Bromelcairns Bimonthly Newsletter of Cairns Bromeliad Society Inc. 2013 # 6 P.O. Box 28 Cairns Queensland 4870 Australia

Honorary Life Member - Grace Goode O.A.M. Honorary Life Member - Kay Edington Life Member - Lynn Hudson Life Member - Robert (Bob) Hudson

******************************************************************** Aims of the Society

Promote and Develop Interest in Bromeliads through Friendship To Co-operate with similar Clubs throughout the World

******************************************************************** Membership Fee: $15 Single, $25 Family, Country Member $25. $7.50 junior (if not in family membership) Meetings start at 1.pm sharp first Saturday of the month. Please bring a cup and a chair. Library: All books & magazines borrowed are to be returned in good order to the following meeting. If not on wait list, they may be rebooked. Plant Display/Sales: To participate, a member must be financial and circumstances permitting, have attended at least three meetings in the past six months. Where the society is charged a stall fee - 20% of sales are deducted for club funds. No charge venue & meetings - 10% of sales is deducted. All plants to be clean, free of disease, named and price tagged. Show Plants: Must be the property of and in the custody of the entrant for the past three months. For Society Shows the entrant must be financial and have attended at least three meetings during the past six months. Pens, Plant Tags & Pots: available at each meeting.

If reprinting article, wholly or in part, please acknowledge Author & Newsletter. Any article &/or Bromelcairns will be Emailed on request to lynnie@ledanet.com.au or lynnhudson@bromeliadsdownunder.com

Previous issues are on my website www.bromeliadsdownunder.com.au

President Bob Hudson 0740533913 V-President Karen Stevens 0740361086 Secretary Lynn Hudson 0740533913 Treasurer Dave Weston 0740578604 Librarian Sharron Miller 0740322283 Editor Lynn Hudson 0740533913 Editor Assist. Gail Taifalos 0740392787 Member Concierge Nalda Wilson 0740544825 Popular Vote Steward Karen Cross 0740545497 OIC Raffles Lesley Hepburn 0488788892

Club Activities & Around the Members < Fernhouse & one patio wall ^NOVEMBER: by President Bob “We met at Karen and Brian’s garden amidst a variety of plants, parrots, quail & chooks. Karen joined our Society in 2000 and has steadily amassed a good variety of species and hybrids both of Bromeliaceae and Tillandsioideae. I think Karen is leaning more to growing tillandsia than other bromeliads - that is next after her birds! Karen is a good Society member, she is currently Minutes Secretary and always enters plants in our Popular Vote and Mini Show sections, contributing to and selling raffle tickets.”MINI SHOW – Dyckia & Orthophytum 1st Dyckia ‘Katherine’ – Dave Weston! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 2nd Dyckia leptostachya – Paul Venturi

1st. Orthophytum ‘Warren Loose’ – Gloria Wegner >>2nd. Orthophytum ‘Starlight’ – Frances Boyd3rd. Orthophytum navioides – Dave Weston

:

1st Neoregelia ‘Dorothy’ - Steven French2nd. Orthophytum vagans varieg. - Christel Venturi

1st Tillandsia velutin x fasciculata – Jo & Mark Pritchard! 2nd..Tillandsia streptophylla – Jo & Mark Pritchard2nd..Tillandsia fasciculata var hondurensis!-Jo & Mark Pritchard! !

1st Vriesea fenestralis – Bernice Mark2nd. Neoregelia ‘Can Can’ – Lesley Hepburn3rd. Neoregelia ‘Chirripo’ - Bernice Mark 3rd. Dyckia ‘Yellow Glow’ – Dave Weston!

1st Cryptanthus ‘Volcano’ – Dave Weston2nd Cryptanthus ‘Margaret’ – Lynn Hudson 3rd Cryptanthus ‘Elaine’ – Karen Stevens

1st Tillandsia ‘Curly Slim’ – Sharron Millar >>>>>>>>>>! 2nd..Tillandsia caput-medusae hybrid - Bob Hudson

!

A small part of Karen’s backyard Epiphytic planting of Till. ‘Roma’ & Ae.‘Bert’ **************************************************November Plants - WOW! We certainly had some eye candy. The Mini show was Orthophytums & Dyckias and I was pleased they were separate sections and Greg Oldano judged them! Multiple specimen orthophytums were very well grown - healthy and with good colour. Gloria is renowned for her overflowing Ortho. ‘Warren Loose’ as on page 2 and Francis showed us she can do it too. Both excellent. Dave showed a perfect navioides that just pipped Christel’s clump of variegated Ortho. vagans - an eyecatcher with good colour - it is not easy to grow unless you give it enough water. It scored 7votes against Steven’s 16 for Neo. ‘Dorothy’ in Popular Vote! [page 6] Well done both of you.

