Welcome to Andy’s award winning air plants the home of tillandsia and other bromeliads for sale in the UK.
At Andy’s Air Plants you can find information on the wonderful world of Bromeliads and shop my beautiful range of Air Plants (Tillandsia) for sale. My name is Andrew Gavin and I am a plant enthusiast, amateur botanist and plant collector in Penzance, Cornwall UK. I have studied and worked in Horticulture for 20 years and I am R.H.S qualified. I work as a gardener and have been employed by owners of various large gardens and Estates, public and private, working with various plant collections. Read more about me here…
Air Plants for sale
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Tillandsia usneoides 'Spanish Moss' Large clump
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- Regular price
- Sold out
- Sale price
- £20.00
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Tillandsia usneoides 'Spanish Moss' Small clumps
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- Regular price
- £14.00
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- £14.00
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Tillandsia bergeri x recurvifolia var. subsecundifolia
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- Regular price
- £12.00
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- £12.00
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What is an Air Plant?
Air plant is a common name for the genus Tillandsia in the Bromeliad family native to the forests, mountains and deserts of Central and South America.
Air plants are named so because of their ability to take all their nutrients from moisture in the air unlike most other plants which need to draw up nutrients through the roots.
To do this air plants absorb nutrients from any available moisture in the air such as rain, mist/fog or evaporating dew and from here they draw their nutrient source. They are also known as air plants because of their ability to fill a niche and grow as epiphytes in tree canopies, or on other plants such as scrub bushes and cacti. Some species can also be found growing on rocks and cliffs as (saxicoles/liphophytes), some have colonised telegraph wires and even houses and roofs. Others grow terrestrially in environments such as coastal deserts, stabilising sand dunes.
Mounting and Displaying your Air Plants
After you have received your plants you can start to think about mounting and displaying your air plants, the possibilities are endless.
Tillandsia’s have a very superficial root system that is only used for anchorage, this means that you have much flexibility in how you choose to display or grow your plants. A happy Tillandsia will root on to almost anything, but don’t worry if your plant does not root much, many plants grow to full size, flower and clump without hardly ever putting out roots.
