Airplants

I wandered to Savers today to see if they had any nice breakable china for me to break and stick airplants to. They didn’t, but I hovered aimlessly for a bit eavesdropping on a woman in her 40s who was there with her mother. She was one of those people who can’t do thinking without talking, so the conversation ran like this:
“Mummy, what’s this? Is it for weddings? I didn’t have one at my wedding, but I don’t remember my wedding really. Went to work the next day, so my brain didn’t really realise I was married. Mummy, look at this, this is Copperart, this is. I’m going to get that, that’s collectible, you can’t get Copperart anymore because they closed, that’s really collectible. I’ll get that for a present or something. Mummy, look at this doll, it has fake eyes. No some dolls have real eyes, this one has fake ones. Mummy is that more Copperart?”

For those playing at home who have NO idea what Copperart is, I present you with this commercial:

So so so very collectible, and not at all available in $2 shops everywhere.

Once I got home I was stuck for something to attach the plants to, so after some pondering I remembered the rubbish pit in the paddock. See, this house was built in the early 1900s and being on a few acres the original owners, and a few of those who came after, used a ditch in the paddock to toss their trash into. This sounds very nasty, but it’s full of wonderful broken china and even old toys (although I think our mass excavations of the 1980s uncovered most of the choice pieces). I dug around with a stick for a bit until I uncovered some nice bits of china to mount the plants on, and here are the results.

I’ve long been a fan of Tillandsia, but have only ever found them for sale stuck to horrible fridge magnets, so finding them loose at the Garden Show was awesometacular. Did you notice how I said Tillandsia and not Airplants just then? That was me pretending to know more about them than I do – for example, I have NO idea what the names for these ones are.

While at Mitre10, I picked up a large light globe which I hope to be able to make into a terrarium for another airplant. Ahem, sorry, I meant Tillandsia.