O. ‘Starlight’ [had another head but it wouldn’t fit!] Orthophytum vagans Dyckias - the vicious but beautiful dyckias, Dave just adores them and grows them very well. He showed ‘Katherine’ a beautiful silver scurfed unnamed seedling that he bought in Katherine N.T. Paul showed a nice leptostachya. Dave also brought in ‘Yellow Glow’ and the very interesting species estevesii. Most dyckias have yellow or orange bell shaped flowers, estevesii flowers are shaped more like fosterella flowers. Dyckias grow in round circles, estevesii grows flat centered!

Dyckia ‘Katherine‘ Dyckia estevesii Dyckia ‘Yellow Glow’

*New Members: Welcome to Joanne & Mark Pritchard. Mark says they know a lot about tillandsias but little about other bromeliads, so he has come to the right place! The accrued knowledge in our small group is amazing and members are willing to share.* Jo & Mark showed three tillandsias and you can see the high quality of their entries.

Tillandsias [velutina x fasciculata] streptophylla [fasciculata var. hondurensis] There was a feast of well grown tillandsias but Sharron blitzed them with ‘Curly Slim’, it was perfectly grown and presented pictured on page 2. Well done Sharron. Bob showed showed a caput medusae hybrid and Dave fasciculata clavispica. On show was a profusion of colour, tillandsias, neoregelias, orthophytums, vrieseas, dyckias and cryptanthus. It mixed well with Karen’s bright garden, ornaments and birds. Bernice proudly showed a well marked fenestralis, to win the Open section, with Lesley’s bright Neo.‘Can Can’ 2nd. and a tie for 3rd. with Dave’s Dyckia ‘Yellow Glow’ and Bernice’s Neo. ‘Chirripo’. Then there were six excellent cryptanthus and Dave won with a very dark beautiful Cryptanthus ‘Volcano‘ he received from Doug cross last ‘Bloomin Broms’.

Tillandsia fasciculata clavispica Neoregelia ‘Dorothy‘ Vriesea fenestralis As we move into a new year, 2014, I hope members will keep their high standard and bring plants in to show and plants with problems we can help sort out together. Shoppers were amazed at the standard of our sale plants last Saturday - let’s keep them amazed! Just a little more attention and bromeliads just come tops!

It’s all about Plants & Friendship. November continued..

! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

! ! ! ! ! !

! ! ! ! ! ! ! A Bromeliad Society Meeting! ! ! ! from the perspective of new member - Janie O’Brien It was easy to see which house was our host for this, our second only meeting. The front garden was planted with a colourful array of large Aechmea blanchetianas including lime green, gold, orange and red which really took my eye. Being an artist, colour has always been a prominent factor in my life and a bright lime cultivar of Ae. blanchetiana was one of the first bromeliads in my collection. It was purchased a number of years ago at a Mossman plant sale day. I bought three rather big plants that day - another was Ae. mariae-reginae and when it first flowered, had me in awe of its beauty. Lastly, a vreisea - the name of which is long gone but I purchased it for its incredible markings which reminded me of a wild animal. I still have those original plants and their offspring and it’s them that rekindled my fascination and passion for broms.

Back to meeting - hubby Rodney and I entered into the large back patio area of our host Karen, where the bamboo surrounds of the grotto like patio are covered in so many tillandsias of various shapes and sizes - I could spend hours looking at. Then something else caught my eye, or should I say my ear. Several large birdcages were settled at various locations around the back garden and inside these were various colourful birds - mainly parrots, I believe, and I also spotted a beautiful pair of love-birds I wouldn’t have minded taking home with me. The various speakers we had did well in competition with our noisy feathered friends. I moved myself into the front row and I was able to hear and benefit from the talks which were most interesting. I’m in the process of absorbing information about bromeliads; especially how to care for them. Light, I am realising, is a very important factor in growing beautiful bromeliads and I’m green with envy of all you lucky people who have shade-cloth enclosures to grown them in. Very interesting talks and demonstrations were provided, first by Bob and then by Dave, on how to separate clumps of tills and dyckias respectively.

