BROMELIADS IN TREES | SAVING THEM FROM THE LANDFILL

[@araucariasightings3247]

In my grandpas palm tree garden there used to be so many bromeliads but the raccoons have an obsession with destroying them. I am constantly trapping the raccoons and dropping them off at this local canyon. They are looking for the slugs that are hidden inside the corners of the leaves. I finally stopped replacing them most of the time because it is never ending. I also had a bunch of chamadorea stolenipheras being destroyed recently and it ended up being an opossum that was chewing the crowns off of them. I trapped him and took him up there as well. My grandpa was a fanatic and put bromeliads, Spanish moss, tillandsias and stag horns on everything. Some of the palms have stag horns wrapped around them from the ground all the way up to the crowns. Lately I have seen some mature palm and cycad collections leveled to the ground and discarded due to new homeowners moving in where they replaced them with boring plants. I saw some large encephalartos just laying on their side dying after some collector passed away but they were too large for me to salvage. It's such a shame. I always enjoy your uploads Richard. Keep them coming. If you ever see a large bunya pine that would make a great video. They are my favorite tree.

[@RichardSites]

Wow, thanks for all the commentary. This week, somebody dug up 2, large & beautiful Cat Palms (Chamadorea Cataractarum) and threw them away. Unfortunately, I just didn't have the ability to save them and no space in my yard for them. Be sure and check out the video of my 1.5 acres in Jupiter Farms where I had the space to bring all these orphans home. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2iWk3Z3dq2Ff80

[@araucariasightings3247]

@@RichardSites Thanks Richard. I will check out the Jupiter Farms video. Have a nice day.