black tar-like damage to bromeliads from inkcap mushrooms.
bromeliad gardens
More damage. . .
Final photo of inkcap damage.
Well, I hope you enjoyed the show. Welcome to my garden!
Welcome to Dave's, Dawndelie, and thanks for posting the pics! You have some gorgeous plants. I hope those mushrooms give up the ghost soon.
Michele
dawn, I have huge beds of broms. and i have never even knew something like mushrooms could be so bad!! We are in such a high humidity climate, and i do have some mushrooms pop up when we have our rainy season here, but there is no contamination of the bromeliads? How awful!! I wonder what you can do, and not damage the bromeliads? So sorry.....sue
beautiful pictures.
these are some that i call matchstick.
these ones are lovely but dangerous!
these i just sorted out. i love the orange color they get
i just planted all these ones under a royal poinciana tree so they get quite a bit of sun in winter and a light shade in summer.
most of these i actually traded with a guy i work with.
this one is about to open
this is one of my favorites but it has yet to flower for me.
Your broms look very happy and are growing great...wonderful tropical setting for them! Enjoyed your photos! sue
x
Not many people take a long shot of brom beds for some reason. I know for me they are hard to frame in a shot. The camera doesn't see what the eye sees.
My eye see many more shades of green than the camera. In the shot below they all end up looking like a similar 'grassy' plant, but, they were many shades of green in the bed.
I work for a lady that collects and she is a member of the local chapter of the Brom Society. We set aside a bed for brom's only. I tried to plant different colors next to each other to bring out/show some contrast. When planting I always put the short plants in front.
This message was edited Jun 25, 2007 4:37 AM
Had a tree stump that needed covering, since the soil was thin I planted these>
They are not a easy plant to work with sometimes. My favorites are the big ones>
The bigger the better sometimes>
The most interesting plantings I have seen....
are when the are planted alone...
or in containers.
My brother likes to move his plants around, like they were furniture. I used to give him leftovers from some of my jobs, not any more. He moves things around until they die. I have given him some brom's and told him they have to be kept in containers, it worked, he hasn't killed any of my gifts in months.
This red one is a sun lover. Sun loving brom's are hard to come by. I like them best because most of them have good color.