Dave’s task was the more difficult as he went into hand to hand combat with his Dyckia ‘Betty Farnhill’ seedling - a claret colour prickly looking thing - like a bunch of sea anemones - of about 30 cm in diameter. Dave said he usually hosed the dirt from the roots but today he used his fingers to tear the clump apart, then slowly separated and removed each plantlet from the group with the aid of various tools. Kindly, Dave let us all keep a little plantlet.

The competitions were thrilling but I only had eyes for one plant - the winner of the Novice Bromeliad section, a superb large plant called Neoregelia ‘Dorothy’ gown by Steven - one of the most spectacular neoregelias I have ever seen; she’s such a show-off bearing her bright pink centre to all who cared to look. She is on my list.

Having purchased several raffle tickets, our arms were laden with bromseliads to take home and nurture to maturity; with thanks to the members who provided these plants for the raffle, I went home feeling like a little kid at Christmas time.

2013 POPULAR VOTE, CAIRNS & MINI SHOW RESULTS 2013 Most Points – Lynn Hudson - Bob Hudson Trophy Popular Vote Novice Bromeliad - Bromeliads & Logs Trophy - Steven French Cryptanthus - Grace Goode Silver Ingot Trophy - Christel Venturi Tillandsia - Bromeliads & Logs Trophy - Joanne & Mark Pritchard Open Bromeliad - 2002 WBC Florida Sundial Trophy - Darryl Lister Cryptanthus - Grace Goode Trophy - Lynn Hudson Tillandsia - Bob Hudson Trophy - Bob Hudson Congratulations to the winners who get to dust a Trophy for a year.! Remember your peers voted you The Best. Total Points - Society + Cairns Show Lynn Hudson 35+62 =97, Dave Weston 50+21=71, Bob Hudson 30+28=58, Gail Taifalos 17+19.5=36.5, Steven French 0+21 =21, Brendan Leishman 12+7=19, Darryl Lister 0+15=15, Lesley Hepburn 8+5=13, Bernice Marks 0+13=13, Gloria Wegner 5+3=8, Maria Grant 0+7.5=7.5, Frances Boyd 0+6.5=6.5, Joanne & Mark Pritchard 0+6=6, Paul Venturi 0+5.5=5.5, Christel Venturi 0+5=5, Joanne Nutter 0+5=5, Karen Stevens 2+2=4, Marguerite Sexton 0+4=4, Nalda Wilson 2+2=4, Sharron Miller 0+4=4, Stuart Howe 0+2.5=2.5, Joanne Nutter 0+2=2, June McGlew 0+2=2, Beryl Watson 0+1.5=1.5, Kath Radloff 0+1.5=1.5, Wendy O’Bryan 0+1.5=1.5, Karen Cross 1+0=1 Congratulations to each member who ‘had a go’ & entered plants, ! ! Each Entrant is a Winner. Well Done each of you. I would have liked to have seen more plants in the Cairns Show, next year?? ! So who goes up to join the Big League? Any person who has been in the Society since 2011 and the Winners. Winners up you go Steven, Christel, Joanne & Mark, plus Joanne N. Points allotted in Popular Vote, Mini Shows and Cairns Show are3 points for first, 2 for second and 1 for third = 6 total. Ties are shared as fractions - if three tie for first each gets 2 points = 6 total and no other points allotted. If two tie for first they each get 2.5 points, there is no second place, third gets 1 point.

