Air plants for weddings by Flora Grubb

These pictures have been taken from the very lovely Flora Grubb Website. http://floragrubb.com/idx/index.php. How beautiful are these air plant arrangements? For further information on Tillandsia refer to my previous blog on Flora Grubb.

Air Plants (Tillandsia) with Love – a Key Essential to Garden Art

If you live in America and can not bear the concept of buying another chunk of chocolates for your beloved you can buy a gift box filled with growing love – an airplant (Tillandsia) from Flora Grubb’s on-line store. Apartment Therapy have recently done a few article on air plants as well and mentioned fernseed as another artist who works with these plants (see her image below).

Garden Beet loves this idea and has hunted down a UK retailer who specialises in air plants.

Key Essentials is run by Maria Isaacs in Dorset. The family company sells an overwhelming number of air plants that make great gifts. Some plants are grown in the UK and others are nursery grown in Guatemala and then shipped to the UK.

Isaacs has been growing and selling air plants for 15 years and advises that they are really an indoor plant in the UK.  Some species are hardier than others and whilst most can survive outdoors during the warmer months it is best to bring them inside during winter. They dislike frosts.

Air plants do not need soil to grow and therefore can be located just about anywhere providing its not too cold. These plants provide great sculptural opportunity (as shown in the previous article on air plants) .

Garden Art, Air Plants, Tillandsia and Airspace in Contemporary Gardens

Airplants (genus Tillandsia) offer much garden art inspiration. Tillandsia create amazing shapes with their tentical like leaves. They do not need any soil and are therefore able to be fixed to various materials and locations.  Landscape Architect, Flora Grubb in San Francisco has become well known for her arrangements of these plants. The idea of arranging Tillandsia is not new but Flora has certainly moved these plants from their original 70’s wood and rock arrangements (as shown below) .

Given the current trend of architecture morphing with the garden in a Patric Blanc style it is likely that we will continue to see  different garden typologies develop.

Flora has also been responsible for some beautiful succulent green walls. These wall planters have been inspiring many internet gardeners and she now has the product available for purchase .

Biospheres by Artist Tomas Saraceno uses the airplants in his art to explore ecology. For a full explanation on these Globes please refer to RETHINK Contemporary art and climate change .