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BROMELIADS
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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. |
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Vriesea "Shima Rhyu" |
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| Quesnelia testudo |
Canistropsis Billbergioides |
Billbergia pyramidalis |
Aechmea gamosepala
var. |
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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.
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Guzmania monostachia |
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| Hohenbergia
stellata (red) |
Billbergia
( brachysiphon var. breviflora ?) |
Pitcairnia smithiorum |
Bromelia
balansae |
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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.
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Ananas comosus var. variegatus |
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| Portea alatisepala |
Cryptanthus
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Canistrum Fostriana |
Androlepis skinneri
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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.
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. |
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Tillandsia cyanea |
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Keith Dawson
Symdock Pty. Ltd.
Belrose Avenue
Petrie, 4502
Queensland Australia
Phone 07 32856710
Email
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