Loving exotic flowers

My first love when I detected the possibilities in my new garden were orchids. I am a lover of exotic flowers, I feel fascination for them, and given the space and characteristics of the place, I set out to make a collection and harvested my first flowers.

I did it without taking into account one of the most important factors in the development of these special and noble plants. When they are in their environment, in nature, on trees, feeding on rainwater and dew that carries dust and other nutrients from the trunk, branches, and leaves of the trees where they reside, they reproduce by calculating the luminosity they will receive at different times of the year.

It is the sun and the luminosity at certain hours of the day that orchids (and almost all plants) need to complete their cycle, to give us their flowering and to reproduce. I did not fully consider this. Upon arriving home, I placed them well, and when there was a change due to the new solstice, they stopped receiving sunlight, and I did not see it. They saddened, I went on vacation, and they could not bear it.

Disappointed with orchid cultivation and encouraged by a friend, I started with bromeliads. I had never heard anything about them and discovered that they are noble and generous plants. They adapt more easily; some are terrestrial, others are aerial. All the ones we have brought have multiplied. They need little watering, and nutrients are supplied with water every now and then. Transplanting their offspring once the flower withers is necessary. When this happens, the mother plant dies, leaving its successor and sometimes even two or three more.

These are some of the plants in my aerial garden. My project is to increase my collection of bromeliads, cacti, succulent agaves, and small aloes, which I will also show you one day. This project awaits the repair of the windows as it is difficult to roll them, and we are spacing out the garden maintenance until we solve the problem.

I hope you enjoy the flowers. All born here at home, in the external area of the aerial garden, and we supervise them permanently. When we see them blooming, we move them to the internal area. I know it is selfish of us, but if we don't do it, the birds can devour them in one morning. We are sure that these winged beauties have more to feed on in the surroundings. The protected bromeliad flowers inside can remain for about two months, showing us their beauty for our delight and that of our family and visitors.

In this way I will be showing you our full air garden and telling you about the development of new projects, as I also want to distribute larger plants inside the flat as a decorative strategy and to purify the air we breathe.

I am also committed to photographing the birds that visit us, drink water and bathe in the tubs we have for them, especially the hummingbirds that visit us every afternoon to feed on the ‘shrimp’ flowers we grow for them.

I look forward to your questions and recommendations to continue learning about this noble entertainment that fills us with energy, that distinguishes our home and that our family and friends enjoy every time they visit us. I share with you a comment that I have heard several times and it is ‘what a special energy you can breathe here’.

It gives me pleasure to write to you and I am grateful for the opportunity you give me to know that you read me and the energy your comments bring.