BROMELIADS

   

We would like to offer our friends and visitors a very enthusiastic welcome and pleasant stay at our Bromeliad web site, Garden at Symdock, a home nursery. Please feel free to browse the digital gardens and enjoy the many beautiful Bromeliad photographs and descriptions.
( Please do not pick the flowers)

As the plants grow, mature, flower and pup, so shall this site develop, with the growth of various genera sections, descriptions and special purchase plant offers, which are intended to entertain and expand the regular visitors and customers.

The plants displayed in the photographs are hopefully named correctly, with a short description and some cultural notes included to assist the interested horticulturist.

Alternatively, if you have some interesting bromeliad photographs, descriptions, or comments, we would be interested to hear from you.
 
Vriesea "Shima Rhyu"
   
Quesnelia testudo
Canistropsis Billbergioides
Billbergia pyramidalis
Aechmea gamosepala var.
       


Bromeliads are very unique, exotic looking plants in a very fascinating family group. They are amazingly adaptable, tough and relatively easy to grow. They come from extremely diversified growing conditions, creating extremely hardy and resilient plants.

Bromeliad survival instincts are strongly developed, with some plants living happily in the harshest deserts and others in swamps and rainforests. Plants can grow different root systems capable of only support or adsorbing nutrients from the soil. Some plants have adapted to absorb and store water between their leaves.

Bromeliads foliage offers an extremely diversified range of sizes, colours, shapes and patterns. These include spots, scale, bands and stripes. Exquisitely coloured flowers and bracts in various sizes and shapes complement these plants. The showy, but unusual distinctive flowers, blooms and bracts are unlike any other plants.

 
Guzmania monostachia
   
Hohenbergia stellata (red)
Billbergia
( brachysiphon var. breviflora ?)
Pitcairnia smithiorum
Bromelia balansae
   

On maturing, many bromeliads change their central leaf colours into brilliant and vivid colour displays, called blushing. Neoregelias and tillandsias are well known for blushing to attract pollinators to their flowers. This blushing can last for many months.

Bromeliads grow naturally on the branches of trees as epiphytes, while others grow in the ground as terrestrials and others cling to rocks as saxicolous. They reproduce by developing offsets, pups or shoots and if sufficient energy is available, flowering to produce seeds.

The bromeliads water storage promotes and encourages communities of local wildlife such as lizards, frogs, snakes and birds. The specialized flowers attract natural pollinators like birds, bees, ants, insects, flies and moths.
 
Ananas comosus var. variegatus

 

 
Portea alatisepala
Cryptanthus
Canistrum Fostriana
Androlepis skinneri


Bromeliads grown locally are easily cultivated and propagated in gardens, making excellent specimen plants. They are easily grown outdoors, all the year round without frosts, with dappled light under trees. They also thrive on patios or verandas, in well-ventilated and bright locations.


The most notable of the Bromeliaceae family and developed commercially by man is the edible pineapple. Other useful plants include the grandfather's beard or Spanish Moss, collected to pad the car seats by Henry Ford
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Currently we don't publish a set price list. This is because of the varying sizes of plants throughout the year, availability and the different ways of buying bromeliads like seedlings, pups, bare rooted, potted, landscaping plants, full flower and flushed colour, just to explain.

Please contact us with your specific bromeliad needs and requirements.

 
Tillandsia cyanea
 

Keith Dawson
Symdock Pty. Ltd.
Belrose Avenue
Petrie, 4502
Queensland Australia
Phone 07 32856710
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