloe !

Me with a really huge Fan-shaped Aloe (Aloe plicatilis)
at Harold Porter National Botanical Garden near the Cape.

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What Bob said. I like your palms, too.

Nice pictures, avane. It's always nice to extend out little circle into another part of the world!

Thanks guys for the compliments, but my pictures realy look better usually, like this one of my A orlandiana with the sunlight from behind.
Catkim, I'm going to post another picture just for you!
Lisa, I am just waiting for winter to get over and my Neos start flowering, then I am going to use ALL the tips on hybridizing that you talked about the past couple of months. Like HDD I printed everything and now I have enough confidence to start doing my thing. I am sure nobody in SA has done that yet!!

Here's A orlandiana
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Very nice! Great plants, great pictures.

Catkim, I got about 60 diffirent palms in my garden as well. The huge ones that you can see in front of my house, I planted about 17 years ago when they were still babies.

And while you guys now really can see where I live, you might as well call me by my name : Japie. I do a bit of Landscaping because I can live, eat, sleep, breath, dream PLANTS - especially all things tropical. And that is where my name avane come from. If I work, I call myself Adam van Eden (Afrikaans for Adam from the garden of Eden). That's also why the name of this photo is Eden. Adam's Eden.
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Now thats art !!! :)

That looks like eden to me! Fantastic. Thanks for sharing your photos with us.

WOW!
In your 2 Brom pictures almost dead center; what is the neon pink one and what is the almost all white one?

Minibim, the almost white one in the 2nd picture is N Bailey's Choice. grown in good light it gets this nice pinkish tone but now with winter coming and less light, the pink disappears to almost white.
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The 1st picture - the centre one which appears more red on the picture, but in real life IS more pink (very difficult to photograph, is N Scarlet Sharlotte:
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If you talking about the one more to the right in front, it's N Big Pink. Now THAT is a difficult one to capture the real colours on a picture. It is still very young (you will love it, HDD)and I am almost holding my breath to see what is does when showtime comes! I cannot find anything about that plant anywhere on the Internet:
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(hehe) It's a plant by Odean Head and he called it 'Pinkie' and your right avane I love the plant.. I love the upright growth habit alot

Avane, beautiful pics! Can I ask, first pic, front row, centre - who is that?

Neo Sunday Best, sutto. And it's giving me a first pup!
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HDD, have you got a picture of a mature Pinkie perhaps? How big does it get?

Avane, do you think this could be the same? I would love to have a name for it.
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I did try to just put up a link but I am still learning the pic thing too.

Sutto, to me it looks much the same plant. Yours have a much fuller rosetteof leaves and also more colour. But that I think you have a much better climate than I have. The weather here in Cape Town is very variable. Look at the FCBS site what it looks like there and I am sure you will agre that yours also might be Sunday Best. Sorry, I don't know yet how to include this nice 'usefull link' thing.

Avane, Sunday Best will do me just fine. Thanks for that.

3/4 grown max width and height 14 inches. I hope the color shows up right in this photo..some plants are more beautiful in person
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That is gorgeous HDD, its going on my wish list.

WOW
Barb

Hi Japie,
Beautiful pics,...and your home certainly IS 'Eden'.
I once entertained a visitor to my company's Buffalo NY office that was from Cape Town,and it was a most enjoyable visit.That was way back in the 1970's tho.
My curiosity makes me ask,do you obtain your bromeliads in Cape Town,or do you mail-order them ?
Love that pic of Ae.'Orlandiana'.
Regards,Bob

Great photos! Which is that neo looking brom below A orlandiana?

Bob, I never mail-ordered bromeliads internationaly and the selection of broms available at our local nurseries is a sad case. Recently I found out about a lady living in East London - about 600 km from Cape Town - who is mad about them. She imports them. For herself and a spare 1 or 2 to sell to pay for her hoby. She buys from Michaels and TopiFlora and other places. I get them from her - mail-order. So, a lot of my plants come from Michael. Lke the one you asked about, Mario. N punctatissima Yellow. That guy likes a lot of sun to bring out the yellow colour. Thats why I include an old photo, just after I received it. It is slowly loosing colour but I moved it away from A orlandiana and coming summer it should colour up very nice. Being so far south here in Cape Town, the movement of the sun causes a lot of stuff to be in the shade that used to get partial sun and there are very few that I plant in full summer sun as the intensity in midsummer is a killer. I move my plants around quite a lot to get the best views from them , but also to bring out their colour best, but I do not do any specific winter movement.
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HDD, thanks for the picture and the info. Your plant looks stunning!

Thanks sutto, avane, Barb, everyone

Japie, the full view of your garden is just stunning! Palms and bromeliads are perfect companions, as your photo demonstrates. It looks like a lot of time and effort went into that beautiful garden.

hi i'm doing a biology project for school and i'm having a hard time identifying the species of my bromeliad. could anyone help me? I think it's from south america.

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Hi PC, might be best if you show your brom as a new thread/title. It will be noticed quicker that way.