Variegations by Lynn

What is a variegated plant? The BSI Bromeliad Glossary page 49: “The condition of a leaf when certain sections are reduced or totally devoid of green pigments with the result that the leaf has pale stripes, blotches, or bands.” There is a fascinating range of leaf patterns and markings to be found in the bromeliad family. Variegation, fenestrations, tassellations, zonation and marmoration, are some of the words we use to describe the leaf patterns of our favourite plants. Years ago leaves with any two colours were considered variegated and thus included Guzmania lindenii and Vriesea hieroglyphica - lindenii has dark upward stripes while hieroglyphica has patterns or ‘glyphs’ - these ‘glyphs’ include vrieseas with leaf markings that are irregularly coloured. Some hybridists produce a plant with stripes, blotches and bands.There are eight forms of variegations: Albo marginated - white leaf margins. Flavo marginated - yellow leaf margins. Marginated leaf margins differ in colour to the main colour of the leaves. Lineated leaves have thin lengthwise lines covering most of the leaf. Medio-picta literally means ‘painted centre’, the centre is green or pinkTricoloured the leaves have three colours; usually green, cream and rose.Quadricolored the leaves have four colours: white, yellow red and green.Variegated - leaves have lengthwise lines, which usually are not uniform. It is considered that genetic mutation or a virus probably causes variegations. The seeds can carry a virus caused by the previous infection of the seed producing plant, even before ovule fertilization, or by the infection of the pollen. The virus is often no longer present when symptoms (eg variegation) appear. Mutation and virus in bromeliads could be caused by one or several factors. Sudden changes in microclimate, temperature, humidity and light could have a strong influence. Biological stress such as prolonged dehydration or poor nutrition and ecological disturbances such as fire, flooding, freezing and cyclones can produce outward changes we can see, therefore they could also induce variegation. Chemical substances are capable of causing variegation and flower-inducing substances have produced types of variegation in lateral buds. Meristem cloning can produce beautiful variegations. So we find variegation may be caused by genetic mutation, climate, virus infection, or a combination of factors. Bromeliads are monocotyledons, their seeds are in a closed ovary and they produce seeds of a single seed leaf. They have parallel veins running lengthwise along the leaves. If they have tissue with infected cells, as the leaf grows the problem is transmitted down the entire leaf producing clearly defined lines or bands. Variegations are rarely found in the subfamily Pitcairnioideae or Tillandsioideae, but are enjoyed in the genera of guzmania, vriesea and alcantarea. In the family of bromelioideae variegation is common. We have beautiful variegated ananus, aechmeas, billbergias, cryptanthus, canistropsis, canistrums and nidulariums. Because it is a mutation, a variegated plant can produce variegated, green & albino pups. Some variegated plants are harder to care for and some have a slower growth rate.Very, very rarely variegation is stable, it changes from leaf to leaf or just disappears.

! ! ! ! ! ! ! 8 At the World Bromeliad Conference 2002 at St. Petersburg, Bob and I were delighted to meet the esteemed Nat DeLeon who spoke on bromeliad variegation and shared his experience to get as many pups as possible. His tips were:*Overpot the mother plant before she flowers and feed her both from the top and bottom. The bigger the pot, the more plants you will get. *Remove the flower spike when it emerges, to release the hormone that induces offset growth.*Trim and even remove the outside leaves to allow more light to the buds and therefore make more room for the pups to grow.*If feeding heavily and your plant loses variegation, you are over feeding.*Cut off any green plants and keep only the variegated pups.*Place all variegated plants in as much bright light as the plant can stand to produce stronger variegation contrasts.*Drill the meristem to produce more pups - yuk.*On seeds - he finds they usually come up albino, then flake and die. “As rules are meant to be broken and nothing surprises me about bromeliads”, Nat suggested we try anything, like self pollinating variegated plant flowers to see if they would produce viable seed.Most people like variegated plants as they tantalize our senses with their beauty. Isn’t it amazing that we have them because something went wrong!Variegated Plants reverting to Plain. Some variegated plants revert to plain plants and some of these can produce variegated offsets. The most common one is Aechmea ‘Bert.’ Bert is a great plant, it is tough, grows well both epiphytically and terrestrially, in sun and shade - and suddenly you can have a variegated plant. Aechmea orlandiana variegated, behaves the same. Aechmea fasciata varieties albo marginata and variegata sometimes throw plain offsets that can produce a variegated offset but some have just a few stripes. Aechmea ‘Samurai’ is beautiful, but is frustrating to the grower who has a list of persons wanting one! One plant will be true, the next two or three will be without the yellow stripes. A grower is lucky to get three good plants. Luckily, the plain one is a beauty. Aechmea chantinii variegated will produce plain offsets but their progeny can produce variegated offsets. My original two plants came from Paul deRoose in 2002 - I asked Paul for 'Samurai', he said he had better, it would give more variegated plants. He was very right! Olive Trevor quarantined them for me. They have been faithful - yes I have had a few plain chantinii offsets but I have even had a variegated plant from a plain! This has never happened from a Samurai, but maybe the following will work ... If you have just one stripe on a plant, any plant, place the plant with the stripe to the morning sun. The node at the base of the striped leaf can produce a variegated plant. The instability can be very disappointing to a buyer who has paid a high price. A good grower/trader will advise you of instability. Currently there are many plants available with stripes, blotches and bands, “breeders breeding lookalikes who think their babies are the next best thing, very distinctive in their eyes and so refuse to cull” (v) should admit one extra spot or stripe does not justify a new name. (Geoff Lawn page 9)

