Dirt Optional: Amazing Air Plants for Wall or Tree
For outdoor lovers and botanical admirers, winter can be a challenging season. But for the folks at Flora Grubb Gardens in San Francisco, the challenge only fuels their creativity and famously alternative approach to indoor gardening.
A fresh release of holiday products reveals innovative ways to give and decorate with plants. Building on the use of their signature succulents and air plants, these designs prove how easily indoor gardening can stretch beyond the typical Christmas poinsettia, lasting well past the holidays and into the new year. Flora Grubb Gardens The nursery features a distinguished selection of succulents and tillandsia air plants. “Our inspiration was the amazing and unusual qualities of the plants themselves, and their ability to survive without roots, without soil,” Grubb says.
"We love the giftability of these inventions, and the fact that they continue to grow and bring joy far beyond the holiday season. We can’t wait to see what our customers do with them." Flora Grubb Gardens "We are plant people,” adds Grubb. “We love being near living things. During the spring, you won’t find us indoors — if we have a choice. So during the winter as we turn our attention to being indoors more and for entertaining, we work to bring the living things we want to be around inside with us.”
A collection of air plants on a wall offers a chance to enjoy the complexity and elegance of the tillandsia's structure and growth both up close and as a grouping. Flora Grubb Gardens Thigmotrope Satellite with Air Plant - $29 Grubb uses innovative pieces of steel hardware designed in collaboration with Seth Boor to secure the air plants to the wall. Flora Grubb Gardens Boor demonstrates how to use the Thigmotrope Satellite to dot a wall with tillandsia. Air plants are easily removable for watering or replacement. Be sure to install the hardware where you won't bump into it! Flora Grubb Gardens Succulent Ornament - $19 These unique holiday ornaments made from plant cuttings will last well through the winter season and beyond. After the holidays, the cuttings will happily take to planting and may even begin to sprout new roots while still hanging on the tree. Flora Grubb Gardens “Most people think of succulents as those cute rosette-shaped plants with plump leaves and minimal, if any, spines,” says Grubb. “One of their charms is how easily they root from cuttings. They’re amazingly durable and persistently beautiful, and thus perfectly amenable to being used as ornaments for a couple of months. We love how they look suspended in a tree — cutting upon cutting. What distinguishes the ornament from the tree is that when the tree comes down, the ornament can go into a pot to become a new plant on the windowsill or in the garden.” Flora Grubb Gardens Aerium Ornament - $24 Specimens of tillandsia, mosses and lichens encapsulated in glass ornaments create mini landscapes for the Christmas tree or window. Flora Grubb Gardens Grubb works with vendors to develop new shapes to best show off the plants, and stresses the importance of supporting independent businesses to fuel innovative design. Flora Grubb Gardens In the dead of winter and without any needed nourishment, you can’t help but be amazed by the beauty and tenacity of these succulents and tillandsia air plants. Flora Grubb Gardens Find joy in keeping living things close at hand while stuck indoors for the winter — with the prospect that spring is just around the corner, bringing with it new life to your outdoor garden once more.
Flora Grubb Gardens The nursery features a distinguished selection of succulents and tillandsia air plants. “Our inspiration was the amazing and unusual qualities of the plants themselves, and their ability to survive without roots, without soil,” Grubb says. 
Flora Grubb Gardens "We are plant people,” adds Grubb. “We love being near living things. During the spring, you won’t find us indoors — if we have a choice. So during the winter as we turn our attention to being indoors more and for entertaining, we work to bring the living things we want to be around inside with us.”
Flora Grubb Gardens Thigmotrope Satellite with Air Plant - $29 Grubb uses innovative pieces of steel hardware designed in collaboration with Seth Boor to secure the air plants to the wall. 
Flora Grubb Gardens Boor demonstrates how to use the Thigmotrope Satellite to dot a wall with tillandsia. Air plants are easily removable for watering or replacement. Be sure to install the hardware where you won't bump into it! 
Flora Grubb Gardens Succulent Ornament - $19 These unique holiday ornaments made from plant cuttings will last well through the winter season and beyond. After the holidays, the cuttings will happily take to planting and may even begin to sprout new roots while still hanging on the tree. 
Flora Grubb Gardens “Most people think of succulents as those cute rosette-shaped plants with plump leaves and minimal, if any, spines,” says Grubb. “One of their charms is how easily they root from cuttings. They’re amazingly durable and persistently beautiful, and thus perfectly amenable to being used as ornaments for a couple of months. We love how they look suspended in a tree — cutting upon cutting. What distinguishes the ornament from the tree is that when the tree comes down, the ornament can go into a pot to become a new plant on the windowsill or in the garden.” 
Flora Grubb Gardens Aerium Ornament - $24 Specimens of tillandsia, mosses and lichens encapsulated in glass ornaments create mini landscapes for the Christmas tree or window. 
Flora Grubb Gardens Grubb works with vendors to develop new shapes to best show off the plants, and stresses the importance of supporting independent businesses to fuel innovative design.
Flora Grubb Gardens In the dead of winter and without any needed nourishment, you can’t help but be amazed by the beauty and tenacity of these succulents and tillandsia air plants. 
Flora Grubb Gardens Find joy in keeping living things close at hand while stuck indoors for the winter — with the prospect that spring is just around the corner, bringing with it new life to your outdoor garden once more.