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| Billbergia x windii | ||||||||||||
| Angel's tears, Friendship plant | ||||||||||||
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| A bromeliad native to South America with flowers in a kaleidoscope of pink, green, purple and yellow. They are evergreen perennials, generally quite forgiving of cold - mine survive well over the winter in an insulated but unheated greenhouse, and spend the rest of the year outside in dappled sunshine, but they can also be kept indoors in a spot out of direct sunlight. There is another variety, Billbergia nutans, which has narrower leaves. | ||||||||||||
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| Requires little care - keep the rosettes filled with water. Plants can be kept indoors, but are happy outside in semi-shade during the summer months. Feed occasionally during the growing season. Side shoots are produced regularly (and the main plant dies back), These can be removed, repotted and passed on to others, making the plant deserving of its common name, 'Friendship plant'! Orchid or bromeliad compost is recommended, but one part of ordinary soil or compost mixed with two parts of perlite will do just as well. |
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| Solidago canadensis | Fuchsia fulgens | Zaluzianskya capensis | Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii | Cichorium intybus |
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