Neomarica Longifolia

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This is a beautiful flower which looks like a ground orchid. However, it is a Yellow Walking Iris. This plant has overlapping leaves forming a fan of greenery. I first saw this plant at the Singapore Botanical Gardens and have rarely seen it in India. However, I was lucky to get a plant online on amazon.in. Now I want to get the other colours and varieties as well….

Air plants–a new fascination…

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Although my fascination with plants goes back to the time when I was a child, I have never been exposed to the plants called as “Air Plants or Tillandsia” until recently. It was during a visit to a nursery in Calicut or Kozhikode in Kerala wherein I spied some different plants and decided to try my hand at growing them. I live in Chennai, a coastal city in India with high humidity, so I was assured that these plants would thrive quite well.

While the actual purchase of the plants was simple, as they were inexpensive, (however, not all Air Plants are inexpensive) their care and display took on a whole new meaning.

Youtube has been a great help with a host of videos talking about the care of air plants. For display as well, there are lots of videos and they have inspired me in many ways.

Social Media, especially Instagram is a great help. In India, I have an online friend who’s an expert on Air Plants, and she helps me understand them better. Thank you Deeksha for all the guidance. She is having a site where one can view as well as purchase Air plants online at https://www.instagram.com/plantessentialsofficial/ . She also gives great advice and is a real asset as a friend and guide.

One of the ways to display is to mount (either fixed or loosely mounted) on driftwood. My current sojourns to the beach also include searching for driftwood, especially ones where we can mount Air Plants.

https://youtu.be/oOo9p9lO2TA