Tillies

[DirtyCoconuts]

i just found this thread and i really hope you decide to resurrect it....WOW

inspiring and jaw dropping.

I love your displays and mounts too

[wisdomseeker]

I'll bite.

A couple that I'm starting to focus on a little more.

A thick leaf form of T. montana


T. tenuifolia var. strobiliformis and T. tenuifolia 'Emerald Forest'




Two different forms of T. brachycaulos




T. paleacea ssp. apurimacensis


A different form of T. funckiana

[DirtyCoconuts]

wow to all of them but that T. montana looks like a sea anemone underwater!! wow!!

[wisdomseeker]

A few more

T. duratii - a small offset from a mother plant that I gave away (it was about 2.5 ft long and about 13 years old).


T. edithae - a small offset from my mother plant. Mother plant is elongated (about 12 years old). Was about 3 ft. long (have been breaking off the stem near the base so I can continue to grow it in one of my set-ups).




A couple forms of T. stricta




One that I regret giving away T. xerographica x T. rothii (aka: 'Best in Class'). Getting hard to find now-a-days.




A couple of indoor set-ups

[DirtyCoconuts]

eyes popping out of my head



you have a great touch for growing them, clearly, but you have an equally well developed artistic eye for the display too!!!!

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[SouthPark]

What an outstanding display. More than outstanding. I'm with DC on this one .....

It is like AvatAR.

[wisdomseeker]

Appreciate the compliments, thanks!

Maybe of interest to DC - T. pruinosa (aka: fuzzy wuzzy airplant), used to be known as T. breviscapa.
This one is just starting to blush and should be flowering in the coming weeks.




These still grow wild in Florida. Endangered - in imminent danger of extinction within the state (listed as threatened plants in the preservation on native flora of Florida Act). Can still be found in Lee & Collier counties.

[DirtyCoconuts]

Wow- that is stunning

i have a pruinosa but it is pretty tiny still


cool story (i think LOL) i drive across the state a lot (or used to preCOVID) and if i had the extra time i always stopped one of three places to spend a few minutes and look for cool stuff. the fakahatchee strand, Big Cypress and Picayune. I am always "looking" for cigar orchids and ghosts lol but i am FINDING a lot of birds and bugs and tillys and awesome other stuff.

i spotted a bizarre purple alien and investigated to find a tilly like i had never seen and tracked down a ranger to make him come back with me to introduce me.

I spent a while trying to locate one in my neighborhood to no avail LOL ( i am in the next county over but the wrong side of the Everglades) so i tried to find one i could trust was NOT poached but grown and i eventually was able to-

this is exciting to see it has THAT kind of potential

[wisdomseeker]

Originally Posted by DirtyCoconuts

I spent a while trying to locate one in my neighborhood to no avail LOL ( i am in the next county over but the wrong side of the Everglades) so i tried to find one i could trust was NOT poached but grown and i eventually was able to-

Good words: "NOT poached"!

I use to get down in those areas (beautiful indeed) decades ago while in Gainesville (took a couple of courses @ UF... brings back memories of hunting for wild mushrooms in the cow pastures).

You can only hope that people have true integrity (or at best, true common sense) to understand some of the causes for 'threatened/endangered'.

Some of my snowballs (T. tectorum) around 8-9" diameter.







T. chusgonensis

[wisdomseeker]

A little bit of red-white & blue (kind of coincides with the Presidents' Day holiday).

T. ionantha cultivar that I acquired from Ecuador several years ago. This is an offset from the original mother plant. I've been growing this one out for about 2 years. Plant has a small compact structure around 2.5" tall and 2" wide. Leaves are fairly thick and succulent. Top of the plant has a squared off shape. Doesn't have the bling (bright cherry flush) that some of the other varieties have.