The local community works together to reduce waste going into the landfill and has hired a huge dumpster to deposit vegetation generated from YARD WORK. During the growing season (which is pretty much always) the garden can become overgrown in the blink of an eye. While making our contribution recently I caught a glimpse of this air plant in the brush, a recent deposit from one of the neighbors. It may have been regarded as trash by someone but I captured a treasure.
And yes I took my camera to go to the dumpster 🙂
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Patty Charles 
cool find. I just started learning about air plants as my neighbor has a room full of them.
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I just posted this!! Your comment came zinging in, lol. These are very cool plants. There are loads of varieties too. This example is a wild variety and does not survive if removed from the branch it was growing on. In my post for Hanging (way earlier this year) I have an image I took at Bok Tower where they have a curtain wall of different kinds. So very cool.
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I was outside before it got too hot, catching up on comments 🙂
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yard work sometimes is hard work, but it’s always pleasant
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Dumpster hopping – I haven’t tried that yet, you aew so far ahead on techique.
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Great capture! Next trip to the landfill my camera comes with me.
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Very observant. Wonderful idea about the dumpster for vegetation waste.
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Well done for recognizing this little clump of dried grass as an air plant, I know I would have missed it for sure and dumped my weeds right over the top of it! I wonder what other little treasures were in that dumpster?
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oh yes a person could plant a totally new garden from plants people discard from theirs!
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I love it!!! Did you save it and take it home? Sounds like a wonderful project too.
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I do have an air plant but this variety hasn’t been one that survives for me
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Are they turning it into compost and do you buy it back, like we do over here?
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yes compost is created from our waste and we do buy it back. thanks for stopping by 😉
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Awesome capture!!
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Thanks Steve!
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What a cool plant. Thanks for the photo and for the link!
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oh, you are so welcome, Steven, glad you liked the post.
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Way to be prepared for the unusual photo-op! I’m afraid with my love of plants, I’d be dumpster diving on a regular basis. I can hardly bear to throw away my excess plants and give away as many as I can.
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