! ! ! ! ! ! ! 9 Albino plants lack chlorophyll, the green colouring in plants, they usually appear

cream but sometimes they are white. Chlorophyll is needed for photosynthesis. In a few cases the chlorophyll could be latent and develop later. Albino plants are dependent on the mother plant to supply food and they put great strain on the mother plant. It is better to cut the albino off and allow the mother to give you a normal offset. An albino plant seldom flowers and can weaken and even kill the mother plant.*****************************************************************************************************

Bromeliad Cultivar Registrar! ! ! ! ! ! ! For the uninitiated, registration is only for named hybrids and specialspecies named cultivars. See the BCR at: http://registry.bsi.org/ The I.D. problems won't go away whether they are registered or not. The onus lies with the breeders breeding lookalikes who think their babies are the next best thing, very distinctive in their eyes and so refuse to cull. Cultivars are better recorded than not, that way at least you have a chance to identify them and the next generation at least have a permanent reference after we are all gone. The BCR is only for growers who care about correct labeling and trying to make a difference in a chaotic horticultural & botanical world, where pure species will become a vanishing rarity in cultivation if not watched. The gene pool of natural biodiversity, even in bromeliads, is diminishing world-wide every day, whether you realize it or not. ********************************************************************************************************************* Bitter brom-ides by Dan Kennedy Editor Bromeliad Blade, San DiegoWhy did the man admire the Tillandsia? Because it was such a genus.How many blondes does it take to mount a Dyckia? Zero. They’re not that dumb.Why did the baker visit the enchanted forest? Because he liked the cream trees.Why did the Quesnelia stop arguing with the Vriesea? Because it was pointless.Why was the female Hechtia so popular? Because she was always thorny.Desirable plant: Species from your favorite genus that you only have one of.Highly desirable plant: Species from your favorite genus that you lack.Incredible plant: One your spouse won’t let you buy.Totally incredible plant: One you know you can’t afford.Bi-generic: Genus that swings both ways.Full-sun Tillandsia: Something someone else grows.Full-sun Neoregelia: Something that grows in Florida.Loads of experience: Something that comes from slaughter.So-so genus: A genus someone else likes. Or one that isn’t Tillandsia.Magic ingredient that makes Tillandsias grow: water.Why did the pineapple grow in the tomato field? Because it had to play ketchup.What’s the difference between a large Aechmea and a pile of razor wire? Razor wire doesn’t need watering.Space hog: A common plant that won’t fit in the palm of your hand. Statement piece: A plant that you buy that won’t fit in your garden.(Reprinted from ‘The Blade’, newsletter of San Diego Bromeliad Society, Thanx Dan)

From Grace: Cannibals came across a big game hunter in his sleeping bag, “Oh good, breakfast in bed”

Vr. ʻLynnieʼ

10 ! ! ! Have you Ever seen a baby Hedgehog?

This way they covered and protected themselves - but the quills of each one wounded their closest companions. After a while, they decided to distance themselves one from the other - but alone and frozen, they began to die. So they had to make a choice: either accept the quills of their companions or disappear from the Earth. Wisely, they decided to go back to being together. To receive the heat that came from the others they learned to live with the little wounds caused by the close relationship with their companions.This way they were able to survive. The best relationship is not the one that brings together perfect people, but when each individual learns to live with imperfections of others and can admire the other persons’ good qualities. The moral of the story is: Just learn to live with the Pricks in your life! *****************************************************************************************

Cowboy Ten Commandments From Dan Kinnard Posted on the wall at Cross Trails Church in Farlie, Texas : 1. Just one God! ! ! ! ! 2. Honor yer Ma & Pa. 3. No telling tales or gossipin'. 4. Git yourself to church meeting. 5. Put nothin' before God.! ! ! 6. No foolin' around with another fella's gal. 7. No killin'. ! ! ! ! ! 8. Watch yer mouth.! ! ! ! 9. Don't take what ain't yers. 10. Don't be hankerin' for yer buddy's stuff. ! ! ! ! Did y'all git all that?“******************************************************************************************************************************************************” Bet you didn’t know this!! Cairns Post, 27/11/13, p21. Rosie Miller. My mum was an amputee and when she passed away we had to take her limb back. As it was a public hospital it still belonged to the hospital. [I want each of you to be vary careful as I don’t want to have to take your bits back!] ************************************************************************************************************

