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Description

Tillandsia 'Vincent', commonly known as the Pink Quill Plant, is a compact bromeliad that brings standout colour to your home. Its bright pink bract forms the centrepiece of the plant, rising above neat evergreen foliage and holding its colour for weeks. From this bract, delicate violet blue flowers emerge in spring or autumn.

Despite its exotic appearance, this plant remains manageable. Growing to around 20cm tall and wide, it suits modern homes where space is limited but you want excellent style. Narrow leaves form attractive rosettes, flushed with red at the base, ensuring interest even outside flowering periods.

As a rainforest native, it enjoys humid conditions and thrives particularly well in bright bathrooms and kitchens. With regular misting, it responds with healthy growth and vibrant colour. It works beautifully as a standalone feature or grouped with other tropical houseplants for a layered indoor display.

Supplied as an established houseplant in a 9cm pot, ready to plant.

Top Tips

A tip to get shy plants to flower is to let the water dry in the centre of the plant then place a plastic bag over the plant with a ripe banana inside for a week or so - the banana gives off ethylene gas which stimulates blooming.

When you have baby plants (pups) appearing at the side and the parent looks like it is starting to rot, leave the original in place, don't remove it as this will feed the growing plantlets.

Care Information

Aftercare of your Tillandsia Bromeliad:

Place your plant in bright indirect light in a warm, preferably humid room.
Mist the plant occasionally and stand in a tray of pebbles to increase humidity.
Keep the central well of the plant filled with rainwater from March to October. Over winter, keep it on the dry side, filling just occasionally and not fully.
Remember to also water the plant compost as well as the central well, leaving it just damp.
A very weak (quarter mix) of liquid houseplant feed once a month while in full growth can be poured into the rosette cup.

Pruning your Bromeliad:

No pruning is necessary, although any brown leaves can be trimmed.
Once flowering is over, leave the main rosette in place as it dies back.

Delivery Information

Our experienced team at the nursery will always carefully package and send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive once you receive and plant them. Although most plants are extremely tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme of weather conditions, we always avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme frosts or heat is forecast. We also avoid dispatching orders over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. If you have ordered a 'pre-order' item, these will be sent out as soon as possible after the quoted dispatch date and we generally ship your entire order with any pre-ordered items. Once your order has been dispatched, we will send you an email with details on how you can track it.

We send most of our orders via a fully tracked courier service with Yodel. We will send you a tracking link as soon as your order has been dispatched. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, we will not require a signature on delivery, and we ask out couriers to leave your item in a safe place ad your delivery address.

*Please note, once your item has been delivered, we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your delivery address. If you have delivery instruction and require our courier to leave your item in a specific place, please let us know - there is an option to leave a message for the courier at the checkout.

For smaller and single-item orders, we may send these via the post with Royal Mail - Tracking will not be available for orders sent via this method.

**Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

For all orders, a small delivery fee of £4.99 will be charged or spend over £49.99 for FREE Delivery!

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