Venue is Kedron Wavell Services Club, Chermside in Brisbane
Note it is a Saturday this year to avoid the club’s Sunday surcharges.
We have a great program this year with 2 US expert speakers and some local growers to round out the day.
Our US speakers are:
Jerry Raack has studied them for 55 years. When Jerry was a new college graduate, he received his first bromeliad as a gift from his brother. He was eager to learn more, so he joined the International Bromeliad Society. He ended up meeting bromeliad collectors throughout the world and eventually served as its president for six years. He’s also published articles, given lectures and travelled extensively in search of new bromeliads. He discovered nearly two dozen in remote places like the cloud forests of Ecuador and the highlands of the Andes Mountains in Peru. Two bromeliads, Tillandsia raackii and Tillandsia kickae, are named in his and his wife Joanne’s honour. More recently Jerry has been involved. Jerry will deliver 2 presentations:
How to use taxonomy to identify species based on the work he has been doing with Eric Gouda and Jose Manzanares assisting in preparing material for their new books over the past 3 years or so. Eric Gouda has helped me immensely to get started into that area, and all the work I have done with he and Jose in writing the descriptions for the new books has taught me a lot.
The other area Jerry has done a lot with in the past 4 years or so is in understanding how to identify and grow quite a number of Tillandsia in the subgenus Pseudovriesea. These of course all used to be in the genus Vriesea. He grows about 30 different species in this subgenus, and we in Australia should be able to grow most if not all of these. There are a number of fairly new ones Jerry has helped identify in the past 5 years.
Pam Hyatt will also return as a presenter this year. Pam is owner/principal of Bird Rock Tropicals in California., one of the largest bromeliad/tillandsia nurseries worldwide.
Pam has travelled extensively in Central and south America. She will present one habitat based talk and another on particular species complex. She is currently extremely busy preparing for the World Bromeliad Conference and the final detail of her presentations will be sorted immediately after. Count on something good!
The program is set out below.
Hoping to see you there,
Regards
John Olsen
Convenor
Tillandsia Workshop Program Saturday 20 June 2026
NOTE: ACCESS TO THE PLANT SALES AREA WILL BE LIMITED TO SELLERS FOR SET UP FROM 6AM TO THE REGISTRATION OPENING AT 8AM
AND NO FURTHER ACCESS TO ANYONE UNTIL PLANTS SALES OFFICIALLY BEGIN AT 3:30PM
6:00 – 8:00 Set up for Sellers – Sellers access only to Sales area
7:30-8:30 Registration- meet and greet. Raffle sales. Tea and Coffee available.
8:15 Raffle sales – Speakers check AV setup
8:30 Opening Welcome
8:35 – 9:15 Jerry Raack Identifying Species Lessons from Ecuador
9:15 -10:00 Jerry Racck Pseudovriesea – once were Tillandsia
Tillandsia Day 2026
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Tillandsia Day 2026 will be held on Saturday 20th June at the Kedron Wavell Service Club.
Again, we will have a great lineup of local and international speakers.
The cost is $50 for the day which includes Morning & Afternoon Tea, and Lunch.
The day will run from 8.15am to 5.00pm with bookings available through Try Bookings – use the link below
https://www.trybooking.com/DHOVG
If you have any special dietary requirements, please note these when booking so we can advise the venue.
Sadly we missed 2025 due to the Aussie Broms Conference diverting our resources.
It is happening in 2026!
For those who have registered – THANKS, For others – ITS TIME TO ACT
Register at Trybooking
https://www.trybooking.com/DHOVG
Venue is Kedron Wavell Services Club, Chermside in Brisbane
Note it is a Saturday this year to avoid the club’s Sunday surcharges.
We have a great program this year with 2 US expert speakers and some local growers to round out the day.
Our US speakers are:
Jerry Raack has studied them for 55 years. When Jerry was a new college graduate, he received his first bromeliad as a gift from his brother. He was eager to learn more, so he joined the International Bromeliad Society. He ended up meeting bromeliad collectors throughout the world and eventually served as its president for six years. He’s also published articles, given lectures and travelled extensively in search of new bromeliads. He discovered nearly two dozen in remote places like the cloud forests of Ecuador and the highlands of the Andes Mountains in Peru. Two bromeliads, Tillandsia raackii and Tillandsia kickae, are named in his and his wife Joanne’s honour. More recently Jerry has been involved. Jerry will deliver 2 presentations:
Pam Hyatt will also return as a presenter this year. Pam is owner/principal of Bird Rock Tropicals in California., one of the largest bromeliad/tillandsia nurseries worldwide.
Pam has travelled extensively in Central and south America. She will present one habitat based talk and another on particular species complex. She is currently extremely busy preparing for the World Bromeliad Conference and the final detail of her presentations will be sorted immediately after. Count on something good!
The program is set out below.
Hoping to see you there,
Regards
John Olsen
Convenor
Tillandsia Workshop Program Saturday 20 June 2026
NOTE: ACCESS TO THE PLANT SALES AREA WILL BE LIMITED TO SELLERS FOR SET UP FROM 6AM TO THE REGISTRATION OPENING AT 8AM
AND NO FURTHER ACCESS TO ANYONE UNTIL PLANTS SALES OFFICIALLY BEGIN AT 3:30PM
6:00 – 8:00 Set up for Sellers – Sellers access only to Sales area
7:30-8:30 Registration- meet and greet. Raffle sales. Tea and Coffee available.
8:15 Raffle sales – Speakers check AV setup
8:30 Opening Welcome
8:35 – 9:15 Jerry Raack Identifying Species Lessons from Ecuador
9:15 -10:00 Jerry Racck Pseudovriesea – once were Tillandsia
10:00 – 10:30 Morning Tea – review auction plants -Raffle sales
10:30 – 11:15 Pam Koide Learning from Habitat
11:15 – 12:00 Pam Koide Species complex tba
12:05 -12:45 Lunch and draw raffle
12:45 – 1:15 Chris Larson Commercial realities
1:15 – 1:45 Peter Tristram – edithae Complex
1:45 – 2:30 I did it My Way- How 3 local Growers handle their conditions
2:30- 2:45 Show and Tell Plant Id panel
2:45-3:30 Rare Plant Auction
3:30 Afternoon tea and First dibs raffle
3:40 Plant Sales Opens
5:00 Pack away and Clean up – assistance of attendees welcomed.
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Promoting fellowship and knowledge in the cultivation and propagation of bromeliads in Queensland, Australia