Grace Goode OAM - Most of you know Grace broke her hip, survived hospital and rehabilitation centre , not happily. I went down to her home to help her niece, settle her in. Leonie is a very special diamond, visits, cooks & washes for Grace. Grace is an amazing Lady, it was wonderful to daily see her strength return. She is still a little fragile but still stubborn and finds it hard to go slow. At 96 she does not enjoy being “bossed around by these young people”. She just wants to be able to go downstairs when she chooses! We all wish you well Grace and please use the stick & Fred the walker for a while yet. No more falls!Grace gave me one joke book for our Bromelcairns! So we start .... * The cockroaches were so big they had number plates. * Drinker to his mate “If I die first will you do a favour for me?” “Yes” said his mate “I want you to pour a bottle of whiskey on my grave” His mate said “Yes, I will do that but first can I pass it through my kidneys?”

Fable of the Hedgehog It was the coldest winter ever. Many animals died because of the cold. The Hedgehogs realized the situation and decided to group together to keep warm.

Neo. ʻAmazing Graceʼ

11

More from Grace

*Bob ‘I was drunk last night, wasn’t I.’ Lynn ‘Yes you were, you also fell upthe back steps and broke the bottle in your back pocket and cut your behind.”Bob ‘How do you know all this?‘ Lynn replied ‘I found the bandaids plastered all over the bathroom mirror.’* Boss to job applicant ‘I want a responsible person for this job. Are you?’ ‘Oh yes, every job I’ve had whenever anything happened they said I was responsible.’* The Irish vet: Every time a frog croaked, he buried it.*Sally: ‘How do you get your son out of bed in the morning?’ Pearl: Easy, I just throw the cat into his bedroom and shut the door.‘ Sally ‘How does that get him up?” Pearl: ‘He sleeps with his dog’* Definition of an old Sugar Daddy: An old fossil who thinks his tossil is colossal.*Pat asked Mick to help him witha sofa wedged in the doorway. After 20 mins of struggling Mick said ‘It’s no good Pat, we’ll never get it in.’ Pat said ‘In? * Two Mexican detectives were investigating the murder of Juan Gonzalez.'How was he killed?' asked one detective. 'With a golf gun,' the other detective replied. 'A golf gun! What is a golf gun?' 'I don't know but it sure made a hole in Juan.'* Paddy put all his money on a horse, told his friends ‘It is a cert, it starts at 20 to one, the other horses start at one o’clock.’***************************************************************************************** Nothing just happens or just gets done,

Someone has to make it happen or do it. ******************************************************************************************************************

Wishing Each of You & Yours a Safe & Happy Christmastime

& really Great Growing, Busy, Healthy & Happy Year for 2014

Lynn’s garden Ortho. ‘Firecracker’ by Maria Grant

Megan & John Welch * FERtLIZERS * FUNGICIDES * WATERING SYSTEMS * POLYPIPES * POLY FILMS * * SPRAYING EQUIPMENT * SHADECLOTH * PLANTER BAGS * PLASTIC POTS * Cnr. Brown & Little Spence Sts. Cairns Phone: 07 4035 2670 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hudson’s Bromeliads Down Under

Bromeliads & Tillandsias Bob & Lynn Hudson ABN 66 951 932 976 47 Boden St. Edge Hill Cairns Phone: (07) 40533 913 email: lynnie@ledanet.com.au ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“Bromeliads in Paradise” Honolulu 8-14 September 2014Information & Registration Form -

http://www.bsi.org/events/2014/2014_Registration_Form.pdf Learn from the Best * Enjoy Time with Old Friends * Make New Friends * Buy Amazing Plants ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“ Bloomin Broms” 2014 - June 7th & 8th! Cominos House, cnr. Little & Greenslopes St., Edge Hill ! ! Good Company, Interesting Speakers, Great Plants.! Chris Larson of Victoria & Nigel Thomson of Cootharaba

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“Bromeliad Cultivation Notes” by Lynn Hudson A little ‘how to’ book. Cultivation made easy. Basics in language anyone can follow.

“Bromeliads Under the Mango Tree” by John Catlan A ‘must have’ book to help you think and grow your bromeliads better. Both available in bulk at reduced price. Contact Lynn on 07 40533913 or lynnie@ledanet.com.au or LynnHudson@BromeliadsDownUnder.com

Cairns Lovebirds - bred by Karen Stevens! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 6 Alabama Street, Whiterock, Qld 4868 Phone 0419021302 bpklstevens@bigpond.com