Tillandsia Houston is a popular hybrid, resulting from a cross between Tillandsia stricta and Tillandsia recurvifolia (often referred to as Tillandsia meridionalis). It combines the best characteristics of both parent species: a compact rosette form, silvery, powdery leaves, and a particularly attractive flower color. The hybrid is robust, blooms profusely, and is easy to care for.
Characteristics:
Tillandsia Houston forms regular, medium-sized rosettes with slightly curved, gray-silver leaves. During blooming, the bracts turn bright pink to magenta. The violet tubular flowers emerge from the center of the rosette and provide a striking contrast to the silvery foliage. After flowering, the plant reliably produces offsets.
Care Instructions:
Light: Very bright to slightly sunny – ideally with some morning or evening sun. Water: Spray 2-3 times a week or regularly soak. Always let it dry well. Humidity: Medium to high (50-70%) – spray more often in dry indoor air. Fertilizer: In spring and summer, 1-2 times per month with our special Tillandsia or orchid fertilizer in diluted form. Temperature: 16-28 °C, relatively insensitive – can tolerate short periods down to about 10 °C frost-free.
Note: This decorative hybrid is excellent for beginners. It thrives well in airy containers, on wood or stone, and reliably blooms under good conditions.
Our greenhouses are equipped with modern energy screens and double glazing to efficiently save on heating costs. Additionally, we collect rainwater over the entire roof area of 9,000 square meters and use only this water to irrigate all our crops. We collect the rainwater in underground tanks with a total volume of 600,000 liters.
Since 2007, we have been heating our entire operation with a fully automated 850 kW wood chip heating system and a 100,000-liter buffer storage tank. Environmentally friendly and CO2-neutral. Only to support during very cold winter days and nights is a conventional oil heating system available.
Since 2014, the heating has been supported by a solar thermal system with an annual yield of about 20 megawatt-hours.
In 2020, we installed a photovoltaic system with 30 kW peak and have been producing more green electricity per year than our entire operation requires.
Since 2021, we use exclusively pots for our self-produced plants that are not only 100% recyclable but are also entirely made from recycled pots. To this end, we collect all used pots that arise in our operation and have them picked up in big bags by our pot supplier Göttinger. There, the pots are cleaned and processed in a water-free recycling facility into new pots that come back to us.
